EUROPEAN DIGITAL HERITAGE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
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EUROPEAN DIGITAL HERITAGE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
Graham Jefcoate
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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
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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
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The Guilford Project
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/manuscripts/guilford/index.html
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Europeana
www.europeana.eu/portal/
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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
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Digitisation
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Codex Sinaiticus
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/
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Georg and Johann Reinhold Forster
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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
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Thank you for your attention: my contact details …
Graham Jefcoate Nijmegen University Library