MANUSCRIPTORIUM: COOPERATING, NETWORKING, VIRTUALIZING Zdeněk Uhlíř National Library of the Czech Republic Zagreb

THE IDEA OF MANUSCRIPTORIUM an aggregation of data an integration of services a personalisation of scholarly work a virtualisation of environment

FROM THE HISTORY… 1991/2 – first attempts 1995/6 – the beginning of a systematic digitization in the Czech NL 2003/4 – creating Manuscriptorium as an aggregated resource 2007/9 – a fundamental step to the European (eventually global) level

PROJECTS individual steps in the progress of building Manuscriptorium specific tasks concerning  an aggregation of data  an integration of services  a personalisation of environment  a virtualisation of scholarly work

MASTER ( ) acronym: Manuscript Access through STandard for Electronic Records full partners  De Montfort University, Leicester, UK  Oxford University Computing Services, UK  Institut de Recherche et d´Histoire des Textes, France  Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands  Copenhagen University, Denmark  National Library of the Czech Republic, Czechlands

VICODI ( ) acronym: VIsual COntextualisation of DIgital content full partners  SYSTRAN, s.a., France  RIDEMO, s.i.a., Latvia  Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H., Austria  Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe, Germany  University of Newcastle, UK  National Library of the Czech Republic, Czechlands  University of East Anglia, UK

COMTOOCI ( ) acronym: COMputational TOOls for the librarian and philological work in Cultural Institution full partners  Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy  Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria  National Library of the Czech Republic, Czechlands  Institute for Bulgarian Language, Sofia, Bulgaria

ECH: TOPICC ( ) acronym: Endangered Cultural Heritage: TOols for Preservation, Invetsigation, and Coypright Clearance full partners  Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania  Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania  Public Company Visoriai Information Technologies Park, Vilnius, Lithuania  National Library of the Czech Republic, Czechlands  iTEL, Informatics & Telematics Ltd/ R&D Unit, Athens, Greece  Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI), Xanthi, Greece  Business Systems International SA, Athens, Greece  Narcea Producciones Multimedia S.L, Madrid, Spain  Videostudio of Rezekne Higher School, Latvia  Kolonasata museum of Fr. Trasuns, Latvia  Graphical data processing centre, Rostock, Germany

ENRICH ( ) acronym: European Networking Resources and Information Concerning Cultural Heritage full partners  National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czechlands  Cross Czech, a.s., Czechlands  AiP Beroun, s.r.o., Czechlands  Oxford University Computing Services, UK  Centro per la communicazione e l´integrazione dei media, Florence, Italy  SYSTRAN, s.a., Paris, France  Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania  National Library of Spain, Madrid, Spain  Nordic Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark  Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Florence, Italy  University Library, Wrocław, Poland  Arne Magnusson Institute, Reyskjavík, Iceland  Computer Science fot the Humanities, Cologne, Germany  St. Pölten Diocese Archive, Austria  National and University Library of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland  University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary  Supercomputing and Networking Centre, Poznań, Poland  University Library, Vilnius, Lithuania

REDISCOVER ( ) acronym: REunion of DISpersed COntent: Virtual Evaluation and Reconstruction full partners  National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czechlands  National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania  National Library of Poland, Warsaw, Poland  National Library of Romania, Bucharest, Romania

EMBARK ( ) acronym: Enhance Manuscriptorium through BAlkan Recovered Knowledge full partners  National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czechlands  Veria Central Public Library, Veria, Greece  Institute for Bulgarian Language, Sofia, Bulgaria  National Library of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

LEVELS OF RESOURCE BUILDING an aggregation of data an integration of services a personalised tools and speheres  catalogue records  images  full texts  music notation  comparison of full texts  comparison of images a virtual environment

AN AGGREGATION OF DATA database and information system relating to the end user not a mere replica of a physical library surpasses significantly the opportunities that were offered by the traditional scientific infrastructure descriptive metadata, i.e. catalogue entries, are aggregated, and they are converted to a uniform format joint search finds manuscripts

AN INTEGRATION OF SERVICES service is a new concept in relation to the manuscript sphere it already affects some elements of actual research work whatever exists only in traditional printed or written and other, simply analogue form does not exist

PERSONALISED TOOLS AND SPHERES a user´s own digital space a possibility to accumulate the results of previous work one’s own tools for acquiring results as well as for their further processing and subsequent utilisation for himself/herself to other selected persons to all users

CATALOGUE RECORDS variants of descriptive records  a subject specific a musicology a history of arts  analytical descriptions in-depth description of manuscript content composition/structure of intellectual units of higher level individual intellectual units of lower levels

IMAGES black & white optimisation details UV scanning (for palimpsests) …

FULLTEXTS a fluid text a contextual edition

A MUSIC NOTATION a written record of music a text in the semiotic meaning an edition in a similar sense like a textual edition

A COMPARISON OF FULLTEXTS based on vectoral statistics working with XML, HTML, TXT a numerical-statistical representation of results a graphical representation of results

A COMPARISON OF IMAGES distinguishing and selecting: a text, a music notation, an illumination, a border, a diagramm, a table finding the same or a very similar illumination finding the same or a very similar detail of illumination finding a similar composition of figurative and/or non-figurative illumination …

A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT a virtualisation of knowledge a path of how to uncover implicit, not only explicit, features of the objects culturomics back to the digitisation of the written and a documentary heritage

THE FUTURE… continuing the same way  a cooperation with more and more partners an aggregation of data and metadata  a more close network an integration of services  a virtualisation of the networked digital environment a personal space external tools an interoperabilty webservices

THANK YOU ♥☺♥ Zdeněk Uhlíř