Creation of an International Digital Library of Manuscripts: seamless access to data from heterogeneous resources (ENRICH Project)

The Czech Manuscriptorium Digital Library has been in operation since the year 2002. It aggregates data from various cultural institutions in the Czech Republic and also from abroad. The EU eContenPlus ENRICH project (Dec. 2007 - Nov. 2009) provides the opportunity to enhance the integration of data from a number of European institutions. Manuscriptorium offers seamless access to them indifferently of the geographical location of their physical storage under its uniform interface (http://www.manuscriptorium.eu). It supports both harvesting via OAI as well as production of Manuscriptorium compliant data from the beginning for those who wish to create their digital library as a Manuscriptorium component part without building it completely on their site. The Manuscriptorium team has accumulated a lot of experience in work with partners and users; therefore, its current and future development is trying to respond to their requirements through actions defined as personalization both for users/researchers and contributors