Plan to enrich the catalogue of the Bibliothèque de France

The catalogue of the BDF was conceived as an exhaustive, innovative, enriched one. Gigantic database, unic, encyclopaedic, multimedia, it intends to enrich the entries with extracts from primary documents. Some significant extracts have been tested from a sample of about 1 000 documents. At the end of 1994, the processing line will be organized and a first economic and technical appraisal realised. But the real evaluation will take place after the openning.
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