PSNC Digital Libraries Team

This week the PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation (PIONIER DLF) has submitted to the DART-Europe data about another Polish e-theses and dissertations (ETDs) – the number increased by more than 700 publications, reaching a total value of 1 102. This is the credit of 5 new digital libraries that have decided to pass on information about their ETDs .

Presently 11 digital libraries are transferring their data through the PIONIER DLF to the DART-Europe portal:

1. ABC Kraków
2. Biblioteka Cyfrowa Katedry Lingwistyki Formalnej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
3. Biblioteka Cyfrowa UMCS
4. Dolnośląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
5. Księgozbiór Wirtualny Federacji Bibliotek Kościelnych FIDES
6. Podkarpacka Biblioteka Cyfrowa
7. Podlaska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
8. Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
9. Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
10. Zachodniopomorska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
11. Zielonogórska Biblioteka Cyfrowe

These libraries give access to Polish ETDs from 26 universities and 2 scientific institutes.

We would like to thank digital libraries listed above for successful cooperation in dissemination of Polish scientific work and also encourage more libraries to join this group.

Issue 3/2009 of the PIONIER Magazine, published by PIONIER Consortium and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center is available on-line in the PSNC Digtial Libraries Team Repository. This issue is devoted mostly to digital libraries.

On January 20, 2010 PSNC became the official partner of the DART-Europe project. The aim of this project is to facilitate in the access and use of European e-theses and dissertations. This aim is realized by the aggregation of the metadata of such works available on-line and by allowing to access and search in the aggregated information via a dedicated portal.

At the moment this portal gives access to about 122 000 of full-text research thesis from 208 universities localized in 16 European countries.

Data from Poland is delivered to the DART-Europe Portal via the PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation. In the beginning of January 2010 information about over 250 e-theses from 13 universities were transferred by this way. All institutions interested in cooperation with DART-Europe via the Federation are asked to contact us! Access to the DART-Europe portal and the data transfer to the portal via the Federation is free of charge.

On the 6th of January 2010 in the morning broadcast of the radio Emaus at 9:35 you could listen to an interview made by presenter Piotr Jóźwik with Marcin Werla from the PSNC Digital Libraries Team. The interview was related to the connection of the Polish digital libraries to Europeana, carried out during the EuropeanaLocal project.
Clicking below you can listen to this interview:

EuropeanaLocal – Interview in the Radio Emaus

Besides of the interview the fact of connection of the Polish Digital Libraries Federation to the Europeana, with significant help of the creators of Polish digital libraries, was mentioned in several Polish Press Agency news and also Polish Catholic Information Agency and also in many regional information services and popular Internet portals, including:

“Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa w Europeanie”

• wiadomosci.onet.pl
• ksiazki.wp.pl

“ŚBC posiada forum umożliwiające pracownikom współtworzących ją
instytucji oraz czytelnikom komunikację i wzajemną pomoc – techniczną i
merytoryczną. Wykorzystuje oprogramowanie dLibra; rozpowszechnione w
kilkudziesięciu bibliotekach cyfrowych, zrzeszonych w Federacji
Bibliotek Cyfrowych, a udostępniających łącznie w sieci ponad 260 tys.
publikacji.”

“Zbiory biblioteki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego w portalu Europeana”

• wiadomosci.onet.pl
• wiadomosci.gazeta.pl

“…za upartą realizację marzenia o stworzeniu polskiego systemu
rozproszonych bibliotek i włączenia go do europejskiej sieci wielkie
uznanie należy się Zespołowi Bibliotek Cyfrowych Poznańskiego Centrum
Superkomputerowo-Sieciowego, który przygotowuje i ulepsza informatyczne
narzędzie, koordynuje funkcjonowanie polskich bibliotek w sieci krajowej
i międzynarodowej.”

“Podkarpackie książki w europejskiej sieci”

• rzeszow.gazeta.pl

“Zasoby Podkarpackiej Biblioteki Cyfrowej, wchodzące w skład Federacja
Bibliotek Cyfrowych, zostały udostępnione w największej bibliotece
cyfrowej w Europie.”

“Księgozbiór Wirtualny FIDES w Europeanie”

• info.wiara.pl

“12 grudnia 2009 r. zbiory cyfrowe umieszczone w Księgozbiorze
Wirtualnym Federacji FIDES stały się widoczne w portalu Europeana dzięki
uczestnictwu w serwisie Federacji Bibliotek Cyfrowych, wraz z ponad 250
tysiącami obiektów z polskich bibliotek cyfrowych.”

From 11 December 2009, in the European Digital Library – Europeana, there are avaialble resources of dozens of Polish digital libraries congregated around the PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation. These resources include over 250 000 digital objects made available by the hundreds of cultural and scientific institutions from different parts of Poland. Among them are both treasures of our national heritage, as well as interesting regional materials or modern scientific and educational publications. The vast majority of publications is available to all Internet users without any restrictions.

Europeana, one of the flagship initiatives of the European Commission, is a web portal which is point of access to digital versions of cultural and scientific heritage. The portal is available from November 2008. In the official launch day it allowed to reach some of 2 million digital objects scattered throughout the Europe. In December 2009, after the data ingestion from the Polish digital libraries, the number of objects in the Europeana exceeded 5 million, of which ca. 5.5% comes from the Polish digital libraries. According to current development plans, Europeana is projected to reach 10 million objects in July 2010. Portal performs a critical role in providing and promoting the cultural heritage of European countries and it is important for Poland to be adequately represented in Europeana.

Polish digital content aggregator for Europeana is Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, the operator of the PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation and the PIONIER Network operator.

The PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation (PIONIER DLF) integrates network of Polish digital libraries, which have been systematically created since 2002. PIONIER DLF was launched in June 2007 by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. PIONIER DLF currently provides search within descriptions of over 315 000 digital objects. Moreover, it maintaines an extensive database about Polish digital libraries, as well as it is a key element in digitization coordination in the Polish digital libraries. It is worth mentioning that about 10 000 new objects each month is made available by digital libraries connected to the PIONIER DLF . By PIONIER DLFs connection with Europeana, these objects will be more visible and promoted worldwide.

From 4th to 6th on November 2009 in Poznań, Poland there was the i3 Conference: Internet – infrastructures – innovations. During the first day of the conference, in the session titled “INTERNET: Active Internet” Agnieszka Lewandowska gave a presentation titled “Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych – interoperacyjność zaawansowanych usług sieciowych realizowana na skalę krajową” (Digital Libraries Federation – the interoperability of advanced network services implemented on a national scale). The presentation was prepared by Agnieszka Lewandowska, Tomasz Parkoła and Marcin Werla from the PSNC Digital Libraries Team. You can see the recording from the presentation at the conference website.

On the 2nd of March, 2009 around 1:30 PM the total number of publications in Polish digital libraries connected to the DLF reached 200 000.

The publication number 200 000 is the Dziennik Polski issue from the 26th of August, 1967 r. published on-line by the Małopolska Digital Library.

As the total number of publications chart shows, the number of digital objects available in the DLF has doubled in the period from December 2007 to March 2009. Congratulations to all Polish digital libraries creators and contributors!

On 16th of September 2008 the Digital Libraries Federation website was updated. The new version of the DLF has an improved look and navigation structure. We have also introduced several minor improvements, aimed to make using of the DLF easier and more intuitive. We encourage you to check the new version and hope to recieve some comments about it.

The DLF update was associated with its presentation on the European Conference on Advanced Research and Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008) beeing held in Aarhus, Denmark. The presentation was related to a conference paper titled  Enrichment of European Digital Resources by Federating Regional Digital Libraries in Poland.

InternetStandard  opublikował dziś artykuł na temat polskich bibliotek cyfrowych. Jest w nim m.in. mowa o FBC i dLibrze. Zachęcamy do lektury

Od dziś użytkownicy Federacji Bibliotek Cyfrowych mogą przeszukiwać również zawartość kolekcji “Zasoby polskie” Domeny Internetowych Repozytoriów ICM – ponad 120 publikacji.

Łączna liczba publikacji dostępnych w FBC kilka dni temu przekroczyła 150 000.