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Digital Bodleian

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Digital Bodleian first launched in 2015 with the aim of bringing together digitized content from the Bodleian Libraries’ extraordinary and rich collections into a single portal. The Bodleian Libraries have been digitizing content since the early 1990s and Digital Bodleian was and is designed to enable access to that content for the widest possible audience. Digital Bodleian quickly established itself as a key resource for research and teaching based on Bodleian Libraries’ collections, and usage has steadily increased over the years since launch. The site has relaunched, in late 2020, with a new and improved search and discovery interface, which aims to: facilitate improved searching, filtering and browsing of collection items; improve display of item-level metadata; enable viewing and download of highest-quality resolution images for the purposes of non-commercial research and teaching; and improve curation and delivery of Bodleian Libraries content, as well as the delivery of content on behalf of partners such as Oxford’s colleges and Digital Humanities projects. The relaunched Digital Bodleian benefited from funding from the Oxford University GLAM Digital Strategy Implementation Programme, and the technical redevelopment was completed in partnership with text & bytes LLC. The Bodleian Libraries are committed to digitizing as many of our special collections holdings as possible, but the vastness of these holdings means that only a relatively small amount is available online. If you would like to explore our special collections further, there are a number of additional online resources available. These include the main library catalogue for print collections SOLO, where information about, for example, rare books can be found; Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts, which contains information about our post-1500 archival and manuscript collections; and numerous TEI catalogues, which contain records for our Western medieval and non-Western manuscript collections. Guidance on all of our available finding aids is provided by Weston Library Special Collections. Digital Bodleian also works in partnership with a number of Oxford colleges and Digital Humanities projects to deliver images of their collections.

What is known per question

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What kind of data do you want to archive?

Subjects: Digital Image Processing; Subject Agnostic

Domains: curated information; data storage; digital curation; web service

Does the journal or publisher you publish with require or recommend a repository?

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Which discipline does your data belong to?

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Which publisher?

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Does your funder have requirements for where data is archived?

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Which funder?

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Does your institution offer a data repository?

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Which institution?

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Can your data be shared openly?

Data access: open

Data deposition: not applicable

How large is your dataset?

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Why can the data not be open?

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Under which license do you want to share the data?

Licences: Digital Bodleian Terms of Use; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Do you need a persistent identifier, such as a DOI, for citing the data?

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Must the data be stored in a specific region?

Country: United Kingdom

Must archiving be free of charge?

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Which country?

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Country: United Kingdom