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Notes de l'éditeur
In 2007 Romania joins EU and agrees to adjust its policies to their recommendations on digitization and preservation of cultural materials. Therefore in 2008 the Ministry of Culture initiated/conducted a feasibility study to see if Romanian libraries are ready to step in. The coordinator of this study was the National Library which after the results was named national coordinator of digitization initiatives for Romanian Libraries Network. Moreover the NLR was funded to develop a National Digital Library to present its digitized materials.
The objectives of the National Digital Library – as presented on the National Library webpage, concern: Access, preservation, promotion of written cultural heritage Multiple access points for existing and prospective users Expanding the number of born digital documents
This is the interface of the Digital Library.
The users of the National Digital Library are implicit the users of the NLR: researchers, students, editors and the general public with an interest in cultural heritage Internally, the Digital Library is maintained by the “Virtual Library Department” and the staff working there has library and information technology background
The selection criteria for the digitized material concerned the value of the document, the preservation stage, as well as financial, technological and legal issues. The material is being digitized by the Special Collections Department and then taken by the Virtual Library staff where is processed, described and uploaded.
As for November 2011 the digital collection contained almost 3000 objects consisting of Archival documents, Manuscripts, Old Romanian and foreign books, Photographs and maps, Incunabula and so on
Here I picked up some of them to illustrate the richness. At the top of the slide you can see a postcard from Constanta, Ovidiu Square – Ovidiu/Ovid/Ovidius the latin poet that was exlied by the Romans here in 8 A.D. and died here. On the left hand side there is a picture from Ada Kaleh - a small island on Danube river that was mostly inhabited by Turks. During the communism period was submerged and a dam was built instead (Iron Gates, the Serbian borders) and right hand side is a portrait of the Italian painter Correggio
As for metadata, the NDL uses for its collections various formats displayed as Dublin Core. For the digital objects that have a catalog record in UNIMARC, it’s brought to Digitool in MARC21 (testing phase for pointers) Dublin Core for the ones that are not catalogued and XML files for files that were digitized before NDL and were send as contributions to various projects
The user can search the NDL with simple and advanced terms in all items or a particular collection mentioned above. The services provided by NDL regarding the interaction with the user weren't implemented yet and the translations of the page are incomplete
The NDL delivers its content as it was scanned; meaning pages of the same book are linked together in a hierarchical structure. Currently, all the documents in the NDL are out-of-copyright materials and can be used without restriction for personal interest. The resolution of the images is of 100-200 dpi and if required the library can provide a higher resolution for the material. The publication (partly or fully) is subject to permission of the library manager. The National Library started digitizing its special collections before the creation of the digital library (providing contributions to TELplus 2007;Manuscriptorium 2007). Currently, the digital library is used to store and provide access to another international project, REDISCOVER (Reunion of Dispersed Content: Virtual Evaluation and Reconstruction), 2009
Currently, the technical support is provided by the ExLibris Group (maintenance contract) The digital objects are stored locally on an institutional server