The Sardegna Digital Library (SDL) is an online
digital library
A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital me ...
created and managed by the Council of the Sardinia Region. The site was designed and created during the period when it was governor of the Sardinia region
Renato Soru
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, and was put online in April 2008.
Sardegna Digital Library Presentation
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The library is made up of multimedia materials designed to represent Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...
in its many aspects: cultural, historical, artistic, landscape and environmental.
The Digital Library is a portal containing a constantly updated archive of digital contents of the Sardinia Region. For the first time, an institution makes available online a consistent variety of cataloged multimedia documents.
The contents come from the regional thematic sites and from Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
national archives: among these ISRE, Istituto Luce
The Istituto Luce (translation: "Light Institute", with Luce being the acronym for "L’Unione Cinematografica Educativa", i.e. "The Educational Film Union") was an Italian film corporation, created in 1924 during the Fascist era. The Institute ...
, Rai
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and from individual contributions by Sardinian authors.
At present, more than 33,000 images, 5,600 audio tracks, 2,000 videos and 2,600 publications are available for consultation. The contents, classified according to national and international archival and cataloging standards, are made available to users, in order to allow free and open consultation.
Contents
The site collects and makes available to all the most significant contents of the Region's heritage; the thematic sites become a source and a partial exhibitors of the same contents of the Digital Library.
Il portale contiene materiale e documentazione sulla Sardegna di vario genere: video, file audio, testi e immagini. L'archivio viene continuamente aggiornato con nuovi materiali provenienti dai siti tematici della Regione e con contributi di vari autori.
The archive is divided into five sections: Videos, Images, Audio, Texts, Arguments. The site is also equipped with a web search engine
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capable of interrogating sections individually.
All materials, audio, video, photographic have been digitized and can be used directly on the site in FLV
Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc.) over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are ...
and MP3
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mode; they are also downloadable in podcast mode in WMV
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, iPod- MP4, MP3 formats.
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Sardinian culture
Italian digital libraries