EFFORTS FOR THE DIGITISATION OF THE BOOKS IN ROMANIA (2008-2018). CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Abstract

The books modelled in time consciousness and mentalities, presenting a continuously increasing cultural, social and national function. In the same time, the books have economical function, due to the fact that the editing formulas, the costs, the destinations and the priority of the contents are aspects with a rapid dynamics. The 21st century is the time when the effort of the Romanian historical research makes visible efforts to synchronise with the tendencies of the EU research, through researches concretised in working instruments, destined to support the resize and the fluidisation of the knowledge, integrating it into a dynamic scientific circuit. These efforts, either belonging to a singular researcher or to a collective of researchers, target at the present time ambitious aims related not only to the scientific investigation of the books, but also to the development of strategies meant to ensure the rapid access to information. Thus, the digitisation of the cultural and scientific values as preservation of the identity and support for future researches represents only one cultural strategy, in full progress in Romania.Important roles in this matter have the Directives and the Recommendations of the European Union, who initiated and supported a common policy for the entire European space, including projects financed directly by the European Commission, e.g. Europeana Digital Library in 2008. The Romanian specialised institutions answered to these directives and recommendations, thus, starting with 2008, there is in Romania an institutionalised effort for the preservation and recovery of the Romanian patrimony through digitisation.  The present study aims, at a decade distance from the beginning of the institutionalised efforts for the digitalization of the patrimony, to analyse the concrete achievements and the Romanian level in the digitisation of the cultural patrimony, especially the digitisation of the books.