OrienTales is the new digital library managed by the University Library System of the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. The project aims at the creation, enhancement, promotion, dissemination, and long-term archiving of digital objects and collections, making them available to the public on the platform. The digitized cultural heritage comes from the collections of the University and other institutions that will join the project.
OrienTales has decided to join the DSpace-GLAM community.
The heritage mainly consists of digitized volumes that comply with national digitization standards. The future goal will be full compliance of OrienTales with the standards of the National Digitization Plan, on which 4Science has long been in dialogue with the Central Institute for the Digitization of Cultural Heritage. We are in a phase of continuous evolution regarding Digital Cultural Heritage. The DSpace-GLAM ecosystem meets the challenges and needs of dynamic, evolving institutions, archives, and libraries that are always up-to-date with new standards for cataloging, metadata, and representation of digital objects.
The collaboration between 4Science and the University Library System of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” aims to expand accessibility and anticipate potential needs of OrienTales users. This process requires adopting skills, solutions, and technological infrastructures capable of charting new possibilities for the digital dimension of Culture. Interpreting, describing, designing, communicating individual digital objects and their relationships within the Digital Library. DSpace-GLAM provides OrienTales with the opportunity to open “many conversations held together by a common language, by a communicative structure based on commitments among different communities for different audiences.”
May OrienTales online be just the beginning!
What is DSpace-GLAM?
DSpace-GLAM is the Digital Library Management System developed by 4Science based on the open-source Digital Asset Management System DSpace dedicated to creating and managing digital cultural collections. The acronym GLAM highlights its ability to accommodate and manage multi-domain cultural content together: ancient and modern books, photographs, archival collections, periodicals, museum objects, documents, videos, audio, maps… Collections are accessible together in an extraordinary journey through new digital cultural scenarios and landscapes.