Now Launched: the European Library Standards Handbook | LIBER

"The Europeana Libraries project is working to build a robust aggregation model based on The European Library, which will make metadata to digital content from research and national libraries across Europe available on both Europeana and the new European Library portal. This handbook explains to data providers how this aggregation infrastructure can be used. The European Library Standards handbook serves as a handbook for libraries providing data to The European Library and other services such as Europeana. The document, produced as part of Europeana Libraries, clarifies the advantages of outsourcing specific data-provision tasks to an aggregator and provides a complete description of the process...."