Notes

1 On the more than 130 manuscript catalogues financed by the DFG and published by the German Manuscripts Cataloguing Centres by 2009, see B. Wagner, ed. (2009), at pp. 17–28.

2 http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de .

3 http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de .

4 Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16) and Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 17). See https://opacplus.bib-bvb.de/TouchPoint_touchpoint/start.do?SearchProfile=Altbestand&SearchType=2, http://www.vd17.de. On the VD 17 project, see Staecker (2004), on the corresponding masterplan, see Staecker (2010).

5 Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18), see http://vd18.de .

6 Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), see http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/ and Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW), see http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/.

7 See http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Inkunabelkatalog-BSB-Ink.181.0.html and http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/OPACplus.92.0.html.

8 http://www.dfg.de/formulare/12_151/index.jsp .

9 An earlier important guideline is IFLA’s Guidelines for Digitization Projects for collections and holdings in the public domain, particularly those held by libraries and archives ( http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s19/pubs/digit-guide.pdf); aspects of the digitization of medieval manuscripts are discussed in detail in Bacher, Fabian, Ikas & Schreiber (2008).

10 For this DFG viewer, see http://dfg-viewer.de/en/regarding-the-project/.

11 Zentralverzeichnis Deutscher Drucke (ZVDD), see http://www.zvdd.de/startseite/.

12 http://www.europeana.eu, and https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de.

13 http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Codices-Iconographici-CodIcon-online.174.0.html.

14 http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/de/bpd/index.html.

15 Bibliotheca Laureshamensis, see http://www.bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/de/index.html.

16 See the project website at http://www.europeanaregia.eu/de and Denoel, Fabian & Tesnière (2013).

17 On these Manuscripts Cataloguing Centres, see http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/info/partner.html and Wagner, ed. (2009), pp. 8–16.

18 On catalogues published by these centres, see above, footnote 1.

19 There is a substantial number of recommendations and current practices in the context of digitization activities, but most of these are related to text/printed documents. A convenient summary is found in Parkoła (2014), a paper published in the Eu‘s Succeed project on digitisation standards, see http://www.succeed-project.eu/. On metadata standards for manuscripts and their interoperability in the semantic web, see the Eu-funded DM2E-Project (http://dm2e.eu).

20 For the DFG Guidelines for short descriptions of manuscripts, see Mackert (2011); on the short entries for manuscripts in the BSB’s online catalogue, see Fabian (2008), especially at pp. 183–190.

21 A survey of German manuscript collections and the catalogues available for them can be found at http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/area/2/Handschriftensammlungen.html.

22 An example is the Parker Library on the Web project, which is available only for subscribed users (http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/parker/actions/page.do?forward=home).

23 The German competence network for digital preservation is called NESTOR; for its activities see http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Subsites/nestor/EN/Home/home and Schrimpf & Keitel (2014). For a national strategy for the longterm archiving of library materials, a call for proposals has been issued by the DFG in July 2013: http://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/programme/lis/ausschreibung_ueberregionale_informationsservices_131115.pdf.

24 Technical standards are discussed in Bacher, Fabian, Ikas, & Schreiber (2008) and Bacher, Fabian, Ikas, & Schreiber (2011).

25 http://dfg-viewer.de/en/regarding-the-project.

26 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, unterausschuß für Handschriftenkatalogisierung (1992), Richtlinien Handschriftenkatalogisierung, 5. Aufl. Available at http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/kataloge/HSKRICH.htm.

27 http://www.europeana.eu.

28 http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4.

29 https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de.

30 On Manuscripta Mediaevalia, see Fabian (2008), esp. pp. 176–181.

31 On the German authorities file GND, see http://www.dnb.de/DE/Standardisierung/GND/gnd_node.html; its international counterpart, VIAF, is available at http://www.dnb.de/DE/Standardisierung/GND/gnd_node.html .

32 See above, note 31.

33 The German projects Wasserzeichen-Informationssystem (WZIS, see http://www.wasserzeichen-online.de/wzis/index.php ) and Einbanddatenbank ( http://www.hist-einband.de/ ).

34 Three-dimensional presentations are included, for example, in Bavarikon ( http://www.bavarikon.de/de/find/result/1 ), virtual exhibitions are offered, for example, by the British Library ( http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/tours.asp ), The European Libary and Europeana Regia ( http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/virtual/regia).

35 For the image-based search mode in Bavarikon, see http://bildsuche.bavarikon.de/.

36 http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr.