http://laurentius.lub.lu.se/
Selection Criteria
They are digitizing all of their medieval manuscripts for preservation purposes and to make them more widely available. Their collection is 67 volumes and they are digitizing every page as well as the bindings (front, back, spine, top, side and bottom.)
Metadata
The catalogue entries give as much information as is known. Usually this is: title or subject, date of origin, and language. Many also include author, alternate title, place of origin. Once you click on an entry you can get a detailed description including physical description and measurements, provenance, and sometimes a bibliography.
Object Characteristics
This site has one of the best descriptions of the digitization process that I have seen. They list the types of cameras, types of lenses, type of light, the manuscript cradle and type of computer. Images are loaded to the server using FTP; master files are tiff, viewing files are jpg and thumbnails are gif. Image sizes are 1024x1536, 72 dpi.
Audience
I think the intended audience is, first, scholars; the website and image database (and in English!) will make it easier for scholars around the world to discover what this library has and do research from a distance. I think the image quality and certainly the number of images make detailed research possible via the internet. Of course, being on the internet, a secondary audience is the general public or at least a wider range of scholars (including college and graduate students). The site is certainly informative yet easy enough for anyone to use.
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