Biblissima's Prototype on Medieval Manuscript Illuminations and their Context
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Biblissima is an online digital library, which provides easy and coordinated access to a huge and complex mass of documentation on manuscripts and early printed books, the texts contained therein, their circulation and their readers, from the 8th to 18th centuries. This workshop presentation will give an overview of the steps followed and decisions made along the way to releasing a first prototype of the Biblissima portal: from mapping data to a common ontology, via the establishment of a thesaurus, to the technical development of a single interface and a common triple store for data deriving from different iconographic databases on medieval manuscripts.
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