Summary: Since 2001, The NCL has initiated the digitization project aiming at preserving rare books and providing public access. The “Digital Image Database” includes two parts: one is the scanned images of NCL’s rare books collection; the other is the NCL’s international collaborations of the digitalization project of Chinese… Read More
Summary: The University of Maryland Libraries hold the Gordon W. Prange Collections, the most comprehensive collection of Japanese-language materials published between 1945-1949, the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan. The University of Maryland and the National Diet Library collaborated on the digitization of the Collection and making the materials available to… Read More
Summary: This was a joint project between the National Diet Library (NDL) and the Library of Congress (LC). The NDL, which has extensive experience digitizing Japanese-language materials, collaborated with the LC in the digitizing and making available to users of rare materials from the collections of the LC Asian… Read More
Summary: The project consists in examining, collecting and digitising Korea-related materials located overseas so as to establish a Korean Studies research information infrastructure and preserve a cultural heritage to be passed on to the future generation. Type of Project: The documents come from a wide range of… Read More
Summary: The project concerned the publication of the relevant digitised manuscripts of the ZJJF Hans E Jahnke bequest in the online catalogue of the National Library of Ireland. The project fulfils the desire of the donor to ensure that the manuscripts are accessible to scholars, while respected the… Read More
Summary: Europeana Regia aimed at creating a European corpus of digitised mostly illuminated manuscripts, testimonies of the circulation of texts and art in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with a focus on the beginning of European culture in the Carolingian time. Read More
Summary: The project aimed to bring Glagolitic texts closer to the public and ensure its recognition and preservation as world heritage by bringing all available content into one place. It provides access to valuable manuscripts, rare books and other material freely available to researchers and… Read More
On 17 May 2019, after several years of discussion, the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was published in the official journal of the European Union. It enters into force on 20 June 2019, which marks the beginning of a two-year period for member states to change their laws in order to meet the objectives of the directive. Read More
Summary: Led by the British Library from 2005 to 2011, this project concerns a single document. The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the earliest biblical manuscripts. Because of its complex history, parts of the manuscript are now scattered across four libraries. A partnership agreement… Read More
UNESCO PERSIST and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) have collaborated to produce the UNESCO/DPC Executive Guide on Digital Preservation, an online resource for raising awareness of the importance of digital preservation, leading to action to preserve digital assets, including digital documentary heritage, in an institution, organization or government. Read More