Usually been a book describing one or more ancient manuscripts or books (hosted or not in the same library but having some common feature). The Internet, and especially the Web, have changed the way of cataloguing manuscripts and new ways of making available their information are today possible. The Open Catalogue of manuscripts is the solution adopted from the Malatestiana Library in Cesena and from the Lancisiana Library in Rome.
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The Open Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Malatestiana Library
A. Cartelli (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy), A. Daltri (Biblioteca Malatestiana, Italy), P. Errani (Biblioteca Malatestiana, Italy), M. Palma (University of Cassino, Italy), and P. Zanfini (Biblioteca Malatestiana, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch086
Abstract
Many experiences laying on the Internet use have been carried out in Paleography during last years and radical changes in the methods usually adopted in that discipline have been introduced. Furthermore specially planned information systems for bibliographical data management are more and more used and are influencing everyday work and study processes. In the authors’ opinion the proposal for the introduction of special information systems and especially of the Open Catalogue of manuscripts have their roots in the revision of Paleography research and study methods, in the connections the discipline will settle with other sciences (i.e., IS, IT and ICT disciplines) and in the creation of new roles for the users of the information the discipline will produce.