Top 10 - Manuscripts, Archives or Documents to Digitize

[Koen G]

I think that a related problem is that many library websites have terrible search interfaces and manuscript browsers so it can be really hard to quickly find a manuscript and study it

This... I fully understand that this is costly and harder than it looks, and I really appreciate all those places putting their manuscripts out there.

But it is a missed opportunity that there is not more uniformity in these manuscript viewers. For example, if you're looking for a specific image, you really need thumbnail views. I cannot understand why the BL doesn't have this function, for example. In my opinion, BNF for example does a much better job.

If there was a payed service that streamlines all these viewers, I would subscribe to it. I would also imagine that for institutions it could be more efficient to share their knowledge and cooperate instead of all developing and implementing their own tools.