Documentation, exploitation and promotion of the Hellenic Parliament’ s Library Collections
Budget: 2,160,903 €
Funding Program: 3rd Community Support Framework (80%) - National Resources (20%)
Sub-project titles: Sub-project 1: COLLECTION, SCIENTIFIC RECORDING, CODING AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE HELLENIC PARLIAMENT’S LIBRARY COLLECTIONS (SAME MEANS)
Sub-project2.1: SUPPLY OF EQUIPMENT / SOFTWARE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DOCUMENTATION UNIT / DIGITALIZATION
Sub-project2.2: DIGITIZATION OF NEWSPAPERS - RARE COLLECTIONS - ART WORKS - MUSEUM OBJECTS - BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Sub-project2.3: PUBLICITY ACTIONS
Duration: 10 months
Summary
The project was assosiated to the documentation, exploitation and promotion of the Collections held and managed by the Hellenic Parliament and which form a valuable and unique component of the Greek culture.
Objectives
The collection, recording, coding, digitization and documentation of the HeP’s Library Cultural Collections (Newspapers, Rare Collections, Artworks, Museum Objects, Bibliographies) held and managed by the Hellenic Parliament.
Results
- The systematic and structured introduction of the new information technologies in the process of recording and documenting the Hellenic Parliament’s Collections with the creation of an integrated digital library that works in parallel with and complementary to the actual library.
- The procurement of a system for the management of the Library’s electronic and digital databases and the electronic processing and documentation of the material in the Library Collections.
- The digitization and documentation of the valuable issues collections.
- The development of a digital library of newspapers and magazines with the digital conversion of microfilms that have already been produced and the completion of the project with the direct digitization of newspapers and magazines in order to make them available through state-of-the-art information and communications technologies (ICT).
- The digitization of bibliographies of national importance.
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