La colaboración entre la BNE y Telefónica ha sido objeto de interés en la reunión de Europeana. Durante dicha reunión se organizaron diferentes talleres y la BNE participó en el de “Colaboraciones entre el sector público y el privado” (Public-Private Partnerships). Este interés por el convenio de la BNE con Telefónica quedó de manifiesto en el reciente informe The new Renaissance de un “Comité de Sabios” de la Comisión Europea. En la reunión la intervención de José Luis Bueren se centró en explicar cómo se articula el Convenio de Colaboración, qué se ha logrado hasta ahora, qué se prevé alcanzar en 2012 y las conclusiones de esta colaboración.

1. BNE-Telefónica: Strategic
Partner Agreement
José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo
December 6th, 2011

2. Index
01 Flash information about the BNE
02 The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
03 The Agreement with Telefónica
04 Conclusions
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3. General information about the BNE
• Created in 1711 as Royal Public Library
• Becomes the National Library in 1836
• Emblematic Headquarters building at the heart of Madrid
since 1893
• Legal Deposit since 1957
• Autonomous institution since 1991
• Second building complex in Alcalá de Henares opens in 1992
(six storage towers, one deserved by robots + usual services to
users)
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4. The BNE in figures
• Over 26 million pieces of which some 9 million are books
• More than 60% are stored in the Alcalá de Henares building
• A monthly average of 20 tons of new entries through Legal
Deposit
• More than 400.000 new monographers per year
• Close to one million new items per year
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5. Special collections
• More than 30.000 manuscripts
• 1.600 medieval codex
• 3.100 incunabula
• 19.000 pictures
• Around 600.000 engravings
• 1.000.000 photographs
• 700 manuscript maps
• 15.000 XIV-XIXth century maps
• 505.000 muscial scores
• 100.000 videos
• More than 600.000 sound records
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6. The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
• Launched in January 2008 with 10.000 items
• Currently has around 55.000 titles
• It supports OAI-PMH
• Image format : TIFF, JPG and PDF using DigiTool software,
with SOLR search engine
• Metadata: Marc21, DC, METS, ESE.
• Different selection criteria for the content
• The whole BDH is accessible in TEL, Europeana and Hispana
• January 2011 > Integration of the historical press application
• 14.000.000 digital images.
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7. The portal: functionalities
• Simple and advanced search.
• Full text search (OCR).
• Collection browsing.
• Facets.
• Multilingual.
• Sound records reproduction.
• 2.0 Functionalities:
• Share in Facebook and Twitter, comments, votes, send by email, other
user have seen, new document alerts, federated search in external
sources (Hispana, Europeana), implementing BDH in other webs…
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10. Strategic partner agreement
• Signed in 2008 as a result of successful launching (visits,
downloading and media coverage)
• 10.000.000 euros contribution:
• Scope: 200.000 works / 25.000.000 digital images by the end of 2012.
• Conditions:
• Telefónica can deduct this contribution from Corporate Tax
• The logo of Telefónica must appear in the Digital Library Portal and
Telefónica’s sponsorship has to be mentioned in any communication of
the Library regarding the mass digitisation project
• Exclusivity of this agreement in terms of other telecommunication
companies which could be considered as competitors of Telefónica
• Promotional activities
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11. Special benefits for the BNE
• The main benefit for the Library is the funding of the mass
digitisation activities
• The BNE is the only owner of the digital images (both access and
master copies)
• It is unique responsible for the digitised content and for the technical
specifications
• Quality of the content and of the process is assured as long as it is
done under the Library’s criteria and needs
• Access to the digital objects depends only of the BNE
• Expertise of Telefónica + administrative management
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12. Work done
• Around 50.000 titles digitised: manuscripts, XVI-XXth century
books, musical scores, historic press, maps, photographs,
engravings.
• Around 15.000.000 digitised pages.
• Promotion: Interactive Quijote – Interactive Leonardo.
• We can focus on many other activities.
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13. Work to be done
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14. Conclusions
• Great success: number of users, quality/quantity of the work,
experience acquired, relationship with Telefónica:
• 1.400.000 documents downloaded in 2010.
• Necessity of assuring funding.
• What have we learnt?
• The importance of planning: 25.000.000/200.000 = 125
• Impact in the Library processes > all the Services are implied in this
project > more than 30.000 pages/day digitized.
• Institutional support.
• Long term preservation.
• Take advantage of others expertise.
• Access and visibility.
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15. Thanks!
Pº de Recoletos 20 -22
28071 Madrid
España
T +34 915 807 7775
www.bne.es
http://bdh.bne.es
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