Course aimed at librarians to learn how to enhance the library heritage by printing facsimiles from digital files.

1. Facsimiles printing:
innovative dissemination of cultural heritage
Paolo Tentori Alessandro Milani
novantiqua multimedia

2. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
We continue the refresher courses for librarians with the aim of improving
the techniques of public dissemination of cultural heritage. This time we
focus on the digital printing of ancient books available for rights in terms
of the ‘public domain’.
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3. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
The concept of public domain gives us the opportunity to freely use the
cultural material by putting it together with other witnesses described to
create thematic exhibitions focusing them on many different topics.
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4. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
A site useful for this purpose is that of the Qatar National Library that in
partnership with the British Library and the Qatar Foundation has created
the project of the ‘Qatar Digital Library’: https://www.qdl.qa/en/about.
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5. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
Among the beautiful books available in public domain we chose the co-
smology of Zakariya al-Qazwini, full of illustrations and studied by Stefa-
no Carboni with a book published by the Edinburgh University Press.
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medium=pdf&utm_campaign=PDFdownload

6. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
After downloading the PDF we have simply optimized the images for
printing, keeping the original format (300 x 192 mm leaf - 248 x 165 mm
written).
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medium=pdf&utm_campaign=PDFdownload

7. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
An expert graphic librarian created an original cover with the title of the
book in Arabic and Italian (another cover will be in Arabic and English).
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medium=pdf&utm_campaign=PDFdownload

8. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
An expert graphic librarian created an original cover with the title of the
book in Arabic and Italian (another cover will be in Arabic and English).
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medium=pdf&utm_campaign=PDFdownload

9. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
All that remains is to assemble pages and cover to get a full-size copy of
the book.
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medium=pdf&utm_campaign=PDFdownload

10. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
We will use the book in an exhibition on the Islamic culture of the Middle
Ages compared to the Western culture of the same period.
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11. Fondi antichi e metadati: ottimizzazione dei costi Novantiqua Multimedia 2018
Thanks for watching!
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