DIGIBÍS® Newsletter. No. 19. January-June, 2018

Information about enriched digitization, software for Libraries, Archives

and Museums and international standards.

Archivo Carmen Martín GaiteCon el módulo de descripciones archivísticas de DIGIBIB

Adapted to all devicesThe Municipal Archive of Castellón

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CEOTachi Hernando de Larramendi

Project ManagerXavier Agenjo Bullón

CFONuria Ruano Penas

IT ManagerJesús L. Domínguez Muriel

Art DirectorAntonio Otiñano Martínez

Sales ManagerJavier Mas García

Technology CoordinatorFrancisca Hernández Carrascal

Administration DepartmentMaría Luz Ruiz Rodríguez (coord.)José María Alcega Barroeta

IT DepartmentFeli Matarranz de Antonio (coord.)

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Innovation DepartmentPaulo César Juanes Hernández (coord.)

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I N T E R N A T I O N A LEuropeana3rd International EuropeanaTech Conference 4Europeana Business Plan 2018:

democratizing culture 6

E V E N T SCoursesCourse-workshop of the Ignacio

Larramendi Foundation in the AEF 7

GLAM APPLICATIONSVirtual LibrariesLinked data in the

Virtual Library of Castilla y León 8Virtual archive of the

municipality of Castellón 10The Polymath Virtual Library

present in Wikidata 12With DIGIBIB, records automatically

go into WorldCat 14

News2018: European Year of Cultural

Heritage and University of Salamanca 16

SUMMARY

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EDITORIAL

A ccess to information by digital or electronic means has undergonea radical change; if during the first years of information technologyand especially regarding the Internet everything was accessed

through the screens of personal computers, in the last decade this hasbeen replaced by mobile devices: telephones, tablets, etc..

Statistics show that computer sales have stagnated, even in some casesfalling back in recent years, while the number of mobile devices hasincreased by one or two orders of magnitude. Moreover, statistics also showthat library users in the youngest sections of the population are also thosewho use these mobile devices almost exclusively.

Libraries cannot be exempt from this trend,but the majority of the most widespread OPAClack a design that in proper Spanish is calledadaptive. This is not a whim, often the informationprovided by biographical records is difficult toadapt to mobile devices.

The Archive and Newspaper Library of Castellón

DIGIBÍS has developed an adaptive website forthe Castellón Archive and Newspaper Library project, so that users whoaccess this digital resource from a mobile device can view the informationin a totally intelligible way.

The Castellón Archive and Newspaper Library was presented on 16 Aprilwith more than 50,000 daily newspapers with their corresponding biblio-graphic descriptions and records for collections and locations, that is to say,copies.

This is a difficult development because the detail of the records can bevery detailed, but DIGIBÍS has given the best of its technology so that thesedetailed descriptions can be displayed correctly on any device, whetherfixed or mobile.

DIGIBÍS invites those interested in bibliographical information to visit theCastellón Municipal Archive on their mobile phone to check what has beenshown in this editorial.

OPAC: Adapt or stagnate

DIGIBÍS is equipped with a design adapted

to the archives and libraries implemented with their applications

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the work carried out by the Dutch Digital HeritageNetwork (DEN) to build a distributed digital he -ritage system based on Linked Open Data tech-nology, EDM and Schema.org.

A second group of presentations was com-posed of analysis and experiences on the usabilityof applications and data. Usability and the parti -cipation of different user groups is one of Euro-peana’s objectives for the coming years. Thepresentation by Rob Sanderson of the Paul GettyTrust on LOUD (Linked Open Usable Data) and theLinked Art project should be especially men-tioned. Emilie Gordenker’s presentation on theapplication of IIIF for the technical and artisticanalysis of masterpieces by Dutch painters wasimpressive.

The third thematic thread focused on the po -ssibilities for collaboration offered by Wikidata,Wikipedia and DBpedia. In this case the under -lying idea corresponds to the objective of Euro-peana of being present on the websites where

users are and in the ways of semantically enrich-ing Europeana’s metadata with multilingual data.Di sseminating Wikidata’s capabilities among con-tent providers will make it easier for them to per-form these enrichment tasks through their ownmeans and to provide Europeana with the alreadyenriched metadata.

Innovative projects and new protocol

Different innovative projects were presented forthe application of Artificial Intelligence and ma-chine learning to extract content and metadata,the automatic labelling of photographs or toteach machines how to perform optical characterrecognition on handwritten texts. Europeana hasset itself the goal of incorporating full-text searchinto its platform and making Europeana Newspa-pers the next thematic collection to be launchedin 2018. We will highlight the Transkribus andeTranslation projects of the European Union formultilingual machine translation and, especially,the intervention of Tristan Roddis, who showedsome of the successes and failures in the auto-matic extraction of terms and the visual searchfor content.

A separate chapter should be set aside for thecommunication of Herbert van de Sompel, one ofthe creators of the OAI-PMH protocol, who hasembarked on a new protocol for the Web: Me-mento. He explained the state of progress of thisprotocol which aims to organise the contents ofwebsites and HTTP requests and responses totravel on the Web over time. According to this pro-tocol it will be possible to request the historicaldocuments that have been included in the sameURL from a Website, or the documents that ha -ving different URLs have been part of a Websiteover time.

All papers are available at EuropeanaTech2018– Gorgeous Data, Glorious Technology: In re-view.

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T he 3rd International EuropeanaTech Con-ference took place in Rotterdam the 15thand 16th May. EuropeanaTech is the com-

munity of experts, developers and researchers inthe R&D sector of Europeana Network. The Euro-peanaTech conferences are a place of communi-cation and discussion for experts from all over theworld on the most innovative aspects of informa-tion systems. The meeting was held at the SS Rot-terdam Hotel, a liner that sailed the Rotterdam-New York route, permanently moored at one of thedocks in the port of Rotterdam. DIGIBÍS was rep-resented at EuropeanaTech by Francisca Hernán-dez, the company’s consultant.

The conference was attended by 255 people,mostly from the Netherlands (141). Other wellrepresented countries were Germany (25), theUnited Kingdom (20) and Belgium (14). Eight peo-ple participated from Spain, which places it at anaverage level. Similarly, the majority of speakersor panelists were from the Netherlands (26), fo -llowed by Germany (15), the United Kingdom (12)and the United States (9). Regarding the distribu-tion by gender, 59% of the participants were menand 41% were women, while the speakers andpanelists were 70% men and 30% women.

Prior session

The conference was preceded by a prior session,on the 14th, during which the participants weredistributed in two satellite meetings on the Inter-national Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF,or “triple “i” f”) and Wikidata. IIIF is a frameworkfor work, recommendations and practices for thecoding of metadata and images in a Web environ-ment, consisting of data servers and applicationsthat make use of images and metadata.

Examples of high search capacity were shown,with different possibilities of reusing the images.Especially striking were the compositions withsections of high-resolution documents or the vi-

sualization of the same object in different layersmade up of scans with different technical charac-teristics. The Wikidata session explored the po -ssibilities of this knowledge base for multilingualsemantic enrichment and linking.

The Conference’s thematic threads

The Conference revolved around different themat-ic threads. The first thread was the data andmetadata aggregation model and the advantagesand disadvantages of the centralization or decen-tralization of workflows, data and technicalprocesses. This thread is in line with Europeana’saim to reduce the costs and complexity of meta-data aggregation and to explore technologicalpossibilities other than the OAI-PMH protocol.

Of particular significance were the presenta-tions by Valentine Charles “Aggravated by Aggre-gation” and Enno Meijers “A distributed Networkof digital heritage information”, who presented

INTERNATIONAL

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Europeana Business Plan 2018: democratizing culture

E uropeana‘s business plan for 2018 waspublished on 20 February. It highlights theobjectives to be achieved for this year,

which are dedicated to European Cultural He -ritage. The fundamental idea behind this plan isto place Europe’s cultural heritage where peoplewant it or need it: in social media, in education, inresearch or in new applications.

In order to strengthen the idea of a common andshared Europe among the citizens, two major par-ticipative campaigns are organised: EuropeanaMigration and Europeana 1914-1918 collections,the latter to commemorate the centenary of theFirst World War. New thematic collections, such asEuropeana Newspaper, will also be launched.

In the development of the Digital Library itself,the objective is to improve data ingest servicesand financial costs associated with a new internalworkflow and a new publishing system, METIS,which will be operational in the second quarter of 2018. By 2018, Europeana has set a target ofeliminating half of the 14 million records that donot meet the minimum quality requirements.

In research and development, Europeana willfocus on implementing practices that are emer -

ging from the International Image Interope -rability Framework (IIIF,”triple”i” f”) community,in creasing the visibility of data to search engines,enriching and linking data to improve their posi-tioning, and broadening the search to include thefull text. Europeana will continue to analyse newtechnologies for metadata harvesting on theWeb, such as IIIF, to propose an alternative toOAI-PMH.

Being present where people seek, use, or needdigital cultural heritage is a goal that we believewill have a great influence on the future; this ishelped by the various Wikimedia projects, inclu -ding Wikipedia and Wikidata.

It should also be noted that Europeana willcreat e two working groups, the Europeana TeacherDeveloper Group and the Europeana Teacher UserGroup to develop applications and learning scena -rios using the content of Europeana; and that withEUROCLIO (European Association of HistoryEducators, created by the Council of Europe to buildbridges between education professionals) andHistoriana, a history content portal coordinated byEUROCLIO, a set of guides for teachers will be created.

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A course/workshop on “Digitization andmetadata for foundations” was given bythe Ignacio Larramendi Foundation, at

the headquarters of the Spanish Association ofFoundations (AEF), on 14 March 2018.

The course was presented by José Andrés Gar-cía, director of Training, Studies and SectorGroups of the AEF, and Carmen Hernando de La -rramendi, vice-president of the Ignacio Larra-mendi Foundation (FIL).

Carmen Hernando de Larramendi recalled in herpresentation the objectives and context in which her father created DIGIBÍS in the 1990s, a techno-logy company of the Ignacio Larramendi Founda-tion. At that time, the World Wide Web and newtechnologies for the preservation and dissemina-tion of cultural heritage were still in their infancy.

The speakers at the workshop were XavierAgenjo Bullón, Project Director of the Ignacio La-rramendi Foundation, and Patricia Juez García,Project Technician of the same Foundation.

The most appropriate way for foundations toapply the most consolidated tools to their collec-

tions was discussed; to this end, a global visionwas drawn up of the digitization process enrichedwith metadata, applied to elements of the culturalheritage of archives, museums, libraries and do-cumentation centres, and of the transformation ofthese elements into digital objects in accordancewith Spanish and international regulations. Like-wise, the procedure for the incorporation of thesedigital objects into large digital libraries, such asEuropeana, Hispana and the Digital Public Libraryof America, was reviewed through the OAI-PMHprotocol and the Dublin Core and Europeana DataModels schemes, the latter used by Europeanaand the DPLA. All these features were shownwith real examples developed by DIGIBÍS.

The Metadata Encoding and TransmissionStandard (METS) metadata system was also dis-cussed, the knowledge and rigorous applicationof which is essential for the correct compositionof digital objects and for the efficient exchange ofdata, as well as its use, in combination with ALTOfiles, in order to obtain digital objects with opticalcharacter recognition.

Course-workshop of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation at the AEF

EVENTS COURSES

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All municipal and provincial registers also in-clude a descriptive summary extracted from theWikipedias in Spanish and English.

Uneconomical tasks transformed into enriching tasks

This automatic procedure is, as mentioned above,a paradise for cataloguers and personnel ma -nagement departments, as these are tasks thatare completely uneconomical to perform manual-ly. No library can afford the human resource costof creating such desirable authority records, only

semi-automated controlled processes can enablelibraries to cope with them.

Aware of this, DIGIBÍS has developed amethodology to semantically enrich the registersof authority with different vocabularies of values.This innovative methodology has earned AENORcertification in R&D&I and its corresponding Mo-tivated Report from the State Secretariat for Re-search, Development and Innovation of the Mi -nistry of Economy and Business. DIGIBÍS has al-ready received nine certifications over consecu-tive years, which we have been reporting on atDIGICLIC.

In 2017, DIGIBÍS presented the“Collection and reconciliation ofopen data” project, with the acronymRECONCIHUB. The project corres -ponds to the work carried out in 2016and is the detailed description of pro-cedures, tasks, achievements andcosts associated with semantic re -conciliation and enrichment.

To save the users time

It is especially important to point outthat, following DIGIBÍS’ R&D&I philo-sophy, this methodology, as we havealready said, has been applied to thetwo projects that can be consulted onthe Linked Data microsite of the Digi-tal Library of Castilla y León.

As you can see from the illustra-tions, from two authority records inMARC 21 format you get a high qua -lity information that, and this is themost important thing, benefits theuser when consulting a digital or vir-tual library, complying with thefourth law of the mathematician andlibrarian Ranganathan: to save theusers time.

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T he Digital Library of Castilla y León, imple-mented in DIGIBIBIB, has developed a newproject in the Linked Open Data environ-

ment. This is the Castilla y León Collection:Linked Data (Castilla y León: Datos Enlazados), amicrosite that harvests authority records of al-most 8000 authors from Castilla-León and all themunicipalities of this Autonomous Community,2,248.

All authority records have been processed withreconciliation and semantic enrichment tech-niques, as discussed in the previous issue of DI -GICLIC.

As mentioned, DIGIBÍS has deve -loped a methodology that allowslinking authority records with LinkedOpen Data value vocabularies in asemi-automatic way. It is evident, ascan be seen from the records shown,that this is the cataloguer’s paradise.Linking authority records to the VIAFis an example of good data linkingpractice, but if you add links to theauthority records of the BibliotecaNacional de España, the Library ofCongress, the Bibliothèque Na-tionale de France or the DeutscheNationalbibliothek, among other ins -titutions, and links to the Wikipediadescriptions, in all the official lan-guages of Spain, of Wikidata and DBpedia, this provides users with alarge number of possibilities fromcomplementary browsing to a des -cription given in the world’s largestcatalogues, such as WorldCat, or insectoral catalogues such as the Sys-tème Universitaire de Documenta-tion (SUDOC).

As far as municipalities are con-cerned, they are enriched with linksto Google Maps, Google Knowledge

Graph, OpenStreet and GeoNames, as well aswith national jurisdictional resources, such as theINE (Population of the Continuous Municipal Re -gister by Population Unit), the Registry of LocalEntities (REL), the List of Municipalities, Provin -ces and their Codes and the Nomenclator of Mu-nicipalities and Population Entities of the Natio -nal Geographic Information Centre of the NationalGeographic Institute. Regarding these nationaldata sets, it must be said that what is missing isthat they are not adapted to the Linked Open Datatechnology that, in any case, the Spanish Govern-ment has to promote.

Linked data in the Virtual Library of Castilla y León

On this page, authority record of Miguel Delibes. On the other page, Simancas tab; both with LOD links.

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PMH repository, an essential condition for all thedigital documents of the Castellón MunicipalArchive to be added -automatically- by Hispana,the national aggregator of digital resources of theMinistry of Education, Culture and Sports, by Eu-ropeana, the European digital library, and by thegreat WorldCat catalogue. Thanks to the multilin-gual interface of DIGIBIB, the Archive can be con-sulted in Valencian and Spanish.

To conclude, we would like to share the wordsof the newspaper Levante about this DigitalArchive: “This is one of the financially sustainableinvestments that consisted of providing [theArchive] a system that would allow them to man-age its collections, manage the physical and digi-tal collection in a fully integrated manner withoutthe need for external applications, and allow themanagement of standardized metadata from bi -bliographic records, copies, authorities and ob-jects.

This project also allows access to citizensthrough a modern website, with an improvedsearch engine and an adaptable design that gua -rantees good performance on multi-resolutionscreens.

Finally, we should add that the more than50,000 records in the Castellón Municipal Archivehave already been collected by Hispana and OAIs-ter, which means, in the latter case, that theyhave been incorporated into WorldCat.

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O n 16 April 2018, Castellón Town Councilpresented its new digital archive, theCastellón Municipal Archive. The event

was headed up by the councillor for Culture,Verónica Ruiz, the councillor for Modernisationand Transparency, Ignasi García, and the munici-pal archivist, Elena Sánchez.

The digital archive is included in the CastellónMunicipal Historical Archive, which manages andpreserves the documentation generated by theTown Council since the 13th century and alsoholds an important newspaper, bibliographic andgraphic collection.

The digital archive contains 98 periodical pu -blications of the newspaper library (with morethan 50,000 issues) and 380 photographs and il-lustrations.

Implemented in DIGIBIB

The Castellón Municipal Archive is implementedin the DIGIBIB library management system. As forthe software, the project stands out for being thefirst instance of DIGIBIB to have a responsive oradaptive design, which means that the content ofthe website flows and adapts to different screensizes, whether they are desktops, tablets, tele-phones or laptops:

• the menu items and the selection of lan-guages, which until now were separate bu -ttons, are brought together in the typicalthree-striped button that we can deploy whenyou tap it from a mobile device, either An-droid or iOS.

• similarly, the facets that appear, after asearch, on the left of the screen in the inter-face of a desktop computer, are displayed, ifaccessed from a mobile device, by clicking ona clearly defined drop-down icon.

• page elements, such as carousel and presen-tation text, are readjusted and redistributeddepending on the size of the access device

screen and the properties of the element it-self.

• search results can be displayed on a compu -ter in a mosaic view or as a list, a possibilitythat is reduced to a mosaic view on mobiledevices for better visibility and usability.

The adaptive design meets all the functionalities of DIGIBIB

Although, as we have seen, the adaptive designhas its requirements, it must be said that it stillcomplies with all the devices, as is to be expected,with the complete functionalities of DIGIBIB; thisis why, and because it is an instance of this appli-cation, as we have already said, it supports theESE and EDM formats and incorporates an OAI-

Virtual archive of the municipality of Castellón

On the left, record of a photograph on a desktop computer and on a tablet. On these lines, record of a newspaper on a mobile phone and on the desktop computer.

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files and vice versa, making the Linked Open Datanetwork ever more extensive and dense.

The Polymath Virtual Library, almost a decade with LOD

The Polymath Virtual Library has been consumingand using Linked Open Data (LOD) in its authorityrecords for almost a decade, assigning URI iden-tifiers with HTTP protocol to them. Systemati-cally, the records of people, entities, subjects and

places are linked to other LOD resources on va-rious bases: VIAF, data.bne, List of Subject Hea-dings for public libraries in SKOS, Library of Con-gress Names, Bibliotèque Natio nale de France(data.bnf.fr), Gemeinsame Norm datei (DeutschenNationalbibliothek), Internatio nal Standard NameIdentifier, GeoNames, etc. All these features havebeen adapted by DIGIBÍS.

Thanks to its presence in Wikidata, the des -cription of the Polymath Virtual Library can beused in all the Wikipedias in their different lan-guages, and its URI can be incorporated into allthe above-mentioned authority files. A new hubwithin the network of LOD.

Above the increasingly dense LOD cloud, you can see theWikipedia entry of the Polymath Virtual Library and theeditable Wikidata page. We also see the Wikidata home pageand the Wikimedia home page with all the projects it develops.

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P resent since May 2018 in the well-knowndigital encyclopaedia Wikipedia, the Poly-math Virtual Library of the Ignacio Larra-

mendi Foundation, implemented in version 10 ofthe DIGIBIBIB program of the DIGIBÍS company,also has a description in Wikidata, the free data-base, open and common to all Wikimedia pro -jects.

Wikidata, a centralized warehouse of structured data

Wikidata works as a centralized warehouse ofstructured data that can be edited and used byboth individuals and machines, which has made itan important source of Linked Open Data formany other databases, such as the Virtual Inter-national Authority File (VIAF) or the.bne, a portal

of linked open data from the Biblioteca Nacionalde España which are, in turn, creators of open andlinked authority data. Wikidata has been recentlyadded to the “Linked Open Data Cloud”.

Following Tim Berners-Lee’s recommenda-tions in his Linked Data-Design issues, bothWikidata and other authority databases such asVIAF, datos.bne.es, or the Virtual PolygraphLibrary, seek to link their descriptions to othersources through the Uniform Resource Identifiers(URIs), just so that more can be discovered. Andso there is an enormous increase in these reci -procal links between Wikidata and the authorities’

The Polymath Virtual Library present in Wikidata

Wikidata has been turned into an important source of Linked Open Data (LOD)

The Virtual Polymath Library has been using Linked Open Data (LOD) for nearly a decade.in their authority records

[edit data in Wikidata]

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works of the authors that make up the SalamancaSchool’s Virtual Library, which achieves a fargreater reach than if it were only available on thePolymath Virtual Library Website. Hispanic, Eu-ropeana, and WorldCat, are multiplying the reachof the Virtual Library in its efforts to make digitalobjects made up of digitized images and their co -rresponding metadata accessible.

In addition, the polygraph studies that the Igna-cio Larramendi Foundation requests from univer-sity professors and researchers, in this examplethat we are putting forward these would be thosededicated to the authors of the SalamancaSchool, follow the general guidelines of the Poly-

math Virtual Library , so they benefit from theirinclusion in WorldCat. Professor Juan Belda’sstudy of Martin Azpilcueta is therefore available inWorldCat. The same applies to digital materialscreated by the Ignacio Larramendi Foundationfrom its own digitizations or by aggregating, andrecataloguing, metadata from digital materialscreated by third parties.

In this way, both the works of the author thatwe have used as an example, Martín Azpilcueta,and the critical studies dedicated to him havegained greater visibility thanks to the collection ofmetadata provided by the use of OAI-PMH tech-nology.

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B earing in mind that one of the greatest di -fficulties for the Spanish digital heritage isvisibility, we can understand the impor-

tance of projects such as Hispana and Europeana,as they have taken a giant step forward in makingdigital content accessible to everyone throughtheir respective digital platforms.

DIGIBÍS, aware of the importance of the visibi -lity and accessibility of digitized information, de-cided from the very beginning to incorporate OAI-PMH technology into all its IT solutions: DIGIBIB,DIGIARCH, DIGIMÚS and DIGIHUB. HISPANA it-self, also a development of DIGIBÍS, not only hasthe harvesting tool, but also automatically trans-fers all the information harvested to an OAIrepository, which gives Europeana a fantasticpossibility to add Spanish funds in a totally trans-parent way.

If you are in OAIster...

Well, with the same technology, it is possible thatdigital materials from a virtual or digital librarymay be harvested by the University of Michigan-born OAIster Aggregation Service, which was ac-quired by OCLC in the first decade of the 21st cen-tury. Today OAIster has over 30 million digital ob-jects harvested from thousands of OAI-PMHrepositories. If you look in the directory of digiti-zation projects harvested by OAIster you will findthat there are a large number of Spanish OAI-PMH repositories, most of which are implement-ed in the DIGIBIB software , developed entirely by

DIGIBÍS, which gives great visibility to their col-lections of digital objects.

For example, the Virtual Library of the Schoolof Salamanca, one of the microsites of the Poly-math Virtual Library of the Ignacio LarramendiFoundation, can be harvested by OAIster throughits OAI-PMH repository.

…These in the WorldCat

One of the best features of OAIster is that it auto-matically transfers digital items to WorldCat,which is, as you know, the world’s largest collec-tive catalogue; its numbers are dizzying: morethan 425 million bibliographic records and morethan 2.6 billion background and location records.

Therefore, the Salamanca School Virtual Li-brary is included in WorldCat in a transparent anddynamic way. When there is a modification or up-date of the information in its MARC 21 records, itis automatically transferred to Dublin Core, whichis the format that acts as the lowest common de-nominator in the OAI-PMH protocol.

The visibility of the Virtual Library of the Sala-manca School and, therefore, of all the authors,ideas and works that make up the SalamancaSchool is a crucial aspect for the Ignacio Larra-mendi Foundation, which has been corroboratedby the fact that the Max Planck Institute for theHistory of European Law, the Institute of Philoso-phy of the Goethe University of Frankfurt and theAcademy of Science and Literature of Mainz haveorganised a conference entitled “The School ofSalamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Produc-tion”, for which Xavier Agenjo, Project Director ofthe Ignacio Larramendi Foundation, has beenasked to participate and will present a paper en-titled “Visibility and digital accessibility of theSchool of Salamanca in a Linked Open Data envi-ronment”.

This paper rests, among other pillars, on thevisibility that WorldCat provides to the digitized

With DIGIBIB, records automa tically go into WorldCat

On the left, a record of a work by Martín de Azpilcueta (top) and the polygraph study (bottom) in the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation's Polymath Virtual Library; on the right, the same works with WorldCat records offered in a fully transparent way.

Fundación Ignacio Larramendi

Fundación Ignacio Larramendi

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NEWS

T wo important cultural celebrations: 2018has been declared the European Year ofCultural Heritage (EYCH) and this same

year marks the 800th anniversary of the creationof the University of Salamanca, the first medievalStudium Generale, which was named University.

The Ignacio Larramendi Foundation, in accor-dance with the purpose of bringing the culturalheritage closer to citizens, has received the ho -nour –after the necessary request– of being ableto use the AEPC logo for the Virtual Library of theSchool of Salamanca, implemented in the DI-GIBIB software , developed by the DIGIBÍS compa-ny, thus joining the double anniversary of thisyear.

The logo has been awarded by the National Co-ordinator of the AEPC in Spain, a body of the Min-istry of Culture and Sport.

Salamanca, as a university and knowledge cen-tre, has always been an important focus of the ac-tivity of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation. TheVirtual Library of the Salamanca School was oneof the first to be created by the Foundation andhas been updated for this anniversary.

Registered in the Spanish Golden Age, theSchool of Salamanca radiated its ideas to many of the jurists and economists of the time. Some ofthese ideas are even being further explored andare still valid today, for example, in internationallaw.

Among its polygraphs, we can mention Francis-co de Vitoria (1483-1546), Bartolomé de las Casas(1484-1565), Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1490-1573), Martín de Azpilcueta (1492-1586), Domingode Soto (1495-1560), Melchor Cano (1509-1560),Diego de Covarrubias (1512-1577), Tomás de Mer-cado (1523-1575), fray Luis de León (1527-1591),

Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), José de Acosta(1540-1600) or Francisco Suárez (1548-1617).

2018: European Year of Heritage Cultural and University of Salamanca

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