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The National Library will be digital thanks to its BNElab laboratory

Given the breakthrough of new technologies and the weight it has taken on society , in the media and institutions and public bodies, the National Library of Spain He didn't want to stay behind and just presented his plan to be digitally known: BNElab.It is a virtual space designed to promote the reuse of the library's assets in digital formats, but also wants to promote new products and services based on these contents.

First, to take After this ambitious project, it is necessary to improve and enrich the BNE data sets and promote their free use. In addition, it is important to encourage the creation of new digital products and services from the collections of the BNE that show new uses of the heritage and its interest for the different sectors, although without a doubt, the main objective is to give a greater value to the 33 million works that the BNE guards so that others reuse them and find new uses for this heritage. There are already projects underway to achieve this goal and some progress of those that are about to be presented, which you can find in a section of the laboratory in the w eb.



the digitalization of the national library


Among others, an algorithm capable of composing Haydn's minuets has been launched , as we have read in Expansion.It has been baptized as 'Philharmonic game' and is an innovative technological development made from an 18th-century manuscript that is preserved in the funds of the BNE.This initiative proposes a method of creating minuets through a dice game.


The project reproduces and recreates digitally the operation of this game , very popular at the time and that was conceived as an entertainment for social gatherings, but also as a theoretical study of musical composition.A simple dice game, anyone without musical knowledge could compose countless small pieces in the form of a minue.


This initiative is the result of an agreement signed last year between the National Library of Spain and Red.es , and represents a boost to the undoubted cultural value of the BNE funds.


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Source: Expansion

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