Partnership

Benefits

Digital Libraries Federation combines virtual libraries and repositories and provides new, advanced network functions and services implemented in this environment.

We encourage all institutions sharing their collections on-line to start cooperation with us.

Basic benefits of cooperation with the Digital Libraries Federation:

promotion of digital collections among users of the FBC portal by increasing the visibility of digital resources,
data transfer using FBC to external services, such as Europeana and the Distributed Catalog of Digital Libraries (KaRo),
taking into account the digitization plans of the institution and using them in the automatic system to prevent duplication of digitization of the same objects in different centres,
locating digital objects using permanent FBC links.

To facilitate the start of cooperation, we have prepared a set of information describing the organizational and formal aspects of cooperation with FBC and the principles of data transfer and cooperation with Europeana.

By establishing cooperation with us, you enable millions of users from around the world to access your collections. This is a great opportunity to promote and reuse them!

How to join to FBC?

Who can join FBC?

FBC resources are co-created by many scientific and public institutions, such as universities, libraries, archives, museums and centres. There are also cases of FBC cooperation with private individuals who already make their collections available online, but they want to show them more widely.

Formal aspects

From the formal and organizational point of view, the cooperation of digital libraries and repositories with the FBC service is very simple. It does not require any fees, transfer of digital publications or additional effort from repository administrators.

All you need to do is provide the FBC administrators with the URL that allows you to download data from the repository via the OAI-PMH protocol (i.e. the address of the OAI-PMH interface of this repository). In this respect, the FBC service works in the same way as other services based on OAI-PMH repositories, e.g. OAIster.

As part of the cooperation, FBC periodically automatically downloads metadata of shared digital objects and stores them in a local directory.

Descriptions (metadata) of digital objects available on-line and optionally their thumbnails, files with content (for the purposes of indexing and searching content from the FBC level) and descriptions (metadata) of objects to be digitized are obligatory downloaded. It is these metadata downloaded from distributed repositories that are the basis for the operation of the FBC service.

Users can search local digital libraries, and at the same time, through FBC, they have access to distributed search, thanks to which they receive a single list of search results containing resources from multiple repositories.

Attention:

PSNC (the institution responsible for FBC) is not responsible for materials published by institutions cooperating with FBC, available on the portal.

Detailed information on this subject can be found on the "Legal information" subpage.

Technical aspects

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FBC application form

Join over 130 institutions that are already sharing their collections on our portal!

Using this form, you can express your willingness to cooperate.

Fill out and send the application, and we will pre-verify the data and contact the contact person to determine further actions. If in doubt, please contact us.

Europeana

Europeana is a search engine for cultural and scientific institutions in Europe. The mission of the portal is to promote the resources of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. The search engine operates on the principles of a centralized network of national and domain aggregators.

FBC is the official Polish content aggregator for Europeana, which means that cultural and scientific institutions, after notifying the FBC of their willingness to share their collections in an international search engine, must undergo an analysis of the quality of metadata and digital objects in accordance with the applicable Publishing Framework

Important links:

Europeana rights statements https://pro.europeana.eu/page/available-rights-statements

Europeana Publishing Framework https://pro.europeana.eu/post/publishing-framework

Europeana Data Model https://pro.europeana.eu/page/edm-documentation

FBC in Europeana https://pro.europeana.eu/organisation/federacja-bibliotek-cyfrowych

If you want to add the resources of your institution, write to us: fbc@man.poznan.pl

Data providers

	Source name	Objects	Coordinator	On-line since
1	Historical Museum in Lublin	3 271	Historical Museum in Lublin	2021-05-28
2	Academic Platform of Journals	16 483	Nicolaus Copernicus University	-
3	Film Archive of PWSFTViT in Łódź	-	Film School Development Foundation	2017-10-19
4	Jerzy Kukuczka's Archive	-	Maundy Thursday Foundation	-