''Scriptorium'' is the
digital library
A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital ...
of the
Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire
The Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne (''Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne'', BCU) was founded in the 16th century and became one of the most important public libraries in Switzerland.
History
The University of L ...
(BCU), part of the
University of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switze ...
in the Swiss canton of
Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms ...
. It was launched on 7 December 2012 and initially included more than a million pages of
digitized newspapers published in Vaud canton. All of the content is freely available to the public on the Scriptorium website. In their annual report, BCU reported 2,973,638 visits to Scriptorium Digital Library for its first full year of availability (2013).
By the end of 2013, the collection had grown to 2,153,176 pages.
Unlike a typical digital library, Scriptorium allows
full-text search
In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original tex ...
through its entire collection. Every word that is found is highlighted directly on scanned images.
Scriptorium includes the following digital collections:
*''24 Heures''
*''Annonces et avis divers''
*''Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne''
*''Feuille périodique''
*''Allez savoir!''
*''UNI Lausanne''
*''Uniscope''
*''Almanach Balthasar''
*''Almanach de Chalamala''
*''Chut''
*''Croquis vaudois''
*''Gribouille et Redzipe''
*''La Bombe''
*''La Cancoire''
*''La Crecelle''
*''La Fronde''
*''La Griffe''
*''La Guêpe''
*''La Lanterne de Petollion''
*''La Marge''
*''La Pomme''
*''L'Arbalète''
*''Le Bistouri''
*''Le Bonjour de Jack Rollan''
*''Le Canard libre''
*''Le Charivari''
*''Le Clairon du Nord''
*''Le Frondeur''
*''Le Grelot''
*''Le Journal de Jack Rollan''
*''Le Kangourou''
*''Le Moniteur''
*''Le Moustique''
*''Le Passe-Temps''
*''Le Père Jérôme''
*''Le Semeur''
*''Mépris''
*''Propos vaudois''
*''Domaine Public''
*''Journal helvétique''
*''Mercure suisse''
*''Messager boiteux''
*''Nouvelliste suisse''
*''L'Estafette: Journal suisse''
*''Le Matin - Lausanne''
*''Presse Lausannoise''
*''Tribune de Lausanne - Le Matin''
*''Tribune de Lausanne et Estafette''
*''La petite revue''
*''La revue''
*''La revue agricole''
*''La revue de Lausanne''
*''La revue du dimanche''
*''Lausanne-Soir''
*''Nouvelle revue''
*''Nouvelle revue de Lausanne''
*''Nouvelle revue de Lausanne et du Pays de Vaud''
*''Nouvelle revue et journal politique''
*''Nouvelle revue hebdo''
*''L'ami de la vérité: journal du Canton de Vaud''
*''Le nouvelliste vaudois''
*''Nouvelliste vaudois: journal liberal démocratique''
*''Nouvelliste vaudois et journal national suisse''
*''Journal de Charles Constant''
References
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External links
Scriptorium Digital Library
Swiss digital libraries
Online archives
Internet properties established in 2012