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+ | The Consortium of European Research Libraries is a membership organisation for all libraries, museums of the book, archives and other organisations with an interest in cultural heritage in the form of early printed books and manuscripts. | ||
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+ | **Collaboration** | ||
+ | Together we develop resources that increase the visibility and use of our collections, | ||
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+ | **Cultural heritage** | ||
+ | We bring together under one umbrella descriptions of books, biographical information about printers, information about book production (such as printers’ marks, book bindings, size of print runs and watermarks), | ||
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+ | **Digital humanities** | ||
+ | Many of CERL’s databases linked to digital copies of original materials held in our libraries. Our search interfaces are especially tailored to the specialist data we hold, allowing for detailed searching and granular retrieval results. Our CERL Thesaurus is published as Linked Open Data, and may be reused both to build connections between databases and to facilitate searching in large data sets. | ||
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+ | **A Network for Sharing Expertise** | ||
+ | In our network we discuss and develop standards (e.g. for describing provenance information and bookbinding), | ||
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For a good overview of CERL services and activities see, Ingeborg Versprille, Marian Lefferts and Cristina Dondi, 'The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL): twenty years of promoting Europe' | For a good overview of CERL services and activities see, Ingeborg Versprille, Marian Lefferts and Cristina Dondi, 'The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL): twenty years of promoting Europe' | ||
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