Digitisation for access to preserved documents
Today the digitisation of our collections is a goal for libraries all over Europe. The choices we make in digitisation and preservation now will have a significant impact on the future. Do we only emphasise access? How do we enable access and preserve our originals in a qualitative and productive wa...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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openjournals.nl
2003-06-01
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| Series: | Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries |
| Online Access: | http://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7726/ |
| Summary: | Today the digitisation of our collections is a goal for libraries all over Europe. The choices we make in digitisation and preservation now will have a significant impact on the future. Do we only emphasise access? How do we enable access and preserve our originals in a qualitative and productive way? What will actually be left of our cultural heritage in the next millennium? In this paper I am going to look at promoting access to preserved originals mirrored by the experience at the Helsinki University Library, the National Library of Finland: · Preservation activities as platform for digitisation and OCR · Processing access to collections · The future - looking ahead |
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| ISSN: | 2213-056X |