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Rise of Literacy project explored the history of the written text in Europe and aimed to showcase related cultural treasures on the Europeana collections website.
In this dataset you can find Egyptian papyrus fragments currently held at the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. The fragments are part of the Heidelberger Papyrussammlung, one of the largest papyrus collections in Germany. This entire collection has been made available to Europeana with the IIIF resources of the objects.
This dataset contains oriental manuscripts from 14th until the 20th centuries CE held at the The National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library.
Since its conception in 2011, the international community of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) has taken important steps in improving the way cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) present images on their digital collections platforms.
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Created: 30 June 2017
Pierre-Edouard Barrault
Since the foundation of various libraries close to the university in the 14th and 15th centuries, the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg has housed many important collections. The datasets that have been delivered to Europeana hold over 25,000 records including treasures such as manuscripts, manuscript fragments, charters, and early modern and modern printed books and magazines.
Europeana Research continues to expand, providing the best quality datasets from Europeana partners to researchers. These datasets are chosen for their value to researchers in terms of depth, subject matter, and having licenses that make them usable in research. Recently five datasets were added to the Europeana Research collection, four digital collections from European libraries and The European Library Open Dataset.
