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DIGIBÍS® Newsletter. No. 15. January-June, 2016

Information about enriched digitization, software for Libraries, Archives

and Museums and international standards.

An OAI-PMH aggregator

and repository that works

with DIGIHUB

SUMMARY

DIGICLICDIGIBÍS ® Newsletter

Managing DirectorTachi Hernando de Larramendi

Project DirectorXavier Agenjo Bullón

Director of Finance and AdministrationNuria Ruano Penas

IT Dept. DirectorJesús L. Domínguez Muriel

Art DirectorAntonio Otiñano Martínez

Sales DirectorJavier Mas García

Technology CoordinatorFrancisca Hernández Carrascal

AdministrationMaría Luz Ruiz Rodríguez (coord.)José María Alcega Barroeta

IT DepartmentFeli Matarranz de Antonio (coord.)

Alejandra Arri PachecoAndrés Felipe Botero ZapataÁlvaro Cuesta ViñoloJulio Diago García

Carlos Henche HernándezLuis Panadero GuardeñoRafael Roldán TejedorFernando Román Ortega

Innovation DepartmentPaulo César Juanes Hernández (coord.)

Noemí Barbero UrbanoMaría Isabel Campillejo SuárezSusana Hernández RubioMontserrat Martínez Guerra

Digitization DepartmentFrancisco Viso Parra (coord.)María José Escuté SerranoAmando Martínez CatalánJavier Ramos AltamiraRicardo Vela Alegría

Documentation DepartmentIsabel Martín Tirado

Beatriz Pascual FernándezAlicia Varela Villafranca

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Sales DepartmentJosé María Tijerín Gómez

Coordination with the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation

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GLAM APPLICATIONSProprietary DevelopmentsThe Digital Library of the Royal Academy of History is updated to DIGIBIB 9.1 4

The Virtual Library of Andalusiaupdated to DIGIBIB version 9.1 5

DIGIHUB: thematic aggregator 6

Presentation of the Félix Cañada Virtual Museum, created with DIGIMÚS 8

Cervantes, universal master: new Virtual Library 10

D I G I T I Z A T I O N SEnriched digitizationDigitization and metadata creation of the College of Lawyers of Madrid 12

Digitization and metadata creation of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation 13

Digitization and metadata creationof the Bank of Spain 14

S T A N D A R D SEuropeanaEDM Update to 5.2.7 15

NoticiasDIGIBIB Libraries at Libraries.org 16

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EDITORIAL

I n July 2016, Americanae, a thematic aggregator promoted by the SpanishAgency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) became ope -rational. This is a second step in the strategy to provide greater visibility

to the digital collections of AECID, through its Digital Library. This strategyhas been established by the Library Director, Ms Araceli García Martín.Americanae hopes to gather all the documentation about Latin America

from a growing number of specialised institutions, including the Centred’Information Scientifique et Technique (REGARDS) in Paris, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) in Berlín, the LLILAS Benson Latin AmericanStudies and Collections of the University of Texas, and the Repositorio del

Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo in Perú.Over 15 repositories thus provide access to al-most 60,000 digital objects.

DIGIHUB, aggregator and harvester of thematic OAI repositories

Americanae proves that thematic aggregation ispossible on a global scale This is because AECID has implemented DIGIHUB, a very robustsoftware, as shown by over 200 Spanish reposito-ries in Hispana, with over 6.6 million records. Any

institution that seeks to harvest information from the entire website or froma specific domain can take advantage of the power of the DIGIHUB softwareto explore the entire web or harvest accessible OAI-PMH repositories for aspecific domain.Futhermore, DIGIHUB can create a directorate of a given domain, so that

users can have online information about all available repositories, boththose that are simply accessible from the website and those that complywith the OAI-PMH protocol, which is of great interest to users. In the case of Americanae, all the information can be harvested as long

as they have an OAI-PMH repository on the website of the European Net-work of Information and Documentation on Latin America (REDIAL). DIGI-HUB not only imports the minimum Dublin Core format but also importsRDF records according to the ontology of the Europeana Data Model, whichmakes it very appropriate for the semantic web.

Americanae proves that thematic aggregation is possible on a global scale

DIGIHUB allows for harvesting informationfrom the entire website

or from OAI-PMH repositories for a specific domain

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C urrently made up of 22,814 digitisedworks, a total of 357,855 images, the Di -gital Library of the Royal Academy of His-

tory has been updated to version 9.1 of our DIGIBIB library management software.With this update, the Royal Academy of History

seeks to facilitate the dissemination of the invalu-able heritage under its responsibility. This DigitalLibrary facilitates access to different bibliogra -phic and documentary collections of the RoyalAcademy. Manuscripts, Codices, Incunabula, theArchives of Elizabeth II, Salazar y Castro, Fernán-

dez San Román, Pablo Morillo, the Count of Car -tagena, the Court Library, Large Formats, Printsand Collections of the Cartography and GraphicArts department.This Digital Library features the DIGIBIB mo -

dule, which enriches it with an OAI-PMH reposito-ry, a module that, as in all DIGIBÍS managementsystems, meets the technical requirements of Eu-ropeana and, of course, those of Hispana, whichallows the holdings of the Royal Academy of His-tory Digital Library to be automatically aggregatedand viewed on Hispana and Europeana.

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T he collections of many Andalusian librariesare available to users from the website ofthe Digital Library of Andalusia, created

over a decade ago, in 2003. Over 12,400 digitisedworks and over 115,000 multimedia objects areavailable, including manuscripts, maps, photos,videos and audio. The collection of historicalpress is specially noteworthy, with 549 titles andnearly 100,000 issues.The Virtual Library of Andalusia uses the DI-

GIBIB library management system, which standsout due to its adaptation and updating to the tech-nical requirements and standards of digital andvirtual libraries, which include Linked Open Data(LOD) and the generation of the metadata re-quired by Europeana, known as EDM (EuropeanaData Model).

The Virtual Library of Andalusia now features EDM 5.2.6

EDM 5.2.6 is one of the updates includes in DI-GIBIB version 9.1, which the Virtual Library of An-dalusia has been using since 2016. Europeana Data Model and Linked Open Data

result in user improvements: thanks to EDM,records can be harvested by Europeana and,therefore, they are accessible to a larger audience,while the use of LOD allows for enriching the in-formation of places, people, entities and subjectswith links to managed vocabularies, both nationaland international, such as datos.bne, DBpedia,WorldCat Identities, GeoNames, the SKOS subjectheading list and the ULAN vocabulary of the GettyResearch Institute.

Above, homepage of the Virtual Library of Andalusia, which provides access to the Catalogue, operating

with DIGIBIB. It shows an item displayed as a Record and the same item

in tagged MARC 21 format.

The Virtual Library of Andalucía updated to DIGIBIB version 9.1


EL TÍTULOEN VERSALITAS

D IGIBÍS bases its corporate strategy onhelping memory institutions, such as li-braries, archives and museums, in order

to make their digital heritage visible. To do this,it features proprietary developments, alwayscompliant with international standards, espe-cially those issued by ISO and W3C, in addition tothose specific to libraries (IFLA), archives (ICA)and museums (ICOM), as well as national Spa -nish adaptations or those of Autonomous Com-munities.

DIGIHUB, aggregator and harvester of thematic OAI-PMH repositories

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) hasproven effective in harvesting coded infor-mation, complying at least with DublinCore (ISO 15836:2014).In accordance with that strategy, DIGI -

BÍS has implemented, in all its pro-grams, DIGIBIB, DIGIARCH and DIGIMÚS,an OAI-PMH repository fed dynamically,so that records entered into the databas-es, whether in MARC, EAD or LIDO, areconverted to Dublin Code automatically. Going one step further, DIGIBÍS has de-veloped a software program, DIGIHUB,that is capable of harvesting and aggre-gating records in many formats, at leastin Dublin Core, in as many repositories asusers desire.

Hispana is DIGIHUB

This practice is backed by Hispana, which,thanks to DIGIHUB, is able to harvest and aggre-gate records, at least in Dublin Core, in 208repositories that provide access to 6,593,242digital objects that steadily increase Spanishproduction of digital heritage. It is also capable,from certain subsets, of forwarding this infor-

mation to Europeana and, once it becomes avai -lable, in accordance with the Europeana DataModel (EDM).

Americanae is DIGIHUB

Americanae is a platform established with thesame technological base as Hispana, made up ofdifferent applications: a metadata harvester usingthe OAI-PMH protocol, a directory of digital co -llections and an OAI-PMH repository. i.e. it is ba -sed on the same technology as Hispana but in amuch wider field, as it harvests and aggregates


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DIGIHUB is the application used by HISPANA, the large library of Spanish

virtual libraries of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, and AMERICANAE, the System for the Dissemination and Harvesting of Collections about Latin America, an OAI-PMG

aggregator and repository of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation,

a European portal that aims to gather all the documentation about Latin America existing at different institutions

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digital records worldwide, in particular from Eu-rope and the Americas. In its first months, it already provides access to

almost 60,000 digital objects from 15 repositories

and to a directorate of 54 digital collections aboutLatin America from around the world. Thematicaggregators provide a comprehensive overview ofthe topic, including open acces journals.

New thematic aggregators

As stated in this same newsletterDIGIBÍS has been awarded largecontracts for thematic aggrega-tion projects by the different Au-tonomous Communities. Theseare expected to come online inthe second half of 2016, gathe -

ring the entire heritage of li-braries, archives and museumsfrom an Autonomous Communityin a single consultation point. It isvery likely for this thematic ag-gregation technique based on theOAI-PMH and Dublin Core stan-dards to be applied progressivelyover the next few years along withthe technology from DIGIBÍS.


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T he Félix Cañada Virtual Museum, the resultof a partnership agreement between the

Gómez Pardo Foundation, the Ignacio Larra-mendi Foundation and the DIGIBÍS company,which we mentioned in previous issues, was of-ficially presented in a public event on 22 Febru-ary 2016. The event, organised by the Gómez Pardo

Foundation, ETSIME and the Félix Cañada Mu-seum itself, featuring the collaboration of theIgnacio Larramendi Foundation and the DIGIBÍScompany, was held at the auditorium of theGómez Pardo Foundation. The presentation fea-tured José Luis Parra y Alfaro, Director of theHigher Technical School of Mine Engineers, asmoderator; Benjamín Calvo Pérez, who signedthe agreement as Chair of the Gómez PardoFoundation at the time and who was able to su -pport the project until its materialisation; Car-men Díaz Rodríguez, Director of the Félix Caña-da Museum; Luis H. de Larramendi Martínez,Chair of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation;and Francisca Hernández Carrascal, Consultantat DIGIBÍS.Three people who were closely involved in

this project were also present: Félix Cañada,Founder and Benefactor of the Museum thatbears his name; Alfonso Maldonado, Commis-sioner of the Grant; and Tachi Hernando de La -rramendi Martínez, Managing Director of DIGI -BÍS. There were also words in the memory of Car-los Herce, former Museum Director, who su -pported and promoted innovation in the FélixCañada Museum until his death.

Few museums are harvested by Hispana and Europeana

This Virtual Museum, produced by DIGIBÍS,uses the DIGIMÚS museum management system,

Presentation of the Félix Ca created with DIGIMÚS

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an online application rigorously updated to inter-national museological standards (LIDO), that su -pports Linked Open Data technology (LOD) –as allcurrent DIGIBÍS management products– and in-corporates an OAI-PMH repository in compliancewith the Europea na Data Model. This has made itpossible for the Félix Cañada Virtual Museum tobe included in and, therefore, be accessible fromHispana and Europeana. These two aggregatorsof cultural content currently harvest very few mu-seums and the Félix Cañada Virtual Museum isone of them.As a University Museum of Art, attached to the

Faculty of Mines, the Félix Cañada Museum facedissues with making itself visible to the public atlarge. Thanks to the DIGIMÚS features men-tioned, the remarkable collection of paintings,sculptures, drawings, prints, decorative arts andfurniture hosted by this museum and collected byFélix Cañada Guerrero, doctor in mine engineer-ing, the Félix Cañada Virtual Museum significant-ly increases not only its visibility but also its acce -

ssibility and dissemination at the national andinternational levels.Another one of the DIGIMÚS features im-

plemented by this Virtual Museum are thehigh-resolution viewer and the 3D objectviewer. This tool also makes it one of the few mu-

seums that offer users this visualisation for-mat, perhaps being the only one in the coun-try configured as a digital museum. Visitorswill be able to see the detail of brushstrokesin a picture scanned at a very high resolution

or rotate and enlarge a bronze or porcelain statuescanned in 3D.In short, browsing the Félix Cañada Virtual Mu-

seum transcends its physical location, making it-self available to any user with a computer or amobile electronic device.

These images show a full record of one of the digital objects of the museum, which shows the location map; to the left of these lines, the 3D viewer, which features, below, on the same page, the full record to which the figure belongs, and several close-ups of the same figure in a slightly overhead view.


T he Ignacio Larramendi Foundation and DI-GIBÍS have decided to commemorate the400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de

Cervantes by creating a microsite devoted to thispersonality. It employs similar techniques tothose used in the microsites of the Polymath Vir-tual Library, from that devoted to MenéndezPelayo to the one featuring “Science and Techno -logy in the American Enterprise”, introduced in2015.The work has taken place in parallel to the new

“Virtual Library on Enlightened Travelling Scien-tists” and, to complete it, version 9.X of the DI-GIBIB software was used as a test bench andshowcase of all the new projects and software byDIGIBÍS.

Aggregation techniques

As for all projects of the Foundation, bibliographicinformation is added using a specific programcreated by DIGIBÍS for the purpose of adding it tothe database created for this purpose. All this in-formation is later catalogued in the descriptionmodule in RDA/MARC, which dynamically con-verts it to the Dublin Core format, feeding an OAI-PMH repository at the same time.The records created feature extensive use of

value vocabularies, in compliance with LinkedOpen Data technology, including: datos.bne.es,DBpedia, Deutschen Nationalbibliothek data.bnf.fr, Library of Congress Linked Data Serviceand WorldCat FAST.

Linking techniques

As in other projects, field 500 of the MARC formathas been used imaginatively, including, accordingto DBpedia ontology, the following tags: Editor,Spouse of, Publishers, Influenced by, Participant,Related to, and others. Thanks to these tech-niques, users can browse from Cervantes’ works

to authority records of the publishers thatbrought to light his works or the authors thatgradually published biographies of the great au-thor of Don Quixote, starting with Gregorio Ma -yans y Siscar.They are also related to a wide range of websites

that cover a spectrum ranging from Wikipedia tothe many projects that have been dedicated to himon his 400th anniversary.


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Picture of the Royal Spanish Academy attributed to Juan de Jáuregui until Lafuente Ferrari found ita forgery in 1948. In the opposite page, engraving by Pedro

de Hortigosa from a drawing by Luis de Madrazo for an edition of Don Quixote

of 1859. Cervantes’ signature can be seen under the effigy

Cervantes, universal maste

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Records of first editions

NOVELS: La Galatea, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijotede la Mancha, Segunda parte del ingenioso ca-ballero don Quijote de la Mancha, Novelas ejem-plares, La gitanilla, El amante liberal, Rinconete yCortadillo, La española inglesa, El licenciado Vidri-era, La fuerza de la sangre, El celoso extremeño, Lailustre fregona, Las dos doncellas, La señora Cor-nelia, El casamiento engañoso, El coloquio de losperros, Los trabajos de Persiles and Sigismunda.THEATRE: El trato de Argel, La Numancia, Ocho

comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos, El gallardo

español, La casa de los celos, Los baños de Argel,El rufián dichoso, La gran sultana, El laberinto deamor, La entretenida, Pedro de Urdemalas, Eljuez de los divorcios, El rufián viudo, La elecciónde los alcaldes de Daganzo, La guarda cuidadosa,El vizcaíno fingido, El retablo de las maravillas, Lacueva de Salamanca, El viejo celoso.POETRY: Viaje del Parnaso.ATTRIBUTED WORKS: La conquista de Jerusalén

por Godofre de Bullón, La soberana Virgen deGuadalupe, La cárcel de Sevilla, Los habladores,El hospital de los podridos, La tía fingida.In total, 109 works were catalogued and made

available to the public.

Aggregator: everything published in one page

One of the most important values of this microsite isthat it includes the pages published on the Internetthis year. We believe that it is the only resource thatgroups and catalogues them, using the techniquesmentioned above, into a single page. This will be ofgreat value to researchers and the curious.

Introduction texts of the Virtual Library

As in other virtual libraries, this microsite fea-tures “Introductions”, which, in this case, coverthe Chair of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation,Luis Hernando de Larramendi, and the ManagingDirector of DIGIBÍS, Tachi Hernando de Larra-mendi, as well as an introductory presentation,which in this case has featured the voice of ourpolymaths. Thus, the text by Menéndez Pelayo ti-tled “Cultura Literaria de Miguel de Cervantes yelaboración del ‘Quijote’” is presented, as well asthe aforementioned text by Mayans y Siscar Vidade Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, which waspublished in his Complete Works, a CD-ROM bythe Valencian Library and the Ignacio LarramendiFoundation, which can be accessed through theValencian Digital Library (BIVALDI).



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S ince late 2015, DIGIBÍS has been workinghard on the digitization of over 18,000 do -cuments, including Deeds, Files and Books

of Incorporations, maintained by the Illustrious Co -llege of Lawyers of Madrid.

The College of Lawyers of Madrid, present inHispana since around 2011, hired the specialisedservices of DIGIBÍS both for an appropriate digiti-zation of the fragile doc-uments under its custodyand a correct generationof the metadata essen-tial to disseminate its co -llections in Hispana andEuropeana, including:Dublin Core, METS withPREMIS, METSRights,MARC-XML, Eu ro peanaSemantic Elements, Eu -ropeana Data Model andISO2709.In the future, once the

digitization and the gen-eration of the corre-sponding metadata ha -ve been completed, thedocuments will be avail-able on the website ofthe College.

Digitization and metadata creation ofthe College of Lawyers of Madrid

Strong points:digitization of

fragile documents and generation

of correct metadata

Above, a record of the Madrid College of Lawyers Library harvested by the

national aggregator HISPANA. Below, a search about this Library in Europeana.

I URIS Digital, the Virtual Library of the RoyalAcademy of Jurisprudence and Legislation,continues to expand its digital catalogue of

works. On this occasion, 15,000 new imageshave been added, corresponding to 27 differentitems. DIGIBÍS, which has also produced this dig-ital library, has been the one in charge of the digi -tization process and the corresponding metadatacreation.The IURIS Digital Library uses the DIGIBIB li-

brary management system, which allows this vir-tual library to have an OAI-PMH repository har-vestable by national and international aggrega-tors. Thus, the new digital objects will be har-vested by Hispana and Europeana, once theyhave been catalogued, with no further action bylibrarians.DIGIBÍS, always keeping up with the updates

of standards and protocols, generated the digiti-zation, the metadata currently required for har-vesting –and, therefore, dissemination– as wellas preservation, such as DublinCore METS with PREMIS andMETSRights, and the EuropeanaData Model (EDM).Among the works digitised, which

are already available on the IURISDigital website, we can mention His-toria de la Revolución Francesa inthree volumes (1898-1900) or Vo-cabulario de la economía: ensayopara fijar la nomenclatura y los prin-cipales conceptos de esa cienciafrom 1882.



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First results page of Iuris Digital in Europeana, the great European library. Cover of the edition in three

volumes of 1898-1900 of Historia de la Revolución Francesa

by Michelet and cover of Vocabulario de la economía, by

Piernas y Hurtado, published in 1882.



I n 2016, DIGIBÍS began the digitization of therare materials kept at the Library Bank of Spain.This institution is very aware of the need to pre-

serve its significant collection as well as to dissem-inate it to all people.The 700,000 pages to be digitised over four

years, extendable by 2, show the magnitude andsignificance of this project, especially taking intoaccount the importance of this institution and its li-brary stock, made up of over 326,000 volumes,many of them of great interest.

An institution very aware of the needs of preservation and dissemination

The value of the works it preserves as a source ofinformation about economics, politics and law, of-ten linked to its unique nature, their preservationrequirements and their consultation require-ments, have made the Bank of Spain considerdigitization necessary for a dual purpose: pre-serving and disseminating its collections.

Over an extendable period of four years, DI-GIBÍS will carry out an enriched digitizationwhich will undoubtedly lead to benefits in bothobjectives. To select the works to be digitised,the Bank of Spain will take into account their ma-terial and bibliographic value, their intellectualcontents and their relationship with the history ofthe Bank of Spain, banking and economic historyin general.To prepare for this long digitization and meta-

data-creation task, DIGIBÍS has given the Bank ofSpain a page to follow up on the project, based onits DIGIBIB library management system, whichwill lead to better results more appropriate for theneeds of the project.


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On the left, a characteristic auction at the Bank of Spain in Madrid. Below, cover of one of the digitised books, corresponding to the tenth Meeting held in 1842.


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V ersion 5.2.7 of the Europeana Data Mod-el (EDM) was published on 25 April 2016.The new EDM version includes a very

important change as it introduces the propertyedm:intermediateProvider, which can be used toindicate “the name or identifier of the intermediateorganisation that selects, collates, or curates datafrom a Data Provider that is then aggregated by aProvider from which Europeana harvests”. In theaggregation chain, the Intermediate Provider isan organisation different from the Data Providerand the actual Provider.

This Property was very necessary to respondto the different data-aggregation schemes thathave been appearing in the Europeana ecosys-tem, where specialised aggregators (such as Eu-ropeana Sounds), national aggregators (such asHispana) and technical aggregators that explorenew ways for institutions to send content to Euro-peana (such as Europeana Cloud) coexist. It isalso worth noting that the Europeana BusinessPlan 2016 introduces the concept of expert hubs,which seeks to change the current hierarchicalaggregation model and transform it into a networkof hubs that share services and data in a web-centric fashion. Thus, objective 3 of the Europeana Business

Plan is to “Innovate the way we aggregate mate-rial”, which makes it necessary to establish thenetwork of expert hubs and improve data inte-gration. This same idea to explore the capabili-ties of web services has led to the introduction of

class svcs:Service in EDM 5.2.7, taken from theSIOC (Services Ontology Module), which is de-fined as “a web service associated to a site orpart of it”. This class is used to indicate the exis-tence of a specific protocol or a certain profile tobe used.Likewise, and following goal 2 of the Euro-

peana Business Plan 2016, to “Improve dataquality”, the necessary components have beenadded to the dcterms:temporal property, alongwith other properties such as dc:type, dc:sub-ject, dc:coverage and dcterms:spatial, at least

one of which must be present. The list of manda-tory elements in EDM can be found quickly insection 2: “Overview of the properties in eachclass” of the document Europeana Data ModelMapping Guidelines, v.2.3, also published on 25April 2016.On 30 May 2015, the document Enhancing the

Europeana Data Model (EDM), drafted by Valen-tine Charles and Antoine Isaac and also known asthe EDM White Paper, was published. It discusseshow the model should continue to grow, goingfrom managing not only data about cultural he -ritage but also data about organisations (Organi-zation Profile), datasets (Dataset Profile, collec-tions (Collections Profile) and technical metadata(Technical Metadata Profile). The materialisationof this evolution must be followed with a differentdocument, frequently updated by the Europeanateam, the EDM Roadmap, which also provides anidea about the future evolution of EDM.

The EDM class hierarchy: EDM classes in blue; classes in white belong to other schemas, which are specified in the prefix.



L ibraries.org, an international library direc-torate created by Marshall Breeding, an in-dependent consultant, features 35 virtual li-

braries using DIGIBIB software in its database. Marshall Breeding is the creator and editor of

Library Technology Guides and libraries.org, aglobal directory of libraries. He writes a monthlycolumn in the technical journal Computers in Li-braries and directs the Smart Libraries Newsletter

published by the American Library Association(ALA). He is the author of the annual Library Sys-tems Reports, published by the Library Journalsince 2002 and he was written seven books todate, the latest being Cloud Computing for Li-braries.Among the most well known digital libraries

featured in libraries.org, we can mention the Vir-tual Library of Historic Press, the Virtual Library ofBibliographic Heritage, the Virtual Library of An-dalusia and the Library of the Royal Academy ofHistory. DIGIBIB is a software program that allows for

online publishing of digitised heritage work andthat, through an OAI repository, shares these re-sources on large aggregators such as Hispana,Europeana and OAISTER. It also uses Linked Open Data technology,

which enables it to link the most important vocab-ularies, such as VIAF, DBpedia, datos.bne.es orSubject heading Lists in SKOS.

In the case of Europeana, the Larramendi Vir-tual Library is a case study of the use of the Eu-ropeana Data Model (EMD) in addition to the vo-cabularies mentioned above.

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