L'esperienza di digitalizzazione delle collezioni librarie del Sistema Bibliotecario dell’Università di Firenze: Impronte digitali

The article presents the digitisation activity of the Library System of University of Florence by describing the project, the organization, the experience gained over the years and the digital collections without, however, forgetting still critical points of the process, not least the long-term preservation. Using a digital repository for resource management, adopting descriptive and technical standards that guarantee interoperability with different systems, specifying shared methodologies of the entire digitisation process (scanning, metadata, display and use modes, preservation), is the framework in which the digitisation projects of the libraries of University of Florence are born and developed since 2010. The digital collection, called Impronte digitali (Digital Footprints), currently has 12,900 resources. In recent years, the digital collection has been increased and the digital objects have been rearranged by integrating into the Library system’s discovery tool, making them searchable with the rest of the local holdings and accessible on Internet Culturale, the national digital content portal.