Valorificarea patrimoniului imagistic local clujean în Europeana. Biblioteca digitală europeană

Abstract

This study identified and analyzed visual resources, more precisely photographs and postcards, with images from Cluj-Napoca, that were digitized and posted on Europeana. European Digital Library by libraries, museums, archives, a cultural center and a community-based photo archive from Romania, Hungary, Austria, Sweden and Italy. Moreover, it provides a research model on the topic, focusing on the scientific potential of the existing digital resources in Europeana. It highlights the importance of the digitization of the cultural heritage, building a digital repository that offers both a general, European perspective, as well as segmental, national, regional and local approaches. The research on Cluj cultural heritage in Europeana reveals the importance of the collaboration among the memory institutions in preserving and facilitating access to their collections in general, and to their local history documents in particular, reconfirming that digitization is an area where collaboration is feasible and with surprising benefits.