Digital Library of Poland-related Old Ephemeral Prints: Preserving Multilingual Cultural Heritage

Maciej Ogrodniczuk , Włodzimierz Gruszczyński

Abstract

The article presents the results from the project of the thematic Digital Library of Polish and Poland-related Ephemeral Prints from the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries, intending to preserve the unique multilingual material, make it available for education and extend it with the joint efforts of historians, philologists, librarians and computer scientists. The paper also puts forward the idea of a living digital library, created with a closed set of resources which can form the basis for their further extension, thus turning traditional digital archives into collaboration platforms.