Eredità culturale e biblioteche digitali
19/1/2005Sito dell’iniziativa per l’eredità culturale in rete (NINCH). Segnalo anche un interessante testo di Andrew Prescott sulle biblioteche digitali:
The Digital Library in Theory and Practice: a historian’s view
Andrew Prescott
One of the recurrent images in Peter Ackroyd’s recent novel, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, is of the British Museum Reading Room as “the true spiritual centre of London, where many secrets might finally be revealed.” Much of the novel is set in the Reading Room in the early 1880s. Karl Marx, George Gissing and the comedian Dan Leno work side by side “unaware of each other as if they were sealed in separate chambers.” Unknown to them, their different preoccupations intersect and spill out onto the streets of London to involve them in a series of horrific murders, which are described in a diary which itself ends up as an Additional Manuscript in the British Museum.
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