Klaus Reinhardt and Christiane Dorff report on the development of a "presentation toolkit" for re-use at national and international (library) events.
In June 1998 the contract for the EXPLOIT project was signed by the European Commission and the German Libraries Institute (DBI) in its role as project co-ordinator. EXPLOIT stands for Pan-European Exploitation of the Results of the Libraries Programme. It is an accompanying measure under the Libraries Programme which is part of the EU Telematics Applications Programme. The other main partners of the project are The British Council and UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information Networking) at the University of Bath. The measure was planned for a lifetime of 24 months. It has recently been extended until the end of 2000.
The results of the approximately 100 projects and actions funded under the Libraries Programme are now becoming available. Exploitation and the encouragement of take-up among libraries within the member states is now a key issue. The existing and potential users include: libraries, publishers, book trade, industry, research associations and policy makers all over Europe.
There will be two main phases of the Accompanying Measure. Firstly a process of self-assessment by projects followed by analysis and clustering of results followed by a range of inter-linked activities including:
A number of problems are involved: although projects are responsible for the exploitation of their results, it has proven difficult for many project consortia to take a wider market perspective; awareness of and access to information on project results is not adequate at present; and there is no multi-project forum available to discuss (rather than just present) these results. The projects launched have been of a relatively small scale and the libraries scene in Europe is in general somewhat fragmented. There is a need for additional mechanisms which can increase the impact of the activities under the Telematics for Libraries Programme.
The development of effective mechanisms for the exploitation of emerging results from the Telematics for Libraries Programme across the EU has to become a major priority if the programme is to have the envisaged impact. Similarly, the transfer of know-how in this area to those CEE countries which have applied for accession to the EU is important if organisations in this sector are to catch up and apply European standards. The EXPLOIT Accompanying Measure will provide integrated pan-European activities designed to meet this need, building in features which are sustainable after the completion of the measure.
The aim of the presentation toolkit is to facilitate the demonstration of project results at national and international events. It points out the direction of the technological development of the libraries sector rather than presenting project results individually. Through its well-structured content and attractive appearance it gives professionals of the libraries sector the opportunity to inform audiences of the latest development in an easy, ready-made way.
First, the main areas of technological development had to be identified. In order to achieve that all projects had to be clustered into homogeneous groups. This was a lengthy process using several classification lists from the European Commission. In addition, it proved to be appropriate to classify the projects into (1) resources used, (2) used or developed technology and (3) targeted user group. The outcome of that process is the following list of nine clusters:
Every project can be represented in more than one cluster (three clusters at maximum), however, following the main content of the project, one cluster will be defined as "main cluster".
| No. | Project | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 1 | AIDA, No. 2036 | 4 | |||||||||
| 2 | ARCA, No. 3039 | 4 | |||||||||
| 3 | BALTICSEAWEB, No. 4020 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 4 | BAMBI, No. 3114 | 3 | |||||||||
| 5 | BIBDEL, No. 20784 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
| 6 | BIBLINK, No. 4034 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| 7 | BIBLIOTECA, No. 2023 | 1 | |||||||||
| 8 | BORGES, No 3052 | 4 | |||||||||
| 9 | CAMILE, No. 4026 | 6 | |||||||||
| 10 | CANAL/LS, No. 3063 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 11 | CANDLE, No. 5649 | 4 | |||||||||
| 12 | CANTATE, No. 2016 | 7 | |||||||||
| 13 | CASA, No. 4058 | 1 | |||||||||
| 14 | CASELIBRARY, No. 3130 | 4 | |||||||||
| 15 | CDBIB, (FP3 prep. action) | 1 | |||||||||
| 16 | CECUP, No. 5663 | 2 | |||||||||
| 17 | CHILIAS, No. 4086 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 9 | ||||||
| 18 | COBRA/COBRA+, No 4100 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| 19 | COPINET, No. 3033 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||
| 20 | DALI, No. 3132 | 4 | |||||||||
| 21 | DEBORA, No. 5608 | 3 | |||||||||
| 22 | DECIDE, No. 3062 | 6 | |||||||||
| 23 | DECIMAL, No. 3012 | 6 | |||||||||
| 24 | DECOMATE, No. 3078 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||
| 25 | DECOMATE II, No. 5672 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| 26 | DEDICATE, No. 5611 | 5 | |||||||||
| 27 | DELICAT, No. 4025 | 1 | |||||||||
| 28 | DERAL, No. 5660 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||
| 29 | DIEPER, No. 5632 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
| 30 | ECUP, ECUP+, No. 4000 | 2 | |||||||||
| 31 | EDIL, No. 1042 | 4 | |||||||||
| 32 | EDILIBE I (FP3 prep. action) | 1 | |||||||||
| 33 | EDILIBE II, No. 1011 | 1 | |||||||||
| 34 | EDUCATE, No. 2003 | 5 | |||||||||
| 35 | EFILA, EFILA+, No. 4012 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 36 | EFILA97, No. 5601 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 37 | ELISE, No. 1008 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
| 38 | ELISE II, No. 3005 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
| 39 | ELITE, No. 4087 | 4 | |||||||||
| 40 | ELSA, No. 2006 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
| 41 | ELVIL, No. 4056 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||||
| 42 | ELVIL2000, No. 5667 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||||
| 43 | EQLIPSE, No. 3019/3077 | 6 | |||||||||
| 44 | EQUINOX, No. 5634 | 6 | |||||||||
| 45 | EULER, No. 5609 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| 46 | EURILIA, No. 2083 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
| 47 | EUROPAGATE, No. 2062 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 48 | EXCEL, No. 5650 | 1 | |||||||||
| 49 | EXLIB, No. 1037 | 9 | |||||||||
| 50 | EXPLOIT, No. 5603 | n.a. | |||||||||
| 51 | FACIT, No. 1044 | 1 | |||||||||
| 52 | FASTDOC, No. 2076 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||
| 53 | HARMONICA | 1 | 3 | 7 | |||||||
| 54 | HELEN, No. 1040 | 1 | |||||||||
| 55 | HERCULE, No. 5604 | 3 | 8 | 9 | |||||||
| 56 | HISTORIA, No. 3117 | 3 | |||||||||
| 57 | HYPERLIB, No. 1015 | 4 | |||||||||
| 58 | IFLA-EU, No. 5605 | n.a. | |||||||||
| 59 | ILIERS, No. 4039 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 | ||||||
| 60 | ILSES, No. 4050 | 4 | |||||||||
| 61 | IMPRESS, No. 4091 | 1 | |||||||||
| 62 | INCIPIT, No. 2031 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| 63 | ION (FP 3 prep. action) | 4 | |||||||||
| 64 | JUKEBOX, No. 1049 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |||||||
| 65 | LAURIN, No. 5629 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| 66 | LIBECON/2000, No. 5656 | 6 | |||||||||
| 67 | LIBERATION, No. 4063 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||||
| 68 | LIBERATOR, No. 5646 | 4 | 8 | ||||||||
| 69 | LIRN, No. 2014 | 1 | |||||||||
| 70 | LISTED, No. 4111 | 2 | 5 | 8 | |||||||
| 71 | MALVINE, No. 5674 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| 72 | MASTER, No. 5612 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| 73 | MECANO, No. 2045 | 4 | |||||||||
| 74 | MINSTREL, No. 3091 | 6 | |||||||||
| 75 | MIRACLE, No. 5670 | 1 | 7 | 9 | |||||||
| 76 | MOBILE, No. 2050 | 4 | 8 | 9 | |||||||
| 77 | MORE, No. 1047 | 1 | |||||||||
| 78 | MUMLIB, No. 3025 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| 79 | MURIEL, No. 3007 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| 80 | NEDLIB, No. 5648 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| 81 | OLUIT, No. 3121 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
| 82 | ONE, No. 3099 / ONE II, No. 5643 | 4 | |||||||||
| 83 | PLAIL, No. 2081 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||
| 84 | PRIDE, No. 5264 | 4 | |||||||||
| 85 | PUBLICA, No. 4055/5628/5653 | 8 | |||||||||
| 86 | REACTIVE TELECOM, No. 3122 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||
| 87 | RIDDLE, No. 1038 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 88 | SELF, No. 3020 | 6 | |||||||||
| 89 | SESAM, No. 3093 | 4 | |||||||||
| 90 | SOCKER, No. 1050 | 4 | |||||||||
| 91 | SPRINTEL, No. 2032 | 6 | 8 | ||||||||
| 92 | SR-TARGET/PARAGON, No. 3034 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |||||||
| 93 | TECUP, No. 5664 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||
| 94 | TESTLAB, No. 4003 | 3 | 4 | 9 | |||||||
| 95 | TOLIMAC, No. 4047 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||||||
| 96 | TRANSLIB, No. 3038 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 97 | UNIVERSE, No. 4032 | 4 | |||||||||
| 98 | USEMARCON, No. 2054 | 1 | |||||||||
| 99 | VAN EYCK, I&II No. 1054 | 3 | |||||||||
| 100 | VERITY, No. 5627 | 5 | 9 | ||||||||
| 101 | VILIB, No. 5618 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| Totals number of projects per cluster | 30 | 15 | 29 | 52 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 8 | 2 |
In Table 1 a highlighted number indicates the main cluster for the project.
The theme areas have been used as the basis for the presentation toolkit. For each of the nine areas an individual presentation module has been created using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Most of the presentation modules contain speaker's notes which provide additional information on the theme area. All slides have a consistent look-and-feel.
Some of the presentation modules have already been tested by EXPLOIT staff and external experts at events in Rome, Warsaw and Bordeaux. Feedback has been very positive so far from the speakers as well as from audiences. Recently all project co-ordinators were asked to validate the presentations from their point of view. Comments and suggestions have been collected, and the presentation toolkit has been revised respectively. We would like to thank everybody for their contributions.
The presentation toolkit is currently available in English only. However a German and a French version are being produced.
The revised version of the presentations are publicly available online and for download on the EXPLOIT web site [1], which is illustrated below.
 Figure 1: Accessing the Presentations From The EXPLOIT Web Site |
Clicking the yellow star at the left hand side allows to view the presentations in HTML format online. To download the PowerPoint 97 formatted files please click the underlined title on the right hand side.
There will be an ongoing upgrade process of the presentations until the end of the year 2000. Comments and ideas are welcome and will be considered in the next update. Updates will take place in larger time intervals (2-3 months).
As already mentioned these presentations are prepared for re-use of experts at national or international (library) events. Please feel free to download the presentations and use them as often as you like. You may want to add some slides (e.g. national results in the same area) to the existing presentations. However, the provided presentations themselves must not be changed without consultation with the author of this article. To prevent accidental changes the presentations are password protected.
Finally, an important request: Please keep us informed of any re-use of the presentations. When you contact us to help us keep our records up-to-date on use of the presentation toolkit, please provide the following information:
Thank you very much in advance!
Klaus Reinhardt and Christiane Dorff
German Libraries Institute Berlin
International Libraries Cooperation Unit
Kurt-Schumacher-Damm 12-16
13405 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49-30-41034-468 / -165
Email: <reinhardt@dbi-berlin.de> /
<dorff@dbi-berlin.de>
For citation purposes:
Klaus Reinhardt and Christiane Dorff, "EXPLOIT: Presentations of EU Libraries Programme Results Available Online",
Exploit Interactive, issue 5, April 2000
URL: <http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue5/exploit/>
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