e-codices–Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland: Great Achievements and Even Greater Challenges to Come

For over ten years, e-codices–Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland has been publishing medieval and select modern manuscripts from Swiss collections online at www.e-codices.ch. The website links highquality digital reproductions with descriptive metadata, all of which are searchable. The digital library offers free public access in four languages (English, French, German, and Italian). The home institution of e-codices is the Medieval Institute at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). This article presents e-codices along with information regarding technical specifications, metadata and digitization. It highlights some of the digital manuscript library's special features and interesting projects, and it addresses challenges for the future of digital infrastructures such as e-codices.