A Study Prior to an Exercise in Digitization: The Process Carried out at Cujas Inter-University Library

Any exercise in digitization constitues an extremely effective means of exploiting a collection. However, particularly when such an exercise is concerned with ancient, and therefore fragile documents, it is advisable to carry out exhaustive, prior reflection on the technical and intellectual issues raised. Here we present, by way of an example, the methodology which was applied at Cujas in 1998 with a view to preparing a draft document for undertaking the digitization of works in its collection.
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