The Finnish National Library –Managing the complexity

Dr. Kai Ekholm

Our users and customers

• Library network• Research and education in general

– Researchers – Students– Schools

• Memory organisations• The book business and content providers • Partners• Cultural audience, life-long learning

Serving

• 21 university libraries• 25+ polytechnic libraries• 50+ special libraries• 100 + public libraries (2006- officially)

Collection strategy

• long-term planning for digitizing • collection policy based on cooperation (libraries, other memory organizations)• acceptability of collections - integration• policy for the preservation of the national

heritage• national coordination of the long-term

preservation of electronic material

The digital value chain in HUL

Customer services

Copyrighted materials

Commercial materials,Charging arr. (Pay per view/Contracts)

DRM = Digital Rights Management’

Content productionAcquisition Delivery Archiving

PortalDOMS

Web, e-deposit

DigitizingFinELib

DOD

Libraries’ technical platform, ”the Triangle”

NELLIInformation

Retrieval Portal

LINNEALibrarySystem

DOCUMENTARCHIVE

NELLI PORTAL

METALIB SFXLDAP

LINNEA LIBRARY SYSTEM

VOYAGER

ILLZ39.50

DOKUMENT ARCHIVE

ENCOMPASS

DIGI / Mikkeli

WEB ARCHIVE

”TRIANGELI”

Cruising the triangle during a search

Tekijä(t): Hietala, Marjatta Nimeke: An innovative city Julkaisussa: Futura. – Helsinki (jne.)

issn=0785-5494date=1999 volume=18 issue=3aulast=Hietala aufirst=Marjatta title=An innovative city…

OpenURLresolving

serverInnovative activity is based on new viewpoints, new question settings. A successful innovation must break trough barriers and cross thresholds. Culture is an important factor promoting innovations. Our own era has specialized too much…

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DOMS, digital object management system

• Digital legal deposits• Digitisation of old collections (images, maps,

sound recordings etc.)• Theses and dissertations• Digital publications (journals etc.)• Learning materials• Etc.

DOMS, digital object management system

• Long-term preservation• Flexible metadata• Good search properties• Access management in all situations• Interoperability (the triangle, e-learning ,

publishing systems)• Standards: OpenURL, Z39.50, OAI, various

metadata formats.

DOMS, digital object management system

• ENCompass for Digital Collections by Endeavor Information Systems

• Open to public in late 2004

THANKS !