St Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library: An Excursion Along The Border Between Metadata For Resourc
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St Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library: An Excursion Along The Border Between Metadata For Resource Discovery And For Resource Description
Medieval manuscripts are complicated. Each manuscript is a unique individual with its own history. Often, not always, they contain
several pieces of intellectual content, each of which may be well known in the sense that its content appear in many manuscripts from
the same time, and that this content may appear in printed editions today. To catalogue medieval manuscripts requires a complex descriptive
metadata schema, which is capable of capturing both the individual manuscript as work of art and as a unique blend of well known
intellectual content.
That is, you should be able to search for works by (say) Boethius or Virgil. But you should also be able to search manuscripts that have
been owned by (say) the monastic society of the Lund cathedral. Or manuscripts that were illuminated in Italy. The S:t Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library <1> is, among other things, an attempt to combine these two aspects. The collection of medieval manuscripts at Lund university library is being digitized, and cataloged using the Master XML DTD <2> developed by the Master project <3>.
These records may be formatted as electronic texts using XSLT and a text formatting system. In addition, the Master descriptive metadata
is being transformed, again using XSLT, into a format more suitable for loading into a database.
In that database there will is one record for each manuscript. That is one record describing the actual physical object. In addition, each manuscript
contains intellectual content described as manuscript items in the Master description scheme. These items may be nested, such that a manuscript item
can have multiple parts and may be a part of some other item. In the Laurentius database, these items are individual records linked to other
records through isPartOf or hasPart relations.
All records, manuscript level as well as item level, ones are loaded into a single database which is searchable through Z39.50<4> making it
compatible (in principle) with our library OPAC. Laurentius can deliver search results in MARC.
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