Italy’s Minister of Cultural Heritage Gives Go Ahead to Develop Italian Digital Library
From I*Italy:
A new national archive is about to come to Italy. It’s called the Italian Digital Library, and its goal is to preserve, share, and promote the vast history of the boot. According to Dario Franceschini, Minister of Cultural Heritage, Activities, and Tourism, the contents stored in Italy’s 101 archives and 46 libraries will be uploaded to the digital library for viewers across the world to access.
As with any cultural preservation project, there is a cost. In this case, two million Euro [approx. $2.16 million/USD] were allocated to finance the initiative.
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Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.