Presentation on Multi-lingual sources: progress and problems by Louise Edwards.

1. Multi-lingual sources:
progress and problems
Louise Edwards

2. Even getting here was
linguistically challenging!

3. The European Library and
CERL are partners in the
CENDARI project

4. What is The European
Library?
 Project from 1996
 Service launch in 2005
 All national libraries of Council of Europe
 Extending to research libraries
 Digital and non-digital
• 200 million bibliographic records
• 19 million digitised objects
• 4% national library collections are digitised

5. Over 400 languages!

6. Issues for multi-lingual
libraries and YOU, the
user
 Interface
 Search and browse
 Refining the search
 Content
 Where we go from
here

8. Interface

9. Multi-lingual interface in
36 languages

10. Browsing

11. Browsing and visualising
language holdings

12. Collection descriptions –
an unexploited asset

13. Browsing collection descriptions
in 36 languages

14. Searching and filtering

15. Searching by a name in
all its forms…

17. Checking it’s the right
person…

18. Bringing together different forms
of place name…

19. Subject searching

20. Linking subjects in English,
French and German

22. But not everything is
mapped…

23. Full text

24. Full text indexing mostly
on newspapers

25. Future developments
 Need to scale
• Machine matching of terms
• Opening the data
• Linking it via the web
• User analysis – how to
users interact with
multilingual materials?
• Social tagging in different
languages
• Collaborative translation
• Sharing translations back
 Whilst still preserving
quality

27. Thank you
Louise Edwards
louise.edwards@kb.nl