Questions:

1.  What is the Digital Library of Castilla y León (BDCYL)?

2.  What are its aims?

3.  What does it contains?

4.  What type of resources does it include?

5.  Where do the digitized resources come from?

6.  Can I suggest new works to incorporate to the BDCYL?

7.  How can I incorporate mi works to the BDCYL?

8.  How can I look for information in the BDCYL?

9.  How can I use the image visualization of the BDCYL?

10.  What are the miniaturized images?

11.  What are the standards used by the (BDCYL)?

12.   What is an OAI-PMH repository?

Answers:

1.What is the Digital Library of Castilla y León ( BDCYL)?

The Castilla y León Digital Library (BDCYL) is a project from the Cultural and Tourism Department which belongs to the Castilla y León Regional Government. Its main aim is to allow people to freely access the bibliographic and documental collections from Castilla y León authors and topics that the regional libraries and archives hold. Thus our bibliography and documental heritage is spread and the preservation of the most valuable books is possible due to their digitalization.

 

 

2. What are BDCYL aims?

This project's aims are:

  • To help in the knowledge and research of Castilla y Leon's Culture, History, Language and other aspects through the access of the digitalized works or edited in digital format that BDCYL holds.
  • To spread the work of Castilla y León authors from all periods, paying special attention to some contemporary authors.
  • To place in the palm of the hand to people in general and researchers the most important works from the different regions in Castilla y León as a way to help them in their local researches.
  • To make the Castilla y León bibliographic heritage accessible to all the population through the digital versions. Therefore, the heritage collections will be open for all users, erasing the current restrictions of consulting the original works which have a great historical value.
  • To allow the creation of educative and formative platforms destined to all levels and to help the general population in the Castilian heritage through thematic, chronological or sectorised presentations that contribute to a wider spread of the knowledge.

 

3.What does BDCYL contains?

BDCYL holds more than 26.000 digital resources and more than 3.900.000 images that are regularly increased.

The BDCYL includes the following contents:

  • Works written by authors  from Castilla y León
  • Works about Castilla y León in any field: history, institutions, art, science, language, literature, culture, etc...
  • Works about the different regions and localities belonging to Castilla y León
  • Printed works in the Castilla y León regions
  • Serials publications  of the Autonomous region
  • Bibliographic and biographic repertoires
  • Published works by Castilla y León editorial institutions and entities.
  • Works from the bibliographic heritage that honour other regions.

 

4.What type of resources does it include?

The BDCYL includes all kind of digitized printed and audio-visual material such as books, documents, newspapers, magazines, maps, engravings, photographs and other resources.

5. Where do the digitized resources come from? 

BDCYL digital resources are done with the works from the following facilities:

  • Biblioteca de Castilla y León
  • Biblioteca Pública Provincial de Ávila
  • Biblioteca Pública Provincial de Burgos
  • Biblioteca Pública Provincial de León
  • Biblioteca Pública Provincial de Palencia
  • Biblioteca Pública Provincial de Salamanca
  • Biblioteca Pública Provincial de Segovia
  • Biblioteca Pública Provincial de Soria
  • Biblioteca Pública Provincial de Zamora
  • Biblioteca de la Fundación Joaquín Díaz. Urueña (Valladolid)
  • Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Astorga
  • Biblioteca de la Diputación Provincial de Burgos
  • Biblioteca "Domínguez Berrueta" de la Diputación Provincial de León
  • Biblioteca Histórica de la Universidad de Salamanca
  • Biblioteca Histórica de Santa Cruz de la Universidad de Valladolid
  • Archivo Municipal de Valladolid
  • Museo de Valladolid
  • Biblioteca de los PP. Jesuitas de Burgos
  • Biblioteca Diocesana de Zamora
  • Biblioteca de Andalucía
  • Biblioteca Pública Provincial de Cádiz

6.  Can I suggest new works to incorporate to the BDCYL? 

BDCYL wishes to become a cooperative project.  It is especially open to the proposals of authors or rights’ holders wanting to include new works to the digital library.

You can send your proposals for the inclusion of new works to the BDCYL main coordination address through the e-mail bcl@jcyl.es or through any of the addresses that you can find in the “Content” section on the home page.

In your proposal please indicate as detailed as possible the features of the work you want to include in the BDCYL. Pease include:

  • Author
  • Title
  • Editorial
  • Year of publication

 

Do not forget to write down in your proposal your personal details:

  • Name and surname
  • Identification number
  • Address
  • E-mail

 

 

7. How can I incorporate mi works in the BDCYL? 

BDCYL wishes to become a cooperative project.  It is especially open to the proposals of authors or rights’ holders wanting to include new works to the digital library.

If you are the author of a work or works you can send your proposals for their inclusion to the BDCYL main coordination address through the e-mail bcl@jcyl.es or through any of the addresses that you can find in the “Content” section on the home page.

We will contact you to indicate the way of incorporating the books, images, etc. to the BDCYL.

In your proposal please indicate as detailed as possible the features of the work you want to include in the BDCYL. Pease include:

  • Author
  • Title
  • Editorial
  • Year of publication

 

Do not forget to write down in your proposal your personal details:

  • Name and surname
  • Identification number
  • Address
  • E-mail

 

8. How can I look for information in the BDCYL? 

The BDCYL is intended for all kinds of users; from researchers who work in the university field to the population who are interested in knowing their local history.

The BDCYL offers the possibility of doing searches in the whole text of the digitalized works in order to help everyone who is looking for information. This service, based on the optical recognition of digits multiples the possibilities of information recovery and allows finding any author’s name, locality etc. that appears in any of the work’s pages.

The usual research system is also available through the Digital Library catalogue, where there is a wide variety of search options.

  • Assisted search
  • Advanced search
  • Author search
  •  Title search
  •  Subject search
  • Place search
  • Serials search
  • Serials by date search

 The option How to look for information? From the main menu can help you in the exploration of the catalogue. 

 

9. How can I use the image visualization of the BDCYL? 

There are many options in the upper visualization image navigation bar:

  •  Miniaturize: shows images in miniature form.
  •  Zoom: allows to increase and decrease the size of the screen image
  •  Fit to window: adjusts the image size to the window size.
  •  Fit to width: adjusts the image width to the window size.
    •   Full scale: adjusts the image size to its real size.
    •   Turn: allows turning the image both clockwise and anti-clockwise.
    •      Save: allows the user to download images from a window, a section or the whole document.
    •  Print: allows printing the visualized page.

 

10. What are the miniaturized images? 

BDCYL allows the access to small images which help the location of a work’s page. The user can access the miniaturized images by clicking the symbol .

 

11. What are the standards used by the (BDCYL)?

The BDCYL includes the different standard types applicable to this short of projects (MARC, DC, METS, PREMIS, ALTO, ESE, etc.). This allows the digital resources’ description international standardization.

 

12. What is an OAI-PMH repository?

OAI is the acronym for Open Archives Initiative. Its main objective is to make easier the access and the recovery of digitized resources, and to help to do a deeper search in bibliographic resources linked to culture, science and digitized teaching.

It is a widely extended regulation that is supported by a simple message-exchange protocol and by the registers codification according the metadata Dublin Core scheme that allows describing the bibliographic information in a simple and flexible manner.  

The BDCYL includes a repository OAI-PMH that follows the model of ISO. This allows the registration and recollection of the Digital Library by the most important national and international collectors, contributing to its content spread.