What is a digital object?
Digital objects are the items that you find in a digital library, such as The European Library. They may have originally been physical items (such as a book, photograph or a painting) or may be sound, videos and animations, which have been digitised to make them available online. Among digital items, there are also “born digital” objects, which are documents that were created and exist only in a digital format like e-journals or e-theses.
