Collections as Data at the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands: Redesigning Data Services for the Future

In less than 20 years’ time, the collections of digitized materials from the KB, the national library of the Netherlands, have grown into fully-fledged large-scale national collections, actively maintained and well established. Access to the collections is facilitated with an online graphical search interface (Delpher) and with a suite of services, in line with the ‘Collections as Data imperative’ first elaborated by Thomas Padilla and colleagues (2019). Based on ten years of experience the KB is now in the process of rethinking and redesigning these Data Services. In this paper we offer a con... Mehr ...