The Sapienza Digital Library (SDL) is a research project undertaken by Sapienza Università di Roma, the largest Europe’s campus, and the Italian supercomputer center Cineca.
The SDL project aims to build an infrastructure supporting preservation, management and dissemination of the past, present and future digital resources, that contain the overall intellectual production of the Sapienza University. The solution adopted tries to find a tradeoff between the standardization of the digital processes and products (that allows a cost-effective centralized and shared management and curation), and the preservation of the peculiarities of scientific materials, belonging to disparate knowledge disciplines (that need to be digitally available for future initiatives, more specifically tailored to the designated communities).
Partner
Università La Sapienza di Roma: Centro DigiLab in collaboration with Sistema Bibliotecario of Sapienza and InfoSapienza.
Both an agreement between Sapienza, MIBAC and Google for the digitalization of the books, and an agreement with SIAE to grant the accessibility of the audio and video materials according to the legal regulations, have been signed.
Financing
500.000 Euro by Cineca and Sapienza University
Head of the project at Cineca
Cineca - director of the project, Salvatore Rago; technical coordinator, Matteo Bertazzo
Sapienza - director of the project, prof. Giovanni Ragone; scientific technical, prof. Marco Schaerf; technical coordinator, Angela Di Iorio; lab, Cecilia Carloni
