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EUROPEAN DIGITAL HERITAGE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

Graham Jefcoate. EUROPEAN DIGITAL HERITAGE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES. Overview. LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation Documentary heritage – above all library collections of print and manuscripts

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EUROPEAN DIGITAL HERITAGE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

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  1. Graham Jefcoate EUROPEAN DIGITAL HERITAGE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

  2. Overview • LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries • Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation • Documentary heritage – above all library collections of print and manuscripts • Crossing boundaries, “cross-domain” issues • LIBER’s role for heritage collections

  3. Europe as common cultural heritage area • LIBER’s reach is truly European, but … • Political, linguistic and cultural boundaries, differences in curatorial practice • Heritage collections: quantity and diversity • A common heritage • Example: Guilford Collection at the British Library

  4. The Guilford Project http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/manuscripts/guilford/index.html

  5. Europeana www.europeana.eu/portal/

  6. Inventory: describing and mapping heritage collections • Retrospective cataloguing • National bibliographies on- line: • The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) • Short Title Cataloge Netherlands (STCN) • “Aggregating services”: • MALVINE - Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated Networks in Europe • Heritage of the Printed Book (HPB) - CERL

  7. Digitisation

  8. Codex Sinaiticus http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/

  9. Georg and Johann Reinhold Forster

  10. LIBER and LIBER Heritage Collections: programme for 2010 … • Promote practical cooperation • Facilitate communication • Organise conferences and workshops • Focus on central and Eastern Europe • Partner in funding proposals • Address standards • Identify existing projects and organisations • Examine need for registry of what has been digitised • Expand the CERL Portal • Monitor the outcomes of the EU consultation on Europeana • EuropeanaTravel, PEARL2 • Liaise with archives, to examine common standards, reconstructing collections, developing strategies for mass digitisation

  11. Thank you for your attention: my contact details … Graham Jefcoate Nijmegen University Library G.JEFCOATE@UBN.RU.NL

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