In 2018, as part of the DFG-funded ‘Handschriftenportal’ project, BiblioCopy digitised printed manuscript catalogues for Stabi Berlin and other research libraries. These catalogues provide essential source material for Germany's central digital portal for manuscript holdings.
Project period
2018
Collections
Printed manuscript catalogues
Objective
Central online access
Printed catalogues for the digital portal
Manuscript catalogues contain scholarly descriptions of the content, material form and history of individual codices. Digitisation makes this cataloguing information linkable to the records and digital copies in the portal.
- Careful digitisation of extensive catalogue volumes
- Consistent pagination and quality control
- Files prepared for OCR and further data processing
- Delivery to the participating manuscript centres
Making research information accessible in one place
The Handschriftenportal brings together descriptions and digital copies from numerous collections. According to the portal, a total of 257 printed catalogues were scanned and their full text processed during the first project phase.