About MBC - MBC
About Malopolska Digital Library
The Provincial Public Library in Krakow is implementing the project: "The Małopolska Digital Library on the horizon of the 21st century - creating an innovative platform for sharing regional digital resources in the Provincial Public Library in Krakow."
The subject of the project is:
- building an intuitive and user-friendly platform enabling online sharing of the digital asset of Małopolska Digital Library to broad audiences;
- digitisation of library resources of key importance for the protection of the cultural heritage of Małopolska (digitisation, substantive development of the resource).
Design tasks:
- upgrading the MDL platform (open code, modules, self-publishing, multi-search engine);
- mobile studio (hardware and software sharing, training organisation);
- modernisation of the Małopolska Digital Library’s studio;
- organisation of a multi-format MDL archive;
- development and sharing of the digitised resource.
The new Małopolska Digital Library is a user-friendly platform readable for the contemporary user, as well as:
- a new way of presenting data on the portal using new flexible criteria with functionalities corresponding to the user’s needs;
- personalisation of the site taking into account: the responsive nature of the portal, the ability to log in and create your own collections;
- providing many possibilities of presenting data and many mechanisms for the internet user to choose between.
Proper implementation of the project will ensure:
- use of expert knowledge and cooperation of users, research analyses;
- development of assumptions with evaluation to create a portal according to the needs of users and in accordance with the reference model of the digital library and functionalities typical of text resources;
- development of an optimal portal model that takes into account the best practice of digital libraries;
- preparation of guidelines for presentation formats.
The project received funding from the European Regional Development Fund under the Regional Operational Program of the Małopolska Region for the years 2014-2020 – Sub-measure 2.1.2 Digital Regional Resources.
Total project amount (as at 7.12.2016) 12 149 824.78 PLN
Amount of EU funding (as at 7.12.2016) 9 862 949.56 PLN
Own contribution (as at 7.12.2016) 1 740 520.73 PLN
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