... technologies). All three are addressed in the papers grouped in four chapters. “The virtual representation of the text” is the first chapter with four papers. Andrew Prescott in the second chapter discusses the role of digital collections for historical research. He stresses that many available digitalized...

.... The middle layer is to preserve the intellectual content of ancient books so that the values for historical research are preserved. The top layer is mainly about preserving the productions process of the artistic format of ancient books, so that not only the static artistic formats are preserved...