Digitization of Historical Documents and Contextualization of Cultural Heritage
| Session: Digital Libraries:
Gateways to Our Past |
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| Author: |
Zdeněk Uhlíř, National Library of the Czech Republic; Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: |
Digitization of historical document (originally meant as mere preservation)
became during approximately ten years an important means of access. So arose questions about presentation of history in
the digital environment. It comes out that it will be impossible without considerable changes in the sphere of
methodology. Presentation of historical documents in the digital environment must be understood as contextualization of
the cultural heritage. Thus, the synchronic history comes to the fore instead of the present diachronic one.
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| About the author: |
Zdeněk Uhlíř has been working as a staff member of the department of
manuscripts and early printed books, National Library of the Czech Republic since 1990 and deputy head of the department
since 1992.
He work on the global programmes Memory of the World and Bibliotheca universalis, on the European projects MASTER and
VICODI, on the national programme Memoriae mundi series Bohemica. He is involved in the conception work and coordination
of the treatment of historical holdings.
He has written approx. 170 scientific and professional studies, articles, papers, deliverables and reviews
Books:
Literary sources of St. Wenceslas´ Cult and Veneration in the High and Late Middle Ages (Prague, 1996)
Charles University, Its Scholars and Students in the Middle Ages and Their Work in the Context of Their Age (Prague,
1998)
Theory and Methodology of the Electronic-Digital Treatment of Manuscripts and the Hybrid Library (Prague,
2002)
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