This paper presents the project Bibliographic Database of Interactive Books (BDIB), which seeks to reconstruct the landscape of European animated book production from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. The project is conceived as a large-scale bibliographical enterprise aimed at advancing knowledge of these artefacts and fostering their study by investigating their production tech-niques, economic dimension, socio-cultural readership, and modes of use.Rather than functioning as a traditional catalogue, BDIB operates as an aggre-gator of bibliographic data drawn from a wide range of heterogeneous interna-tional sources, both primary and secondary, including library catalogues, private collections, booksellers’ catalogues, publishers’ lists, and auction records.The BDIB portal forms part of the Share Family ecosystem, an international col-laborative initiative that employs Linked Open Data (LOD) technologies to con-vert library catalogue records into LOD according to the BIBFRAME model. By integrating bibliographical research with digital infrastructures, the project aims to provide a new research tool for the study of interactive books and their circu-lation within the history of the book.
Il contributo intende illustrare il progetto Bibliographic Database of Interactive Books (BDIB), che si propone di ricostruire il panorama della produzione europea dei libri interattivi dal XIII al XX secolo. Il progetto è concepito come un’impresa bibliografica su larga scala volta ad accrescere la conoscenza di questi artefatti e a promuoverne lo studio attraverso l’analisi delle loro tecniche di produzione, della dimensione economica, della composizione socio-culturale dei lettori e delle loro modalità di fruizione. Piuttosto che configurarsi come un catalogo tradizionale, BDIB opera come un aggregatore di dati bibliografici provenienti da un’ampia gamma di fonti internazionali eterogenee, sia primarie che secondarie, tra cui cataloghi di biblioteche, collezioni private, cataloghi di vendita, editoriali, d’asta ecc. Il portale BDIB fa parte dell’ecosistema Share Family, un’iniziativa collaborativa internazionale che utilizza tecnologie Linked Open Data (LOD) per convertire i dati dei cataloghi bibliotecari in LOD secondo il modello BIBFRAME. Integrando la ricerca bibliografica con infrastrutture digitali, il progetto mira a offrire un nuovo strumento di ricerca per lo studio dei libri interattivi e della loro circolazione nell’ambito della storia del libro.
BDIB: the first Bibliographic Database of Interactive Books / Crupi, G., Di Sabato, A., Guercio, A., Giacomelli, M.. - In: DIGITALIA. - ISSN 1972-621X. - 21:1(2026), pp. 93-106. [10.36181/digitalia-00159]
BDIB: the first Bibliographic Database of Interactive Books
Alice GuercioUltimo
;Michela GiacomelliPrimo
2026
Abstract
This paper presents the project Bibliographic Database of Interactive Books (BDIB), which seeks to reconstruct the landscape of European animated book production from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. The project is conceived as a large-scale bibliographical enterprise aimed at advancing knowledge of these artefacts and fostering their study by investigating their production tech-niques, economic dimension, socio-cultural readership, and modes of use.Rather than functioning as a traditional catalogue, BDIB operates as an aggre-gator of bibliographic data drawn from a wide range of heterogeneous interna-tional sources, both primary and secondary, including library catalogues, private collections, booksellers’ catalogues, publishers’ lists, and auction records.The BDIB portal forms part of the Share Family ecosystem, an international col-laborative initiative that employs Linked Open Data (LOD) technologies to con-vert library catalogue records into LOD according to the BIBFRAME model. By integrating bibliographical research with digital infrastructures, the project aims to provide a new research tool for the study of interactive books and their circu-lation within the history of the book.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


