Digital Bodleian

Digital Bodleian first launched in 2015 with the aim of bringing together digitized content from the Bodleian Libraries’ extraordinary and rich collections into a single portal. The Bodleian Libraries have been digitizing content since the early 1990s and Digital Bodleian was and is designed to enable access to that content for the widest possible audience. Digital Bodleian quickly established itself as a key resource for research and teaching based on Bodleian Libraries’ collections, and usage has steadily increased over the years since launch. The site has relaunched, in late 2020, with a new and improved search and discovery interface, which aims to: facilitate improved searching, filtering and browsing of collection items; improve display of item-level metadata; enable viewing and download of highest-quality resolution images for the purposes of non-commercial research and teaching; and improve curation and delivery of Bodleian Libraries content, as well as the delivery of content on behalf of partners such as Oxford’s colleges and Digital Humanities projects. The relaunched Digital Bodleian benefited from funding from the Oxford University GLAM Digital Strategy Implementation Programme, and the technical redevelopment was completed in partnership with text & bytes LLC. The Bodleian Libraries are committed to digitizing as many of our special collections holdings as possible, but the vastness of these holdings means that only a relatively small amount is available online. If you would like to explore our special collections further, there are a number of additional online resources available. These include the main library catalogue for print collections SOLO, where information about, for example, rare books can be found; Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts, which contains information about our post-1500 archival and manuscript collections; and numerous TEI catalogues, which contain records for our Western medieval and non-Western manuscript collections. Guidance on all of our available finding aids is provided by Weston Library Special Collections. Digital Bodleian also works in partnership with a number of Oxford colleges and Digital Humanities projects to deliver images of their collections.

博德利图书馆数字化平台（Digital Bodleian）于2015年首次上线，旨在将博德利图书馆（Bodleian Libraries）丰富非凡的馆藏数字化内容整合至统一门户。博德利图书馆自20世纪90年代初便启动馆藏数字化工作，而该平台的设计初衷始终是为最广泛的受众提供这些数字化内容的访问权限。博德利图书馆数字化平台很快便成为依托博德利图书馆馆藏开展研究与教学的核心资源，自上线以来，平台使用量逐年稳步攀升。
该平台于2020年末完成升级改版，推出全新优化的搜索与资源发现界面，旨在达成以下目标：优化馆藏资源的搜索、筛选与浏览流程；完善条目级元数据的展示；支持非商业性研究与教学场景下的高清分辨率图像查看与下载；优化博德利图书馆馆藏内容的管理与分发，并为牛津大学各学院、数字人文项目等合作方提供内容分发服务。
此次改版升级获得了牛津大学画廊、图书馆、档案馆与博物馆（GLAM）数字战略实施计划的资助，平台的技术重构工作由text & bytes LLC协作完成。
博德利图书馆致力于尽可能多地对本馆特藏馆藏进行数字化，但馆藏体量庞大，仅有相对少量的内容能够上线公开。若您希望进一步探索本馆特藏，可通过多种其他在线资源获取相关信息：包括本馆印刷型馆藏的官方目录SOLO，可查询珍稀图书等相关内容；博德利档案馆与手稿部（Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts），收录1500年后的档案与手稿馆藏信息；以及多份文本编码倡议（TEI）目录，涵盖西方中世纪手稿与非西方手稿馆藏的记录。韦斯顿图书馆特藏部（Weston Library Special Collections）提供本馆所有可用检索工具的使用指南。
博德利图书馆数字化平台还与多家牛津大学学院及数字人文项目开展合作，为其提供馆藏图像的分发服务。

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Digital Bodleian是牛津大学博德利图书馆推出的数字门户，自2015年启动以来，致力于整合并开放其丰富的数字化馆藏，包括手稿、地图和照片等资源，以支持广泛的研究和教学用途。该门户在2020年重新启动，优化了搜索和图像访问功能，旨在为全球用户提供便捷的访问体验。