presentation of europeana regia at "the message of the old book in the new environment"...
DESCRIPTION
In March, Europeana Regia was presented in Paris at the international seminar “The Message of the Old Book in the New Environment”, organized by the Finnish Research Library Association and the Institut Finlandais en France during the 2011 Paris Book Fair (18-19 March 2011). Following a general overview of the project, this presentation focused mainly on the development of the Europeana Regia website, where it will be possible to consult the manuscripts in the context of their historical collections through a multilingual interface.TRANSCRIPT
A digital collaborative library of medieval
manuscripts
Elizabeth MacDonaldBibliothèque nationale de France, Department of
Manuscripts
Europeana Regia aims to…
establish standards for similar projects in the future (metadata, digitization processes)
reconstruct in a virtual setting royal collections of manuscripts, which are dispersed throughout Europe today
Europeana Regia
Manuscripts will be fully accessible on the websites of the partner libraries:
• online catalogues
• digital libraries
Metadata will be integrated into Europeana
874 manuscripts = 307 904 images
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
Bibliotheca Carolina
425 manuscripts
135 334 images
8th and 9th centuries
The largest and oldest of the 3 collections
Includes manuscripts from important abbeys and monastic schools in the Carolingian Empire: Reichenau, Wissembourg, Saint-Denis, Freising, Corbie, Saint-Amand, Reims
Library of Charles V and his Family
167 manuscripts
70 520 images
14th century
Reconstruction of the first French royal library
Representative of the diffusion of texts through copies in the courts of France, England, Burgundy and Flanders
Includes manuscripts belonging to Jean de Berry and Louis d’Orléans
Library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples
282 manuscripts
102 050 images
15th and early 16th centuries
“A unique concentration of masterworks of French, Venetian, Neapolitan, Lombard, and Spanish illumination”
Manuscripts and early printed books; however, only the manuscripts will be digitized for this project
PROJECT FUNDING AND TASK DISTRIBUTION
Funding
Project budget: 3 400 000 €
Grant from the European Commission under the Information and Communication Technology Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP)• half of the project’s budget: 1 700 000 €
Task Distribution
The project has been divided into 6 Work Packages, as follows:
WP 1: Monitoring and Management
WP 2: Specification of Metadata
Task Distribution
WP 3: Provision, Integration and Updating of Metadata
WP 4: Digitization
WP 5: Integration of Images
WP 6: Dissemination
PROJECT PARTNERS
Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België – Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Biblioteca Històrica de la Universitat de València
Herzog August Bibliothek
Other participating libraries
will digitize a number of manuscripts within the scope of the project:–municipal libraries of Amiens, Angers,
Besançon, Bourges, Grenoble, Louviers, Reims, Rouen and Valenciennes
– Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève– Bibliothèque de Mazarine– Société des lettres, sciences et arts de
l’Aveyron in Rodez
Other participating libraries
will provide links to their own images:• British Library • Château de Chantilly• municipal library of Lyon
Other international partners such as e-codices (Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland) will also be linked to the project
ONE YEAR INTO THE PROJECT
Since January 2010…
Decisions taken:
metadata specifications have been determined
aggregator chosen for Europeana: The European Library (TEL)
Since January 2010…
Advances and achievements:
digitization
metadata
first images and metadata will be added to Europeana by June 2011
website online
EUROPEANA REGIA WEB PORTAL
Europeana Regia Web Portal
Two purposes:
• Project website• Platform to present manuscripts
Multilingual resource
Manuscripts can be consulted in the context of the collections to which they once belonged
Project Evolution
Static site – XHTML and CSSonline since late November 2010current version: http://www.europeanaregia.eu
Dynamic site – built with Drupal CMScurrently in its final testing phasewill go live in early April 2011
COMING SOON…
Presentation of manuscripts
core metadata for each manuscript in the project
links to full academic metadata and complete digital document on each library’s website
presented in all 6 project languages
projected release date: May 2011
Issues and challenges
Multilingualism
Search
Manuscript metadata: input on website
More about Europeana Regia:
www.europeanaregia.eu
and on
www.facebook.com/pages/Europeana-Regia/267940481474
Thank you for listening!