The document outlines plans for a National Digital Library in Finland to aggregate and provide access to the digital collections of libraries, archives, and museums. The goals are to [1] create a common user interface by 2011 for searching across these collections, [2] digitize important cultural heritage materials, and [3] develop long-term preservation solutions. It will work with Europeana to increase the visibility and impact of Finnish cultural collections internationally. Realizing this vision requires national coordination, common standards, and sustainable funding and resources.

1. National Digital Library – Ensuring of availability of electronic information resources of libraries, archives and museum now and in the future Minna Karvonen 13.5.2009

4. National Digital Library National Archives+ provincial archives = National Archive Service National Board of Antiquities/ National Museum of Finland Finnish National Gallery Finnish Museum of Natural History Regional museums Regional art museums National specialised museums Other museums Public libraries Special libraries National Library of Finland Municipal archives, other public administration archives and other archives National audio-visual archive Libraries in educational institutions Libraries in higher education institutions Government-subsidized and other private archives

5. Monitoring group Steering group Availability section Technical expert group Long-term preservation section Working groups Working groups Working groups Working groups Working groups National Digital Library: development organisation

6. National Digital Library Back-end systems restricted materials unrestricted materials Europeana and other external systems National long-term preservation system library, archive, museum systems and other systems metadata submission information packages (object + metadata) metadata dissemination information packages metadata National user interface metadata search search object search object search Users

11. National Digital Library & Europeana Europeana National Digital Libraries: e.g. BAM, Culture.fr, Culturaitalia, CIDEC, National Digital Library of Finland Sectoral & Cross Sectoral Portals: Athena, Apenet, EFG, STERNA etc. Individual services of libraries, archives and museums