Developing countries and mediterranean countries
Memoria - Memory - Mémoire
"Memory of the world" is a programme launched by UNESCO to promote
the preservation of library and archival heritage collections throughout
the world and ensure widest possible access to them.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/index.html
MEDLIB Internet-based virtual library network for the Mediterranean
region
Project of a virtual library for the Mediterranean region,launched
by UNESCO,MEDLIB aims to built up a network of libraries and information
centres by making use of the latest information technologies, notably
the Internet. The network is open to all the interested institutions
North and South of the Mediterranean. Links to other relevant websites
of libraries and archives in this region are also provided.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mediter/medlib.htm
Europe and North America
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE handles digitisation of collections
and dissemination of information to leaders of digital library projects.
Digitised collections are available particularly in American history
and in literature.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
ARTFL Project
ARTFL - American and French Research on the Treasury of the French
Language (Trésor de la langue française), is a joint project
of the University of Chicago and the French "Institut national
de la langue française (InaLF). It includes a corpus of texts
from the 13th to the 20th century (novels, poetry, theatre, correspondance...).
It uses PhiloLogic search software.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html
Athena
The texts digitised by Athena include classical literature, texts
from Geneva, and university research work. A list of links is provided
to digitised texts accessible on other servers.
http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/html/authors.html
Electronic Text Center
The Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia provides
several thousand texts in English, French, German, Japonese and Latin
in SGML format according to the recommendations of the "Text Encoding
Initiative".
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Project Gutenberg
One of the earliest projects for a library of digitised texts, started
by Michael Hart. It includes selected literary texts and reference materials
in the public domain..
http://promo.net/pg/
Canadiana
A virtual library on Canadian history (16th century to 19th century)
developed jointly by four Canadian organisations (The "Institut
canadien de microreproductions historiques" (ICMH), The National
Library of Canada, Laval University Library and the University of Toronto
Library).
http://www.canadiana.org/
Prototype for electronic access to theses of the University of Montreal
Full texts of doctoral theses are available in various formats
(PDF, SGML, HTML...).
http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/theses/index.html
Elise Project (Electronic Library Image Service for Europe)
A projet supported by the European Commission (DG XIII) within the
framework of the "Telematics for Libraries" Programme ELISE
I (1993-1995) was followed by ELISE II (1996-1999).
http://severn.dmu.ac.uk/elise/
Digital libraries in the United Kingdom
e-Lib : Electronic Libraries Programme
http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/intro.html
Ariadne : journal on digital library projects
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/back/
GALLICA
A website providing experimental distance access to the digitised
collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF (French
National Library) : full texts of French literary classics from
the Middle Age to the 19th century, scientific texts, photographs and
audio documents.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Computerization Project of the Archivo General De Indias, Seville,
Spain
Strategies and Results
The project to digitise the "Archivo General de Indias"
(Archives of the Indies), in Seville, Spain; introduced by Pedro González,
1998.
http://www.clir.org/cpa/reports/gonzalez/contents.html
MUISTI Project documents
A Finnish project fordigitisation in cooperation between archives,
libraries and museums.
http://linnea.helsinki.fi/memory/raporte.html
Retrospektive Digitalisierung von Bibliotheksbeständen
A virtual library project for researchers, created by the network
of German libraries.
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_2/vdf/einstieg.htm
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