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Serving Both God and Mammon: Cultural Curation and National Access in a Commercial Partnership Matt Kibble, Senior Product Manager, Arts Humanities, ProQuest Matthew 6:24 Biblia Latina, Johann Froben, Basel, 1491 ‘La Bibbia del Savonarola’ Annotations by Fra Domenico Buonvicini (c.1450-1498) Early European Books: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze ProQuest funds the digitisation • ProQuest returns master copies to the BNCF • BNCF owns master copies and can use them for facsimiles, digitisation on demand, online ‘treasures’ exhibitions • Scan entire holdings pre-1700 Free access in Italy • ProQuest provides access via via geo-IP recognition • Access to Italian universities via standard IP-authentication • ProQuest has commercial rights to the collection elsewhere • Royalty paid to Library • Commitment to open access at a future date Scanning partner company: CCS • Content Conversion Specialists GmbH, Hamburg • Scanning on site • Working closely with conservation team and bookstack staff Early European Books: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze May 2010: kick-off meeting (BNCF, ProQuest, CCS) • BNCF staff (librarians, rare books conservation, IT, facilities, bookstacks) • Decide on physical location, logistics of book supply • Decide on method of matching correct book to metadata (shelfmark, ProQuest ID number, bibliographic info) July 2010: set-up of scanning studio • Test scans begin in July, using the most ‘difficult’ examples of books Nov 2010: first batch of 1,000 books online As of May 2012: 4,600 books online Continuous production, c.5,000 books per year Early European Books: Project aims • Minimize impact on lib