Activity Area for the bibliography, the cataloguing and the census of manuscripts

The Activity Area for the bibliography, cataloguing and census of manuscripts:

• promotes and coordinates initiatives relating to the census, inventorying and scientific cataloguing of manuscripts held in Italian libaries, in cooperation with public and ecclesiastical libraries
• promotes summary and scientific cataloguing activities, and coordinates catalographic activities, in accordance with the ICCU standards and related  variants
• keeps and develops the XML syntax concerning manuscripts
• manages and edits the Manus and Bibman databases
• studies and develops standards relating to the various manuscript typologies
• studies and identifies bibliographic sources for the study of manuscript collections in Italy, in order to provide useful tools for manuscript scientific cataloguing
• carries out training activities related to the fields of its own competence.

Area coordinator: Lucia Negrini

tel. +39 06 49210441