Digitization

Background information

About policy and research and development for large scale digitization projects.

• Policy digitization
• Documentation
• IMPACT, international project to improve access to historical text.
  Introduction |Website

Technical information

About digitizing collections:

• The creation of content
• Handling content
• Standards
• Providing access for presentation
• Storage of the files
• Presentation, web application

Current projects

Databank of Digital  Daily newspapers

Large scale digitization and making available of key national, regional and colonial newspapers. The database will eventually contain eight million pages of newspapers dating from the seventeenth century to the present.
Project website

Dutch parliamentary papers

A project of the KB and the library of the House of Representatives to film and digitize the Dutch parliamentary papers from the period 1814-1995.
Introduction | Website

Dutch Print Online

Digitization and providing access to books from the Special Collections of the university libraries of Amsterdam (UVA), Leiden and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek.
Project website

Programmes

The Memory of the Netherlands

The Memory of the Netherlands is an extensive digital collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making.
Website

Metamorfoze

National programme for the preservation of library materials.
Website

  

Finished projects

Survey of national and international digitization projects since 1995.
Introduction