Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000 Informal meeting on e-Europe European digital content for global networks and co-ordinating mechanisms

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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
on e-Europe European digital content for global
networks and co-ordinating mechanisms
European Digital Content National situation in
Spain
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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
on e-Europe European digital content for global
networks and co-ordinating mechanisms

• Competent Institutions
• Secretariat of State for Culture, which is a
  Department of the Ministry of Education, Culture
  and Sport
• http//www.mcu.es/homemcu.html
• Competent bodies in The Autonomous Communities
• Historical Heritage Institutes
• Competent bodies in local Corporations.
• Ministry of Science and Technology

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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
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• Depending on the Secretariat of State for
  Culture
• Museo del Prado
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
• Biblioteca Nacional
• State Museums (18)
• State Archives (11)

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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
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• Initiatives and projects
• Museums
• Museo del Prado
• http//museoprado.mcu.es/index.html
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
• http//museoreinasofia.mcu.es
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
• http//www.museothyssen.org
• Others museums
• http//www.mcu.es/bbaa/index.html

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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
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• Initiatives and projects
• Heritage
• HEREIN project http//www.european-heritage.net
• Spanish Bibliographic Heritage Union Catalogue
• http//www.mcu.es/ccpb/ccpb-eng.html

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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
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networks and co-ordinating mechanisms

• Initiatives and projects
• Archives
• AER project (Archivos Estatales en Red)
• Access to state archival collections.
• (First stage Archivo General Indias and
  Archivo Histórico Nacional)
• Plug-in for accesing to digital images of
  documents
• http//www.mcu.es/lab/archivos/index.html

Avalaible in a short time
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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
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networks and co-ordinating mechanisms
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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
on e-Europe European digital content for global
networks and co-ordinating mechanisms
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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
on e-Europe European digital content for global
networks and co-ordinating mechanisms

• Biblioteca Nacional MEMORIA HISPÁNICA
• Memoria Hispanica is the generic name given to
  the Spanish National Library's digitisation
  project
• ADMYTE (1992) Digital Archive of Spanish
  Manuscripts and Texts This project involved the
  digitisation of 63 of the Library's incunabula
  and their subsequent publication on CD-ROM
• Heráldica Heráldica contains the scanned texts
  of the most consulted Spanish repertoire and also
  includes coats of arms
• Clásicos Tavera. The aim of the Tavera Classics
  project is the digital reproduction of 150
  volumes of CD ROMs of more than 5,000 printed
  works from the 16th to 19th centuries, considered
  crucial as sources of learning about the history
  of Spain, Portugal, Latin America and the
  Philippines

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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
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networks and co-ordinating mechanisms

• Biblioteca Nacional MEMORIA HISPÁNICA
• GOYA The 250th anniversary of Goya's birth was
  the occasion of a major exhibition in 1996 and an
  exhaustive catalogue was produced for it. A
  CD-ROM was published containing the images from
  all the works in the National Library's care
  (engravings and drawings)
• TESOROS DE LA B.N. Treasures of the Spanish
  National Library is a critical edition on the
  historical and cultural background and origins of
  the work and content of unique National Library
  treasures. The CD-ROM collection has commenced
  with Per Abat's manuscript of Cantar del Mio Cid,
  the manuscript of G.A. Bécquer's El Libro de los
  Gorriones and the Beato de Liébana the
  illustrated copies of commentaries on the Book of
  Revelations by the monk known as Beatus of
  Liébana

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Luxembourg 15-16 November 2000Informal meeting
on e-Europe European digital content for global
networks and co-ordinating mechanisms

• Biblioteca Nacional MEMORIA HISPÁNICA
• FRONTERAS PARALELAS It is a project in
  association with the Library of Congress for
  digitisation of Historical works relating to
  Spain and America in the 19th century.
• CERVANTES VIRTUAL digitisation of more than
  4.000 classical works of spanish literature (text
  and image)
• http//www.bne.es

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• Key issues
• Lack of human resources for information projects
• Need for special funding for digitisation
  projects
• Information retrieval
• It is important to establish common standards
  for
• - Structures (ISBD, MARC, ISAD-G,)
• - Documentary languages (Thesaurus)
• - Retrieval standards (XML)
• Obsolescence of supports
• Legal issues (intellectual property, protection)