The ICCU istitutional repository which collects resources from geographically dispersed italian cultural heritage istitutions. The repository named MAGTECA, is the grounding archive of the italian national Digital Library Portal and Cultural-Tourist Network. The portal proposes an integrated access system to the digital and traditional resources of libraries, archives, and other Italian cultural institutions, in order to promote and enhance the knowledge and availability of the cultural heritage to a national and international level. The grounding digital repository, contains more than 2.000.000 of digitalized images with the corresponding metadata consolidated in more than 29.000 documents. The metadata framework is encoded in MAG.
Magazzini Digitali (Digital Stacks) is a project undertaken by Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and National Library of Florence. The selected objects from the repository are Doctoral Thesis that are harvested by the repository from the italian universities institutional repositories. The metadata framework is encoded in MPEG21-DIDL.
The digital repository of the Library & Archive of the British School at Rome “a residential centre for post-graduate research in the archaeology, history, art history and culture of Italy, supporting a specialist reference Library and Photographic Archive which have produced and catalogued digital images of items from the collections of historic photographs, prints and maps. The experiment will involve all digitalized collections, that comprehend around 40.000 images with more then 13.900 metadata documents. The metadata framework is encoded in METS.
