Digitization at the Heidelberg University Library: the digital Bibliotheca Palatina project

The world-famous Bibliotheca Palatina holds more than 3.000 medieval manuscripts, which are today divided between the Vatican Library in Rome and the Heidelberg University Library. This article discusses the academic, technical, and organizational challenges and solutions for a digitization project...

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Main Author: Probst, Veit (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: [2018]
In: Digital Philology
Year: 2017, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 213-233
ISSN:2162-9552
DOI:10.1353/dph.2017.0011
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Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689451
Verlag, Volltext: http://doi.org/10.1353/dph.2017.0011
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Author Notes:Veit Probst
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Summary:The world-famous Bibliotheca Palatina holds more than 3.000 medieval manuscripts, which are today divided between the Vatican Library in Rome and the Heidelberg University Library. This article discusses the academic, technical, and organizational challenges and solutions for a digitization project that is now drawing to its close. Its goal has been to digitally reconstruct the Bibliotheca Palatina and to make it available, as one single online edition, to scholars all over the world, with new opportunities for access and research
Item Description:Gesehen am 04.04.2018
Physical Description:Online Resource
ISSN:2162-9552
DOI:10.1353/dph.2017.0011