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DIGIBÍS® Newsletter. No. 14. July-December, 2015

Information about enriched digitization, software for Libraries, Archives

and Museums and international standards.

SUMMARY

DIGICLICBoletín de DIGIBÍS ®

Managing DirectorTachi Hernando de Larramendi

Project DirectorXavier Agenjo Bullón

Director of Finance and AdministrationNuria Ruano Penas

IT Dept. DirectorJesús L. Domínguez Muriel

Art DirectorAntonio Otiñano Martínez

Sales DirectorJavier Mas García

Technology CoordinatorFrancisca Hernández Carrascal

AdministrationMaría Luz Ruiz Rodríguez (coord.)José María Alcega Barroeta

IT DepartmentFeli Matarranz de Antonio (coord.)Andrés Felipe Botero ZapataÁlvaro Cuesta ViñoloJulio Diago García

Andrés Moreno GarcíaLuis Panadero GuardeñoRafael Roldán TejedorFernando Román Ortega

Innovation DepartmentPaulo César Juanes Hernández (coord.)

Noemí Barbero UrbanoMaría Isabel Campillejo SuárezSusana Hernández RubioMontserrat Martínez Guerra

Digitization Department Francisco Viso Parra (coord.)María José Escuté SerranoAmando Martínez CatalánJavier Ramos AltamiraRicardo Vela Alegría

Documentation DepartmentIsabel Martín Tirado

Beatriz Pascual FernándezAlicia Varela Villafranca

Luis Fernando Méndez Prado

Sales DepartmentJosé María Tijerín Gómez

Coordination with the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation

Patricia Juez García

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Editorial 3

I N T E R N A T I O N A LEuropeanaEuropeana AGM 2015 4

ENUMERATEFinal Report 2015 5

GLAM APPLICATIONS Proprietary developmentsMETS update for 3D objects 6

Update of the Digital Library of Castile and Leon to DIGIBIB v.9.1 7

Hispana now holds over six million digital objects 8

Extremadura museums: migration of records to the Domus system 10

Complete management system for the Cultural Heritage of Extremadura 11

D IG I T IZAT IONSEnriched digitizationDigitization of the Rare Materialsof the Historical Library of Santa Cruz 12Digitization and cataloguing of the Archive of the Navy 13Digitization and cataloguing of the Army historical photography 14Digitization and cataloguing of thePontifical University of Salamanca 15NewsSEMERITAGE Innovation Project 16

DIGICLIC®. DIGIBÍS® Newsletter No. 14, July-December, 2016 3

EDITORIAL

I n 2015, DIGIBÍS was awarded three important contracts published bythe Red.es public company. In this issue of DIGICLIC, readers will get afull report of these.

The first one consisted in the cataloguing and digitization of a large partof the document collection of the Ministry of Defence, with the goal of be-coming integrated into the Virtual Library of Defence. This was achieved. The second contract served the purpose of creating an information sys-

tem for the digital heritage of Extremadura, by designing and implementinga virtual library, a virtual archive, and a metadata aggregator to collect allthe information into a repository, thereby contributing to the historical her-itage records of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura to Hispanaand, from there, to Europea na. This was also achieved.

The third one was also aimed at implementingmuseum records from Extremadura into the well-known DOMUS computer system. Even though itwas not a project based on the DIGIBÍS softwaresystem, our company performed its duties underthis the contract.It should be noted that deadlines were very

tight for all three projects. The project for the Ministry of Defence was

published in the middle of the summer and thetwo projects for Extremadura in the middle of au-tumn. Despite this, our company met the dead-lines to the full satisfaction of all parties.All of this, in addition to underscoring the ver-

satility of DIGIBÍS, i.e. cataloguing, digitization and implementation of pro-prietary computer solutions or support for third-party computer programs,also shows that, if this has been achieved, it is because DIGIBÍS is fullyaware of the fact that the goals of Red.es and those of the company are thesame: to help build information and communication technologies. This is allframed under the Digital Agenda for Spain.

DIGIBÍS is awarded the Red.es contracts

DIGIBÍS gives shape to the Red.es projects

for the Ministry ofDefence and the

Autonomous Communityof Extremadura

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EUROPEANA

INTERNATIONAL Europeana AGM 2015

T he 2015 Annual General Meeting of the Eu-ropeana Network Association, also calledthe Europeana AGM, took place on 3 and 4

November 2015 in Amsterdam, under the slogan“We are Europeana”. Max Kaiser, chairman of theEuropeana Network Association, opened the ses-sion with a marked spirit of optimism for Euro-peana’s achievements, and introduced the topicsto be addressed over the next two days, framed inthe general objectives of the 2016 Business Plan:Usable, Reciprocal and Reliable.Regarding the state of the Association, its fi-

nancial and organisational status was reviewedand the 2016 and 2017 Business Plans wereshown, in addition to the vision for Europeana for2020. The video with the presentation of the can-didates to Members of the Europeana Board wasvery well received. The 2016 Business Plan seeks to strengthen

and expand the role of Europeana as a reliable,open and reusable source of data for any type ofuser, from end users to cultural and creative in-dustries, including content providers and cultur-al-heritage professionals. As usual, the annual Europeana business plans

build upon seemingly simple general objectives tocreate a complex network of applications, proce-dures and guidelines. Thus, and directly related tothe four basic points of the Business Plan (creat-

ing value for members, improving data quality,opening data and strengthening the organisation),the Europeana Publishing Framework, the Euro-peana Statistics Dashboard and the results ofmeetings before the annual meeting, such as“Measuring the Impact of Europeana” and “Euro-peana turns five, so now what?”, as well as a sum-mary of the work performed by the EuropeanaTask Forces, were presented. Likewise and direct-ly linked to the objective of improving user experi-ence, the Europeana 280 project was presented,which aims to highlight 10 or so masterpieces ofthe 28 Member States of the European Union. We will highlight the presentation of the new

Europeana Publishing Framework, which intro-duced four levels of participation in Europeana: 1)Europeana as a search engine; 2) Europeana as ashowcase; 3) Europeana as a distribution plat-form for non-commercial re-use; 4) Europeana asa free re-use platform. Furthermore, the contentstrategy of the Europeana Publishing Frameworkrevolves around the active acquisition of content,by increasing the modalities for data intake andestablishing new quality criteria for metadata anddigital objects.The meeting ended with a fun launching of pa-

per planes where the dreams of attendees for Eu-ropeana in 2020 were written: Fly your EuropeanaDream.


ENUMERATE

INTERNATIONAL

I e June 2015, the ENUMERATE Core Survey 3was completed and a final report summaris-ing its findings is already available. This third

survey is the fourth largest study carried out re-garding the status of digitization in European cul-tural institutions to date. It is preceded by theENUMERATE Core Survey 1 and Core Survey 2 (in2011 and 2013, respectively), as well the study ofthe NUMERIC project from 2008, the seed ofthese general surveys.

Spain is among the most active participants

The survey, carried out between February andMay 2015, featured the participation of almost1,000 institutions from 31 European countries in13 different languages. With 194 responses, Spainonce again occupies one of the first places amongparticipants. As coordinator of the Spanish sur-vey, DIGIBÍS is enormously grateful for their col-laboration.

All the information is accessible through theENUMERATE Data Platform

All statistical reports and data gathered (complete-ly anonymous) through the different surveys areavailable and can be downloaded from the ENU-MERATE Data Platform, developed by DIGIBÍS. Cultural institutions will also find the Bench-

mark tool on this platform, where they can com-pare their performance indicators to those of oth-er national or European institutions.

Most significant statistical data

A gradual evolution can be observed, with growth,sometimes minimal, towards an increase of digi-tal and digitised objects, planning and resourcesused.• 84% of cultural heritage institutions maintaina certain digital collection (83% in Core Survey1 and 87% in Core Survey 2)

• 23% of collections have been digitised (20% inCore Survey 1 and 17% in Core Survey 2) and50% have not been digitised yet (57% in CoreSurvey 1 and 52% in Core Survey 2)

• 41% of institutions have developed a digitiza-tion strategy (34% in Core Survey 1 and 36% inCore Survey 2)

• 60% of cultural heritage institutions collectworks already created in digital formats (com-pared to 52% in Core Survey 1 and 53% in CoreSurvey 2)

• 91% of institutions analyse the use of theirdigital collections through web statistics (85%in Core Survey 1 and 91% in Core Survey 2)

• 26% of institutions have developed a writtenpreservation strategy supported by manage-ment at the centre (23% in Core Survey 1 and26% in Core Survey 2)

• An average of 33% of the staff of cultural her-itage institutions works full time in digitization(3.3% in Core Survey 1 and 33% in Core Survey 2)

Europeana creates the ENUMERATE Observatory

ENUMERATE has become part of the develop-ment of Europeana. For this purpose, this thirdsurvey was included in the Europeana v3 project,giving rise to the creation of the ENUMERATE Ob-servatory.

ENUMERATE: final report 2015


PROPRIETARYDEVELOPMENTS

GLAM

APPLICATIONS

O n 7 June 2015, version 1.11 of the METSstandard was published on the officialweb of the METS schema standard, up-

dating it with changes for the coding of objectsdigitised in 3D.The digitization service for 3D objects offered

by DIGIBÍS, through the application of photogram-metric and modelling techniques, incorporatesthe generation of METS files that are alreadyadapted to this new version of the schema.

Our applications include a viewer that sup-ports3D and high resolution

DIGIBÍS has developed a 3D viewer as an specificmodule for its DIGIBIB application. This 3D viewernot only allows users to rotate or move an objectin all directions but also includes high-resolutionvisualisation of any of its sides. This combinationmakes it possible to travel across the entire sur-

face of objects of a documentary interest, oftenmuseological, from any of its sides.High-resolution digitization and software pro-

cessing has allowed for images to be viewed at avery high resolution using the DIGIBIB, DIGIARCHand DIGIMÚS programs. In this way, materials like maps, especially

handwritten ones, can be zoomed in until userscan get a very clear and detailed image of thedigitised object. It is important to note that this is a module that

can be integrated into the general viewer for digi-tised documents and that allows for exploringdigitised images without the need to use a specif-ic plugin.

Images of the Félix Cañada Virtual Museum, implemented by DIGIMÚS, and of the Virtual

Library of Defence, with DIGIBIB.

METS update for 3D objects



GLAM

APPLICATIONS

I n the previous issue of DIGICLIC, we an-nounced the first virtual libraries updated toDIGIBIB version 9.1. The update continues

and more libraries are taking advantage of the se-mantic enrichment enabled by this new version.Among others, we can mention the Digital Libraryof Castile and Leon, another Spanish collectionenriched through Linked Open Data (LOD) that isalso accessible through Hispana and Europeana.Thus, through links to external LOD sources,

such as VIAF, DBpedia or the Subject Headings Listfor Public Libraries in SKOS, a “semantic layer” iscreated, which allows for enriching the descrip-tions of records –documents, people or institu-tions, places, subjects, etc.– and contextualisingthem.This enrichment is done through links to URIs,

included in the appropriate fields and subfields,which allow for identifying a resource unequivo-cally and produce richer descriptionswith greater informational value tousers and with the desired level of de-tail.Through the use of Linked Open Data

technology, in DIGIBIB 9.1, the toolused to manage the Digital Library ofCastile and Leon, digital resourcesstored in its database can benefit, anddo benefit, from the reuse of third-partyinformation, enriching internal datawith links and data from other sources.Furthermore, the new version of DI-

GIBIB includes automatic semantic en-richment routines from different LinkedOpen Data sources and complies withthe requirements of Europeana DataModel (EDM) 5.2.6, from December2014, a mandatory data model for theaggregation of resources into Euro-peana, which establishes: the use ofURIs to represent data obtained from

authority and bibliographic records; support forthe content-negotiation model; dynamic publish-ing and exporting of Europeana Data Model re-sources in RDF from bibliographic and authorityrecords; dynamic publishing and exporting ofsubject authority records through SKOS; and sup-port for the Europeana Data Model XML schema.Another notable innovation of DIGIBIB, which is

used by the Digital Library of Castile and Leon, isthe creation of microsites from bibliographic orauthority records. This way, users can browse the titles of the

Teresian Digital Library or search an item pub-lished by the Health or Environmental Council inthe Publications of the Regional Government ofCastile and León.

José de Acosta’s autority record in the Digital Library of Castile and León.

Update of the Digital Library ofCastile and León to DIGIBIB v. 9.1

I n our double issue of DIGICLIC in 2014, weannounced that Hispana held over five mil-lion digital objects and we are now pleased to

announce, 15 months later, that it has alreadyexceeded six million. This huge and very signifi-cant quantity of digital objects come from the 209OAI-PMH repositories harvested by HISPANA,the national aggregator of digital objects main-tained by the Sub-Directorate General of LibraryCoordination, attached to the State Secretariatfor Culture of the Ministry of Education, Cultureand Sport.

Hispana works with DIGIHUB

Hispana operates with the DIGI-HUB application developed by DI-GIBÍS, which allows not only for ag-gregating content from otherrepositories but also acts like anOAI-PMH repository at the sametime, which enables other aggre-gators like Europeana or OAIster toaggregate its data. In this fashion,the records achieve greater dis-semination at the same time asthey enrich and become enrichedwith data from other virtual li-braries that comply with the inter-national standards for informationexchange.

Constant growth

Despite these years not havingbeen the most conducive to budg-etary joys, Hispana has managed togrow at a rate of approximately onemillion records per year since2010. The progress, which is shownin the graph on the upper right, hasbeen as follows:

• January 2010: 121 repositories and1,171,417 digital objects• January 2011: 144 repositories and2,688,861 digital objects• January 2012: 160 repositories and3,264,093 digital objects• January 2013: 183 repositories and4,287,082 digital objects• October 2014: 207 repositories and5,071,542 digital objects• December 2015: 209 repositories and6,028,415 digital objects



GLAM

APPLICATIONS Hispana now holds over six

DIGITALE OBJECTS

REPOSITORIES

For several years, Hispana has been the sec-ond largest aggregator for Europeana. Hispana iscurrently in sixth place, very close to the fourthand the fifth, Openup! and the Digitale Collectie,but it is the largest national aggregator in the Eu-ropean Union, contributing over 2,400,000records. Out of these, a percentage largely ex-ceeding 50% reaches Europeana from the digitallibraries using management applications devel-oped by DIGIBÍS.

With DIGIHUB from the outset

The Hispana project was put into production inearly 2005, with 25 repositories and close to120,000 digital objects. From the outset, it hasfeatured an OAI-PMH repository and an OAI-PMHharvester, thanks to the DIGIHUB managementsystem, which facilitates the automatic inclusionof entries harvested by the aggregator in therepository.DIGIHUB also allows Hispana to aggregate the

records of OAI-PMH repositories according to the

Dublin Core metadata structure, which is theminimum required by OAI-PMH, as well as allmetadata schemas used by the records of the dif-ferent repositories. Hispana also uses the DIGI-HUB SRU module, which allows for accessingstored data.

The OAI-PMH protocol must be extended

Despite this, the percentage of OAI repositoriespresent in Hispana continues to be low (see the“Repositories” graph): out of the 622 digital col-lections in Hispana, only 209 –one third– have anOAI repository. At DIGIBÍS, we are convinced that the incen-

tives and aid policies of the Ministry of Education,Culture and Sport will result not only in a greaternumber of digital objects but also in an increasein the number of OAI repositories in our country,which will boost the Spanish contribution to Euro-peana. In any case, Spain is complying with theEuropean Directive through its policy for the digi-tization and preservation of cultural heritage.



GLAM

APPLICATIONS

million digital objects

Hispana channels theSpanish

contribution toEuropeana and is its

largest nationalcontributor


R ed.es, a public company, and the FEDEREuropean Fund launched a call for tendersin October 2015 for a “Service for the cre-

ation of inventory records of museums and her-itage managed by the Regional Government of Ex-tremadura in the DOMUS integrated documenta-tion and museum management system”. This callfor tenders was a consequence of a collaborationagreement signed in July 2014 between the M -inistry of Education, Culture and Sport (MECD) andthe Council of Education and Culture of the Au-tonomous Community of Extremadura, on the ma -tter of the joint operation of the DOMUS museummanagement application and the exchange of in-

formation through it to provide technical supportto museums held by the state and with transferredmanagement, as well as the Network of Museumsand Permanent Museum Exhibits.The project entailed the migration to the DO-

MUS museum management system of: 21,867records of the Museum of Caceres, 3,000 recordsof the Extremadura and Latin American Museum

of Contemporary Art (MEIAC) and 801 records ofthe Inventory of Goods of the Institutional Collec-tion of the Autonomous Government of Ex-tremadura, from databases in Access 2007, 2008and 2013, as well as in Filemaker 5.5, along withthe migration and generation of existing images.DIGIBÍS, aware of the importance of museum

management –it has not developed the DIGIMÚSapplication in vain– tendered and was awardedthe contract. Despite this not being a proprietaryproduct of the company, as the DOMUS softwareis owned by the MECD, DIGIBÍS adapted and com-pleted the four phases of the project: defining andplanning the project in detail; defining the record-creation strategy; creating 25,668 records in theDOMUS system; and training museum managersin the DOMUS museum management system.

Museum collections in CER.ES

Thanks to this agreement between the MECD andthe Council of Education and Culture of Extremadu-ra, the museum collections of Extremadura arenow available through the CER.ES portal (onlinecollections).


GLAM

APPLICATIONS Extremadura museums: migration

of records to the DOMUS system

DIGIBÍS was able toadapt to DOMUS and complete all project phases

O n 28 October 2015, Red.es, apublic company, issued a callfor tenders supported by the

FEDER European fund, for the “Supplyand implementation of a digital electronicarchive for the digital cultural heritage ofExtremadura”.As specified in the Technical Require-

ments, it requested the supply and imple-mentation of a management system forthe digital cultural heritage of Ex-tremadura, made up of an integratedecosystem of repositories that would beinteroperable across the Hispana and Eu-ropeana platforms. The set of systemsneeded to offer:

• A dissemination and harvesting sys-tem featuring an OAI-PMH harvesterand repository, web and administrationmodules and a directory of Digital Col-lections;• A digital library management system withdifferent web modules: administration, digital-object management and metadata manage-ment; and• A digital archive management system featur-ing, like the library system, a web module, anadministration module, and a digital-objectand metadata management module.

A complete system made up of DIGIBIB, DIGIA-RCH and DIGIHUB

DIGIBÍS submitted its bid, offering its threemanagement systems: DIGIHUB 4.1 as a harvest-ing and dissemination system; DIGIBIB 9.1 fordigital-library management; and DIGIARCH Web 3for digital-archive management. These three sys-tems are completely interoperable with Hispanaand Europeana, thanks to the application and use

of the necessary protocols and standards(MARC21, EAD3, METS, Dublin Core, EuropeanaSemantic Elements, Europeana Data Model, SRUand OAI-PMH). The interesting cultural heritage of the

archives and libraries of Extremadura, such asthe privilegios of Philip IV, the sketches of sculp-ture, the urban maps and plans of buildings or the“Allegationes iuris”, often already digitised andwhich remained inaccessible to the public, willsoon be available to any user, in Spain or interna-tionally, thanks to this triple management systemfor the digital culture of Extremadura



GLAM

APPLICATIONS

Complete management system for the Cultural Heritage of Extremadura

Results page corresponding to a digital object belonging to the

collections of figurative documents of the Provincial Historical Archive of Caceres in the section of “Maps,

plans, sketches and drawings”.


ENRICHEDDIGITISAZION

DIGITIZATIONS

A set of works from the Rare Materials pre-served at the Historical Library of Santa

Cruz, in the University of Valladolid, was digitisedby DIGIBÍS during the summer of 2015. The Library of Santa Cruz, founded in 1483,

holds many works published before 1835. Thiscollection of digitised works includes incunabulaand rare prints dated between the last quarter ofthe 15th century and the early 16th century.

The corresponding metadata files were gene -rated for all digitised documents, specifically:METS with PREMIS, METSRights, MARCXML,ISO2709 and DC. The results were validated withJHOVE.The digitised works include a manuscript of

the 15th century of Epistles from Seneca to hisgood friend Lucilius; three manuscript reportsby Gregorio Mayáns y Siscar, the author of thefirst biography of Cervantes, printed in 1738, towhom the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation dedi-cated a CD-ROM that DIGIBÍS adapted to createan Author Library in the Digital Library of Valen-

cia; or the Falaris Letters, known as Pseudo-Falaris and attributed to the King of Agrigento inthe 6th century BC, a king renowned for his cru-elty who eventually became renowned for hiswisdom.

Digitization of the Rare Materials ofthe Historical Library of Santa Cruz

Above, the beginning of a text from In Aristotelis Analytica posteriora commentum, by Aegidus Romanum, of 1478; Below, digitization of the fore edge of the book Opus sermonu[m] trip[ar]titum…, by Meffreth, of 1487.

The latest versions ofthe METS and PREMISformats were used


ENRICHEDDIGITIZATION

DIGITIZATIONS

T he Ministry of Defence, along with the pub-lic company Red.es, issued a call for ten-ders for the “Services of documentary de-

scription, digital preservation and availability ofthe cultural heritage ofthe Ministry of De-fence” in the summerof 2015. As the contractawardee, DIGIBÍS car-ried out the digitization,description and digitalpreservation tasks ofthe stock preserved inthe General Archive ofthe Navy and the Muse-um of the Army.The “Álvaro de Ba -

zán” General Archive,created by a Decree of1948 as a single histori-cal archive to collect allthe stock of the Arma-da, keeps a large portion of the documents aboutthe maritime activities of the Armada from the late18th to the early 20th century. The documents mentioned include those of the

Section of the Expedition to the Indies, which werepart of the collection described and digitised byDIGIBÍS. This is a documentary collection, mostlyofficial notices, which belongs to the stock of theSecretariat of State and the Office of the Navy, andwhich is of great interest to study the independ-ence of Spanish America.

Over nine thousand handwritten documents.

A total of 91 files were digitised. Over nine thou-sand handwritten documents and files were digi-tised and, once described (using the METS for-mat) and digitised, they were incorporated intothe Virtual Library of Defence. Given the peculiar-

ity of this Section on Expeditions to the Indies, amicrosite was created with their name, which canbe viewed independently from the rest of the Vir-tual Library. .

Digitization and cataloguingof the Archive of the Navy

Bibliographic record of the manuscript “Sobre el capitán de fragata Lorenzo Noriega comisionado por Venadito para traer pliegos e

informar verbalmente… (29-04-1822/25-05-1822)” and close-up of its first page.


A s a result of the call for tenders men-tioned in the previous page, “Services ofdocumentary description, digital preser-

vation and availability of the cultural heritage ofthe Ministry of Defence”, published by Red.es forthe Ministry of Defence, with the help of the FED-ER European fund, DIGIBÍS carried out the digiti-zation and description of a collection of historicalphotography kept at the Museums of the Army.This is a collection of great relevance within

the institution, due to its great thematic andtechnical heterogeneity, which includes itemsranging from a daguerrotype dated 1852 with aportrait of General Ramón María Cabrera, in-cluding a panoramic photograph of the KruppFactory in Essen (1870) or Cartes de visite –“visitcards” with portraits of political, military or royalpersonalities–, to slides and glass plates show-ing objects and rooms of the old Museum of theArmy in Madrid, or the collections of BUFA pho-tographs and and the Blue Division of the SecondWorld War.All formats were digitised by DIGIBÍS at a reso-

lution level optimal for each of them, which willalso allow for their long-term preservation, giventhe fragility of some of them.Readers can access and browse this magnifi-

cent photograph collection from the micrositethat the Virtual Library of Defence hascreated on its website.

ENRICHEDDIGITISAZION

DIGITIZATIONS Digitization and cataloguing of

the Army historical photography

I n May 2015, DIGIBÍS completed the processfor the digitization and generation of metada-ta of 37,767 pages corresponding to 84 works

of the Pontifical University of Salamanca.

These digital objects will be harvested soonand added to the records of the Pontifical Univer-sity in Hispana and Europeana.The advanced digitization service offered by DI-

GIBÍS consisted, in addition to the digitization ofimages themselves, in the semantic enrichment ofauthority records with Linked Open Data sources

(VIAF, Dbpe dia, Subject Headings List) and in thegeneration of metadata schemas, which includedDublin Core, METS with PREMIS and MARCXML.All digital objects will be available in Hispana andEuropeana.Enriched, expert or advanced digitization by

DIGIBÍS entails the creation of metadata and theapplication of the digitization, preservation anddissemination standards necessary to give visi-bility to the digital objects and facilitate the ex-change of information with other libraries andarchives.


ENRICHEDDIGITIZATION

DIGITIZATIONS

Digitization and cataloguing of thePontifical University of Salamanca

Below, left, frontispice and cover of the History of the Old and New Testaments..., known as the Royaumont Bible

(1841); to the right, In Evangelium Lucae paraphrasisErasmi Roterodami… (1525). Above, detail of Ortographia

tractatus (1493), by Ioannis Tortelli.

Over 37 000 pages digitised


EL TÍTULOEN VERSALITAS

I n 2014, DIGIBÍS, as a company active in R&D&I,as evidenced by its AENOR certificates receivedyear after year, developed a line of work called

“SEMERITAGE: Digital Cultural Heritage in the Se-mantic Web”. As in previous years, this certificationwas deemed worthy of a reasoned report from theMinistry of Science and Innovation. DIGIBÍS is constantly monitoring the situation

of archives, libraries and museums at an interna-tional level and has defined its general strategy byfocusing on the contribution of digital content toEuropeana. The 2014 DIGIBÍS Innovation project focused on

the development of technology and products thatallowed for the disseminaiton of digital culturalheritage on the semantic web in accordance withthe Europeana strategy for the 2020 Horizon: ex-ploring the value of its resources, linking them toother existing resources on the web and improv-ing its semantic capabilities.

Semeritage: Semantic Heritage

Thus, in line with the development of both Euro-peana and the Digital Public Library of America(DPLA), DIGIBÍS focuses its Seremitage innova-tion project on the Semantic Web of digital cultur-al heritage.

To do so, its goals are:

• To apply new data models adapted to the dataweb or the semantic web, such as RDA orBIBFRAME, which entails the use of LinkedOpen Data (LOD)• To promote the reuse of content, both from col-lections and from controlled vocabularies andauthority records, which is linked to full compat-ibility with the Europeana Data Model (EDM)• To incorporate new ways of presenting inter-nal and external data, such as RDF datasources, which allow for greater and better useof digital cultural heritage• To develop search systems compatible withdifferent writing systems, through the use ofthe Unicode standard• To promote the use of digitised cultural her-itage at all levels of education and research inthe humanities and social sciences

The development and achievement of all theabove represents a considerable advantage toclients and users of the programs developed byDIGIBÍS (DIGIBIB, DIGIARCH, DIGIMÚS and DIGI-HUB), as they specialise in the management, dis-seminaiton and preservation of digital culturalheritage in the semantic web.

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