World Heritage Digital Library in Portugal: The Convent of the Order of Christ and the Castle of the Order of the Temple

Creating a Digital Library for the Convent of Christ and Templar Castle will gather vast resources with information related to these monuments and related to themes within them (e.g. Templars, Discoveries). Our goal is to contribute to the Europeana Digital Library with items coming from the Digital Library of the Convent of Christ and items coming from the other world heritage monasteries classified by Unesco in Portugal. Those contents may be not only architecture plans, manuscripts or photographs, but also publications of different origins today unknown or in dispersed owners. New education services and new other services like the access to information through a PDA during the visit to the monument can be promoted. Also, new merchandising and new tourist products can be developed to commercialize either locally or through ebusiness. This project promotes better culture understanding, innovation, research and development, tolerance and a new awareness of the common European heritage by having it new and online.