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Comparing “British Printed Images to 1700” Digital Library with Prints Digital Libraries in Croatia

British printed images, collections of prints, Croatia „Croatian cultural heritage“(http://www.kultura.hr) is a web site that contains catalogue and descriptions of digital collections made by materials digitized from physical collections held in libraries, museums and archives. These digital collections could be searched by different categories. One of these is „Graphics and drawings“. There are 25 collections in this category and I will discuss two digital collections of printed images from this category: collection made by Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka and collection made by National and university library of Croatia. I have chosen these collections because of the importance of the institutions in which they have been made, because of possibilities of further development of these digital collections and because prints in these collections are presented, in opposite to many other collections in category “Prints and drawings”, separated from other types of digitized content. Digital prints collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka (MMSU) contains only 6 prints. Digital prints collection of the National and university library (NSK) has few hundred prints. Both institutions have in their physical collections much more prints then they have digitized up to now. But if they continue with their digitization efforts and enlarge their digital collections new ways of searching digitized prints and informing about them would be beneficial to their users. On this poster I would also discuss digital prints collection “British printed images to 1700” (BPI) which holds few thousands prints originating from 16th to 18th century and also draw attention to some ways in which BPI enabled searching of prints and informing about them (http://www.bpi1700.org.uk). Goal of this poster would be to identify some beneficial methods of searching and informing about prints in BPI collection because these methods, if implemented in NSK and MMSU digital collections, could also advance their usefulness.

British printed images; collections of prints; Croatia

Zbornik nije tiskan već je objavljen kao digitalni dokument. Web adresa do zbornika je: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/2010/proceedings/