Digital resources for cultural heritage collections

Platform for digital collections and digitized cultural heritage.

An online handbook of dates for English history & literature.

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies has created a tool that will be useful to all those interested in the categories and formats of fifteenth century paper, and the impact they had on the sizes of books and works of art as we see them today. The tool is called the Needham Calculator because it is dependent upon Paul Needham’s classification of categories of fifteenth-century paper.

The Norse perception of the world: A mapping and analysis of foreign place names in medieval Swedish and Danish texts.

Digitized version of: Grässe, Johann Georg Theodor, Orbis Latinus, Berlin: Richard Carl Schmidt & Co., 1909.

Digitized version of: Winiarczyk, Marek, Sigla Latina in Libris Impressis Occurrentia, Ed. 2, Wrocław : Wydawn. Uniw. Wrocławskiego, 1995.

The VIAF® (Virtual International Authority File) combines multiple name authority files into a single OCLC-hosted name authority service. The goal of the service is to lower the cost and increase the utility of library authority files by matching and linking widely-used authority files and making that information available on the Web.

An online handbook of dates for German history (in German).