Project Lib2Life - The project Lib2Life – the Revival of libraries and cultural heritage through advanced technologies has the purpose of reviving the role of the libraries as core institutions in the educational process; to give full meaning to a cultural heritage often shaded by the magnetism of the new digital formulas invading the concrete reality; to reinvent reading practices according to the profile of the contemporary user.

The project Lib2Life is developed by a consortium of four Central University Libraries, University Politehnica şi and the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, bringing together top specialists in the field of restoration of heritage documents, library science and advanced IT technologies.

The methods and techniques that will be put into practice will follow the highest standards of scientific innovation, without neglecting practical applicability. Thus, along with the colloquia and scientific publications, much of the Lib2Life project’s results have high socio-economic value: patents, registers and public access databases, software apps, guides for strategies and good practice.

The four subcomponents has the following common goals:

1. Identifying new solutions for preserving cultural heritage;
2. Promoting patrimony through up-to-date methods and technologies;
3. Increasing access to info-documentary resources;
4. Improving library services;
5. Transferring knowledge and technology to society.

The project will employ the highest standards of scientific innovation while ensuring practical applicability. Aside from colloquies and scientific publications, the results will also consist in pronounced socio-economic value: patents, registers and data-bases, software applications, strategies and good-practice guides. Aside from direct beneficiaries, i.e. the users of the four university central libraries (approximately 100.000 students, professors, researchers), the project is also addressed to the following public segments: the national library network, Romanian diaspora, national and international specialists in conservation-rehabilitation of the patrimony, public institutions and decision-making structures in the areas of education, culture and informational society.

Aside from direct beneficiaries, i.e. the users of the four university central libraries (approximately 100.000 students, professors, researchers), the project is also addressed to the following public segments: the national library network, Romanian diaspora, national and international specialists in conservation-rehabilitation of the patrimony, public institutions and decision-making structures in the areas of education, culture and informational society.

Lib2Life – The revival of libraries and cultural heritage through advanced technologies aims to achieve the following results:

25 ISI articles/conferences;
The employment of 15 new researchers;
5 patent applications;
1 database of the standard heritage documents;
1 digital depot (4 million scanned pages);
3 prototype algorithms for document searching, indexing and recommendation;
1 prototype for 3D library building reconstruction;
1 annotation system prototype for 3-5 million titles.