DIGITIZATION IN THE CZECHLANDS AND MANUSCRIPTORIUM DIGITAL LIBRARY Zdeněk Uhlíř National Library of the Czech Republic Budapest
pilot CD for the UNESCO programme Nenory of the World starting digitization in the National library of the Czech Republic and in the Czechlands as well books represented by a selection of one or more images and by brief descriptive metadata records
INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL 1995 – two CDs as first attempts to create virtual book since 1996 systemic digitization – DOBM – elementary standard for creating compound digital document 1999 – DOBM became UNESCO recommendation
NATIONAL LEVEL – MASTER – standard for electronic manuscript descriptive records 2000 – Czech national digitization programme Memoriae mundi series Bohemica – implementtion of MASTER in the ctaloguing workflow in the Ntional Library of the Czech Republic 2002 – MASTER+ - extension for compound digitl document 2002 – dissemination to the Central Europe (especially Slovakia)
CENTRAL EUROPEAN LEVEL – MASTER based open catalogue of historical collections – MASTER+ based Manuscriptorium digital library – conversion of all already done compound digital documents into Manuscriptorium 2006 – accessibility in Manuscriptorium as obligatory output of the Memoriae mundi series Bohemica programme
EUROPEAN LEVEL – ENRICH project TEI P5 ENRICH Specification – standard for both descriptive amd structural metadata substantial enriching (five times) of the Manuscriptorium content
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT – REDISCOVER project – EMBARK project – CENDARI project Manuscriptorium personalized environment (My Library) heuristic tools (virtual document, virtual collection) scholarly tools (vectoral comparison of full texts) on-line services – comparison of full texts
FUTURE... integration in European medievalist network (CENDARI project) Manuscriptorium research & development: graphemic variants, ontologies, thesauri, utomtic creation of metadata concerning content of images, medievl music trnscriptions, etc. interntional collaboration: HTR (handwritten text recognition)
THANK YOU ♥☺♥ Zdeněk Uhlíř