Postal and Telecommunications Digital Library

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FPC – Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações

The founders

FPC – Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações

CDI – Centro de Documentação e Informação

Rua do Instituto Industrial, Nº 161200 – 225 LisboaTel.: 351 213935156

The Web Site:www.fpc.pt/FPCWeb/homepage.do2

Our project

POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

DIGITAL LIBRARY

Digital Library project

We are building a digital library with archive, library and iconographic resources.

The Archive resources

The Library resources

The Iconographic resources

Our Information System

stores the data from different nature: Archive Library Iconography

Our Information System

Our end-users will have a federated search interface: the search engine looks for the data in the different databases and displays the results

Users may navigate through networked resources in the local databases The starting point may be a Library

resource Acess to the original document (PDF) A link to the manuscript (archive

document) A link to a collection of iconographic

resources on Flickr

Start a seach in the catalogue

Select a document

Navigate to a related document in the archive

Link to a collection of photographs in the Web

Our goal is a thematic network to build a Postal and

Telecommunications network with other European partners

A thematic network…

to bring together relevant content providers from libraries, archives and museums all over Europe and integrate resources, based on a common agreed set of standards and guidelines to create harmonised access to their content.

A thematic network…

to provide content to Europeana.

We want to integrate resources and link locally Giving access to our related

documents

Historical archive Iconographic library …

We can integrate resources and link globally Discover Open Library Library of Congress Other Archives and Libraries Flickr photograph database And other information sources

Where can we find resources related to ours… Let’s start by googling a name

“Godofredo Ferreira” (a Portuguese relevant author in the history of the Portuguese Mail)

We find resources in various sources and the Open Library:

http://openlibrary.org/a/OL1170081A

work as a discovery search tool, enhancing the networking of resources.

Our resources connected with the resources of other cultural institutions become more relevant for the end-user.

This search interface may…

Our most relevant collections:

Manuscripts Old and rare books Photographs Stamps Maps

"Mapa das Comunicações Postais de Portugal" , 1818