Summary
Old and rare materials are one of the most relevant sources of information for book and library historians. Researching of those materials contributes to the knowledge of the book’s history not only in the context of the institution in which the book is studied, but also more broadly, in national and global context. The article gives a short introduction of the old and rare books cataloguing standards in Croatian heritage institutions. Contemporary trends in the processing of old and rare materials with the use of comparative advantages of the new electronic media in dealing with these types of materials are presented on the example of the digital library Edicija.
The texts are presented in several layers, one of which shows a digitized text of the book, the second presents a comparative presentation of the images and text with annotations and at the end the download of the content, in the form of the image or text is enabled. Search is enabled by using the usual bibliographic data, but also with the words from the text, and tags placed within the text work like the index in printed books.

Keywords:
old and rare materials, ISBD(A), UNIMARC, TEI, digital humanities, Edicija.

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