The Manuscript and the Internet: digital repatriation of cultural heritage

Abstract

Three recent cross-national projects of digitizing displaced cultural heritage material are presented. It is argued that libraries and archives that have among their holdings unique cultural heritage material from other cultures should dedicate appropriate resources to the presentation of these materials on the Internet, not only involving local librarians and archivists but also the most pertinent international university scholars, who are invited to contribute with their expertise, so that such websites serve the most relevant scholarly and educative purposes.