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CERL Portal organisation
The CERL Portal is being developed under the responsibility of an Advisory Board which was instated in the summer of 2006. The Advisory Board consists of manuscripts curators and database experts. The members will monitor the further development of the Portal.
Members of the CERL Portal Advisory Board are:
- Ivan Boserup (Chair), Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
- Robert Giel, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
- Lotte Hellinga, former Secretary of CERL
- Fabienne Queyroux, Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris
- Ed van der Vlist, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
The Portal is technically developed by the Electronic Publishing Centre, hosted by the University Library of Uppsala (Sweden). Day-to-day management is the responsibility of the CERL Secretariat.
Adding more content
CERL aims to add approximately five new databases to the CERL Portal every year. Databases that are of interest
- contain records of (Western) manuscripts of all times, possibly in conjunction with early prints;
- are harvestable by OAI protocol, or accessible through the Z39.50 protocol.
File owners are asked to invest some staff time when the database is first added to the Portal. Subsequently, the automated process of harvesting, or access by Z39.50 protocol, needs to remain supported.
Memorandum of Agreement
The Memorandum of Agreement defines all rights of both CERL and the data providers, including the provider's inalienable rights to the data. The agreement must be signed by both parties before access to the data is provided.
Memorandum of Agreement for OAI databases
Memorandum of Agreement for Z39.50 databases
Contact
If you have any suggestions on improving this search facility, or if you are responsible for a database containing relevant data and are interested in participating, please contact the Project Co-ordinator, Ivan Boserup or the CERL office secretariat@cerl.org.
