Development and Cooperation Projects
The National Library of Finland is responsible and/or involved in several national and international development and cooperation projects. Many of these projects are focused on electronic publications, especially improving access to them and long-term preservation. The objective is to build tools and to open and maintain new online services.
Current development projects
National
- Infrastructure for Institutional Repositories 2009-2010
- MARC 21 format 2006-2014
- National Digital Library 2008-2011
- National Union Catalogue (LINDA) 2008-2013
- National Semantic Web Ontology Project (FinnONTO) 2003-2012
- Sounds of the century digitisation project 2005-2010
International
- Europeana 2009-
- Europeana Travel 2009-2011
- Identifying and Explaining Digital Objects (Nordbib WP3) 2009-
Ongoing cooperation projects
Partnerships
The National Library improves its services by networking with both national and international actors. Moreover, the Library has formed strategic partnerships for mutual benefit. The aim of the partnerships is to develop services for the whole consortium or library sector. A partnership can focus on a specific problem or a broader range of issues. Partnerships are an effective way to develop and build new services, and they facilitate quick launching of the results for all customers.
Partnerships have been used within the Library Network Services, e.g., in connection with the licensing of online materials and the Nelli Information Retrieval Portal.
Research
Research that helps develop the core functions of the National Library is promoted in cooperation with the Faculties of Library Science at various universities.
