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Sharing the Digital Resources.

Authors :
COVACI, Marinela
Source :
eLearning & Software for Education; 2019, Vol. 4, p389-396, 8p
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

The National Library of Romania shares digital resources, providing access to knowledge and cultural heritage, through three online platforms. These are: a) The Traditional Virtual Catalog for the books published before 1993. It is the virtual image of the traditional catalog which is organized alphabetically by author name in the appropriate folders physical drawers. 1,600,000 sheets are structured in 1600 folders, and a folder contains on average 1,000 sheets scanned catalog. Book-to-Book Platform, a crowd-cataloguing tool, provides both search and retrieval of bibliographic information in virtual catalog of books traditionally published before 1993 and the possibility to learn and contribute voluntarily in the development of the catalog by creating associated metadata catalog sheets scanned. Book-to-Book is a collaborative project. Through specialized internships and specialized seminars in National Library of Romania, students from Faculty of Letters are better prepared for integration in labor market, achieving skills and abilities, a good level of professional preparation The platform and database was designed by the students from the Techical University Bucuresti. Accessible at http://bookathon.bibnat.ro/ b) The Online Catalog. The online catalog web component is offered determined by the integrated library system, Aleph and contains bibliographic informations about documents in the library collections since 1993: books, periodicals, multimedia documents, periodical articles culture. In the online catalog, defined by logical databases, The doctoral theses Referential, which provides access to online content thereof (by digitizing paper or archiving electronic content of CD attached by author) and digital library for blind (project Sound of pages) that disabled users have access to requested digitized works. Accessible http://alephnew.bibnat.ro:8991/F . c) The National Digital Library Started in 2009, it was conducted on dedicated library software, Digitool. It is comprised of digital collections created by digitizing special collections of documents in the National Library of Romania, organized by themes or after events. Currently includes the following collections: Historical Archive, Incunabula, Old Romanian books and bibliophile, Potographs of personalities, romanian illustrated postcards, picture postcards, manuscripts, old maps, musical scores, albums with engravings, exlibris, japanese prints, drawings Romanian etc. These collections are the result of research on copyright of items. The metadata and the thumbnails of the digital collections was harvested via OAI-PMH protocol and published in Europeana, keeping the source of the original URL and a digital objects, after a careful analysis of the metadata and a data migration process. Accessible at http://digitool.bibnat.ro/R . Databases have grown steadily and have become e-learning tools for some categories of users. The systems provide open resources, learning and navigating tutorials and contribute to the knowledgeable and creative society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2066026X
Volume :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
eLearning & Software for Education
Publication Type :
Conference
Accession number :
141074913
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.12753/2066-026X-18-269