Links to collections

John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera: http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk Many of the items have only a description and title, but many of them have images and that’s very intersting.

The Centre for the Study of the Book http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/index.html has some special collections. This link will allow you to browse some images of the manuscripts: http://is.gd/nZYB

I quite like the oriental collection (http://is.gd/nZZL). One of the many beautiful paintings in this collection: http://is.gd/o05o

The Oxford Digital library has some other manuscripts. You can select which collection from the home page http://is.gd/nZVb then on the left menu you can choose “title” to open the series available. Once you see the page you can also zoom it to the tiny details.

More manuscripts and digitised images (Blockbooks): http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/blockbooks_background.html

Something quite interesting… the internet biblia pauperum: http://www.amasis.com/biblia/index.html

And this is just another new feature in Google maps, Oxford is finally on the way to be virtually navigated: http://is.gd/o0b8

Electronic Ephemera

Case: big collection of items of an individual that became available for digitisation according with some funds.

About the John Johnson – Electronic Ephemera.

Important issue: ability of tracking the items as they were in transit for the digitisation and back. Concerns with tracking, scanning and conservation (creation of new shelf marks as necessary).

Project uses PHP + postgre SQL

Search shows different views / roles