This document proposes a collection description schema, a structured set of metadata attributes, for describing collections. It is based on the article 'An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues'.
The schema presented here is intended to facilitate the simple description of Collections, Locations and related people or...
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A comprehensive toolkit to help practitioners and middle managers build business cases to fund digital preservation activities: a step-by-step guide to the writing process, including templates, case studies and other resources.
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28-10-2013
On October 25, the Flanders Heritage Library received the Flemish Community Award for Cultural Heritage 2012-2013 from the Flemish Minister for Culture. The presentation took place in Bruges, during the annual consultation and meeting moment of the Flemish cultural heritage sector.
Flemish Minister for Culture, Mrs Joke Schauvliege: 'The Flanders Heritage Library is a network of six prominent heritage libraries that, spurred by a young, dynamic staff, has acquired a spot for itself in the field of the Flemish heritage libraries. With them, our paper cultural heritage is in expert hands.'
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Flanders Heritage Libraries maintains a number of websites and databases, all of which are publicly accessible. Most resources (marked with *) are currently available in Dutch only.
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Guidelines
- Always place the colour logo (gray and red) on a light background, preferably white.
- Use a white version of the logo with a dark background.
- In black and white publications, use the black version of the logo (and not a converted version of the colour logo).
- Apply a proper margin around the logo.
- Use only versions of the logo provides by our organisation. Downloads for the colour and black versions of the logo can be found below.
Colours
The logo colour are:
The CURATE game is designed to be used as an exercise that prompts players to put themselves into digital project scenarios in order to address issues and challenges that arise when institutions engage with digital curation and preservation.
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The Interim Meeting of the Working Group Graphic Documents in Vienna (17 - 19 April 2013) on the theme Paper Conservation: Decision & Compromise, provides a forum for the broad spectrum of activities the professional community is developing. Ever increasing competences are demanded of paper-, library-, archive- and print conservators by, on the...
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23-01-2013
It is well known that great aristocratic houses all over Europe once contained magnificent libraries. What is less well known - at least in Continental Europe - is that many hundreds of these libraries still exist in historic houses all over England, Scotland and Wales. Over 300,000 books survive in more than 150 libraries and are in the care of the National Trust, despite the name not a government body, but a private charity established in the late nineteenth century. Others belong to smaller private foundations, and others still have remained in private ownership.
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Het opstarten van preservatie- en conservatie-projecten in archieven en bewaarbibliotheken kan een zeer dure klus zijn. Extra middelen zijn dan ook meer dan welkom. Maar hoe begin je daaraan? Welke elementen mag je zeker niet over het hoofd zien? En hoe 'verkoop' je je aanvraag? Dit boekje biedt handige tips om extra financieringskansen optimaal...
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