Digitization at the Heidelberg University Library: The Digital Bibliotheca Palatina Project
Veit Probst
The world-famous Bibliotheca Palatina holds more than 3,000 medieval manuscripts, which are today divided between the Vatican Library in Rome and Heidelberg University Library. This article discusses academic, technical, organizational challenges solutions for a digitization project that is now drawing to its close. Its goal has been digitally reconstruct make it available, as one single online edition, scholars all over world, with new opportunities access research.
Digital philology