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Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
A digital collaborative library of royal manuscripts
Matthieu BONICEL
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
Motivation, problem area
• 5 partners, 2 national libraries, 1 state library, 2 academic libraries
• 30 months (January 2010 to June 2012) • Digitise 874 rare and precious manuscripts from the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance (8th to 16th cent.)• Reconstruct digitally collections that have been dispersed• Provide Europeana with heritage content
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
Project Objectives
• Build a multilingual metadata repository• Produce High-quality content for Europeana• Address both scholars and general public• Gather text and iconographic content
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
Collections
• Carolingian Kings• Agaronese kings of Naples• Manuscripts of Charles V of France and his family
Bavarian State Library Clm 17011, around 860
Bibl. Ste Geneviève, Ms. 782, Chroniques de St Denis 1275-1280 Bibl. Historica Univ. Valencia, BH Ms. 50,
Geometia magistri Thome Brdvardini, around 1480
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
Challenges
• Produce and aggregate metadata in six languages• Cope with 3 different formats + ESE/EDM• Address both general public, school teachers and scholars,
with different needs• Make all content avaliable to Europeana via a global
aggregator
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
Metadata delivery and access
BnF + FranceEAD
BSBTEI
HABTEI
BHUVMARC
KBRTEI
The European LibraryAggregator
Original languages
www.europeanaregia.euProject website (Drupal)
In 6 languages
ESE/EDM mapping
Local digital libraries and catalogues
Access to full digital surrogates and academic metadata in original language
OAI and/or local format delivery
Manual input to Drupal CMS
Minimal metadata + thumbnail + link to original repository
Minimal metadata + thumbnail + link to original repository
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
Limitations
• No standardized multilingual format to describe manuscripts in different languages in local and distant systems
• Need to do manual input (with drop-down lists) to DRUPAL• Undoubling of documents in European delivered both in
project and national delivery/harvest• Full surrogates only on local digital libraries• No international standard for iconographic descriptions• Sustainability of project website
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
Conclusion and outlook
• First content project for Europeana• Useful for harmonization of practices, both practicle and
academic• Highlighting of special needs in digital heritage libraries :
multilingual and standardized formats at different scales• Coordination and mutual improvement of different-scale
libraries
Session 8e : Digital libraries and cultural heritage 26th October 2011 eChallenges e-2011 Copyright 2011 Europeana Regia Consortium
For any further questions
contact form : http://www.europeanaregia.eu/en/contact
matthieu.bonicel@bnf.fr
Thank you for your attention !
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