Max Planck Digital Library and SUB Goettingen sign a Cooperation Agreement - building a digital infrastructure for the arts and humanities

 

The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) and Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) have agreed to strengthen their existing collaboration and, specifically, to further the development of a digital infrastructure for the arts and humanities (eHumanities). The agreement was signed today (Mai 3, 2007) at the German E-Science Conference 2007 in Baden-Baden by the vice president of the Max Planck Society, Prof. Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn; the vice president of Goettingen University, Prof. Dr. Doris Lemmermöhle; the director of the MPDL, Dr.
Laurent Romary; and the director of the SUB, Dr. Norbert Lossau.

Dr. Romary explicates, "Philology, philosophy, history, archaeology and a myriad of other fields in the humanities require both a common infrastructure and domain-specific tools, to conduct their scientific activities". The cooperation between these two organisations fundamentally supports the construction of such a novel infrastructure. Common activities include open access to primary digital resources, publications and supplementary material; the location-independent creation and edition of textual data; and long term preservation of digital information. "The key is ", Dr. Lossau underlines, "the close collaboration with scholars to ensure services, which really meet their demands".

Contact details:

Dr. Laurent Romary
  Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
  e-mail: rom...@mpdl.mpg.de
  Internet: www.mpdl.mpg.de

Dr. Norbert Lossau
  Goettingen State and University Library (SUB)
  e-mail: los...@sub.uni-goettingen.de
  Internet: www.sub.uni-goettingen.de

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