European Networking Resources and Information Concerning Cultural Heritage (ENRICH) Project

IT Services, Sebastian Rahtz, Lou Burnard, James Cummings - EU

Principal Investigator / Director: Sebastian Rahtz, Lou Burnard, James Cummings

Oxford participants: Sebastian Rahtz, Lou Burnard, James Cummings

Other Participants: not specified

Project Webpage: http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/

Start Date: not specified

End Date: not specified

Funder: EU

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): 

National Library of the Czech Republic, AiP Beroun (Czech Republic),

 

 

Project Description:

ENRICH is a targeted project funded under the eContent+ programme. Its objective is to provide seamless access to distributed digital representations of old documentary heritage from various European cultural institutions in order to create a shared virtual research environment especially for study of manuscripts, but also incunabula, rare old printed books, and other historical documents. It builds on the Manuscriptorium Digital Library (http://www.manuscriptorium.eu) that has already managed to aggregate data from 46 collections from the Czech Republic and abroad. The project groups together almost 85% currently digitized manuscripts in the national libraries in Europe. These collections will be enhanced by substantial amount of data from university libraries and other types of institutions. The consortium will make available more than five million digitized pages.