postal and telecommunications digital library
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FPC – Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações
The founders
FPC – Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações
CDI – Centro de Documentação e Informação
Rua do Instituto Industrial, Nº 161200 – 225 LisboaTel.: 351 213935156
The Web Site:www.fpc.pt/FPCWeb/homepage.do2
Our project
POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DIGITAL LIBRARY
Digital Library project
We are building a digital library with archive, library and iconographic resources.
The Archive resources
The Library resources
The Iconographic resources
Our Information System
stores the data from different nature: Archive Library Iconography
Our Information System
Our end-users will have a federated search interface: the search engine looks for the data in the different databases and displays the results
Users may navigate through networked resources in the local databases The starting point may be a Library
resource Acess to the original document (PDF) A link to the manuscript (archive
document) A link to a collection of iconographic
resources on Flickr
Start a seach in the catalogue
Select a document
Navigate to a related document in the archive
Link to a collection of photographs in the Web
Our goal is a thematic network to build a Postal and
Telecommunications network with other European partners
A thematic network…
to bring together relevant content providers from libraries, archives and museums all over Europe and integrate resources, based on a common agreed set of standards and guidelines to create harmonised access to their content.
We want to integrate resources and link locally Giving access to our related
documents
Historical archive Iconographic library …
We can integrate resources and link globally Discover Open Library Library of Congress Other Archives and Libraries Flickr photograph database And other information sources
Where can we find resources related to ours… Let’s start by googling a name
“Godofredo Ferreira” (a Portuguese relevant author in the history of the Portuguese Mail)
We find resources in various sources and the Open Library:
http://openlibrary.org/a/OL1170081A
work as a discovery search tool, enhancing the networking of resources.
Our resources connected with the resources of other cultural institutions become more relevant for the end-user.
This search interface may…
Our most relevant collections:
Manuscripts Old and rare books Photographs Stamps Maps
"Mapa das Comunicações Postais de Portugal" , 1818
