Hispana brings together the digital collections of archives, libraries and museums according to the Open Archives Initiative being promoted by the European Union, and with respect to Spanish digital repositories, it performs functions that are analogous to those of Europeana regarding European repositories, in other words it acts as a content aggregator of digital collection databases.

Highlights of these collections include the institutional repositories of Spanish universities and the digital libraries of Autonomous Communities, which offer access to growing sets of all types of materials (manuscripts, printed books, photographs, maps, etc.) of the Spanish bibliographic heritage.

Through Hispana, the digital libraries of the Autonomous Communities and other, local digital libraries contribute their content to the EuropeanaLocal project, in which the Ministry of Culture participates as a national coordinator, together with 32 other institutions from 26 countries.

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