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MALVINE - Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated Networks in Europe
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Background
MALVINE commenced in 1998 as an EU-Project co-funded within the 4th Framework Program "Telematics for Libraries". Project funding has now ended and MALVINE is organised and maintained by the MALVINE Maintenance Agency, located at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and an independent consortium of libraries, archives and museums.
MALVINE offers new and enhanced access to holdings of post-medieval manuscripts and letters, kept and catalogued in European libraries, archives, documentation centres and museums. MALVINE's aim is to build a growing network of these institutions in Europe; a network which is independent of the heterogeneous technical solutions employed locally and is accessible from all over the world via Web based technologies. Although MALVINE searches across local institutions, the researcher will have access to a system with the functionality and features of a unified database. MALVINE not only provides improved access to modern manuscripts in Europe, but also enhances the data exchange between heterogeneous systems. It is to be hoped that the technical interoperability will have a harmonising effect on local cataloguing practices.
Additionally MALVINE enables users to provide feedback on catalogue records which can then be enhanced by library professionals at the relevant institution.
