Summary: From Parchment to the Network: Manuscripts
Management and Cataloguing
Maria A. Alberti (*)
, Giliola Barbero and Cesare Pasini (#)
(*)
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano
E-mail: alberti@dsi.unimi.it
(#)
Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano
E-mail: cpasini@ambrosiana.it, gbarbero@hotmail.it
ABSTRACT
Conservation libraries, which hold manuscripts and are
willing to provide catalogues, face the problem of their
diversity: each manuscript, document or archive has its
own features, due to its history. Information technology
helps librarians both to record ancient documents
descriptions, dealing with highly non-standard data, and
to allow their dissemination. Biblioteca Ambrosiana
collaborates with DSI of the Università degli Studi di
Milano to find solutions to a variety of problems related

Source: Alberti, Maria Alberta - Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli studi di Milano

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences