Introduction

 

Patrimonio Digital de Castilla-La Mancha is the digital repository promoted by the Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes intended to collect the bibliographic and documentary heritage deposited in archives and libraries located in the region and in other collaborating institutions, allowing access to your digital resources from a single point of consultation.

Its mission is to guarantee the dissemination and digital preservation of the heritage conserved in archives, libraries and other institutions of the memory of Castilla-La Mancha, and to facilitate its access to researchers and the general public, contributing to a better knowledge and research of culture, history and regional identity.

Patrimonio Digital de Castilla-La Mancha is conceived as a repository in accordance with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) promoted by the European Union and incorporates the different types of standards applicable to this type of project (METS, Dublin Core, XMLMARC, MARCExchange, Premis and EDM), internationally accepted metadata that allow their participation in national projects (Hispana, Virtual Library of Bibliographic Heritage and Virtual Library of Historical Press) and international projects (Europeana).

Thanks to this, easy access and visibility of the digitized works is guaranteed, allowing the digitized documents to be consulted, read and downloaded in full text and in different formats easily and free of charge.