Europeana Regia presentation at eChallenges 2011 conference

A digital collaborative library of royal manuscripts Matthieu BONICEL Bibliothèque nationale de France

Motivation, problem area
5 partners, 2 national libraries, 1 state library, 2 academic libraries
30 months (January 2010 to June 2012)
Digitise 874 rare and precious manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (8 th to 16 th cent.)
Reconstruct digitally collections that have been dispersed
Provide Europeana with heritage content

Project Objectives
Build a multilingual metadata repository
Produce High-quality content for Europeana
Address both scholars and general public
Gather text and iconographic content

Collections
Carolingian Kings
Agaronese kings of Naples
Manuscripts of Charles V of France and his family
Bavarian State Library Clm 17011, around 860 Bibl. Ste Geneviève, Ms. 782, Chroniques de St Denis 1275-1280 Bibl. Historica Univ. Valencia, BH Ms. 50, Geometia magistri Thome Brdvardini, around 1480

Challenges
Produce and aggregate metadata in six languages
Cope with 3 different formats + ESE/EDM
Address both general public, school teachers and scholars, with different needs
Make all content avaliable to Europeana via a global aggregator

Metadata delivery and access BnF + France EAD BSB TEI HAB TEI BHUV MARC KBR TEI The European Library Aggregator Original languages www.europeanaregia.eu Project website (Drupal) In 6 languages ESE/EDM mapping Local digital libraries and catalogues Access to full digital surrogates and academic metadata in original language OAI and/or local format delivery Manual input to Drupal CMS Minimal metadata + thumbnail + link to original repository Minimal metadata + thumbnail + link to original repository

Limitations
No standardized multilingual format to describe manuscripts in different languages in local and distant systems
Need to do manual input (with drop-down lists) to DRUPAL
Undoubling of documents in European delivered both in project and national delivery/harvest
Full surrogates only on local digital libraries
No international standard for iconographic descriptions
Sustainability of project website

Conclusion and outlook
First content project for Europeana
Useful for harmonization of practices, both practicle and academic
Highlighting of special needs in digital heritage libraries : multilingual and standardized formats at different scales
Coordination and mutual improvement of different-scale libraries

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