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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2008
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ795402 |
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| author | Nikolova-Houston, Tatiana Houston, Ron |
| author_facet | Nikolova-Houston, Tatiana Houston, Ron Nikolova-Houston, Tatiana Houston, Ron |
| collection | Education Resources Information Center |
| contents | Building the Virtual Scriptorium Nikolova-Houston, Tatiana Houston, Ron Electronic Libraries Archives Books Publications Access to Information Media Adaptation Preservation Costs Standards Obsolescence Web Sites Financial Support Manuscripts, archives, and early printed books contain a documentary record of the foundations of human knowledge. Many elements restrict access to this corpus, from preservation concerns to censorship. On the assumption that the widespread availability of knowledge benefits the human condition more than the restriction of knowledge, elements restrictive to the dissemination of manuscripts, archives, and early printed books should be overcome, and the intellectual content of such items should be available to as wide an audience as possible through the digital library equivalent of the medieval scriptorium, termed here the "virtual scriptorium". (Contains 8 figures.) |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| id | eric_EJ795402 |
| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2008 |
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| spellingShingle | Building the Virtual Scriptorium Nikolova-Houston, Tatiana Houston, Ron Electronic Libraries Archives Books Publications Access to Information Media Adaptation Preservation Costs Standards Obsolescence Web Sites Financial Support Building the Virtual Scriptorium Nikolova-Houston, Tatiana Houston, Ron Electronic Libraries Archives Books Publications Access to Information Media Adaptation Preservation Costs Standards Obsolescence Web Sites Financial Support Manuscripts, archives, and early printed books contain a documentary record of the foundations of human knowledge. Many elements restrict access to this corpus, from preservation concerns to censorship. On the assumption that the widespread availability of knowledge benefits the human condition more than the restriction of knowledge, elements restrictive to the dissemination of manuscripts, archives, and early printed books should be overcome, and the intellectual content of such items should be available to as wide an audience as possible through the digital library equivalent of the medieval scriptorium, termed here the "virtual scriptorium". (Contains 8 figures.) |
| title | Building the Virtual Scriptorium |
| topic | Electronic Libraries Archives Books Publications Access to Information Media Adaptation Preservation Costs Standards Obsolescence Web Sites Financial Support |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ795402 |