The Digital Preservation of a Large-scale Collection of Historical Stock Exchange Price Lists - The Credit Lyonnais “ Capital Markets of the World” Collection, 1850­-2000

The Capital Markets of the World project (hereafter: CMoW) is an attempt to develop the scholarly potential of this comprehensive and unique collection of historical financial information and, simultaneously, to work towards the long-­term sustainable preservation of the latter. Recognizing the fact that accessibility and preservation of the information contained are different, sometimes conflicting, but nevertheless equally important ambitions, the project takes a hybrid approach​. It builds on an analog technology (i.e. microfilm) and a digital one (online description/disclosure in the form of a searchable digital archive). For the production and/or maintenance of both, it employs the expertise of three commercial companies that have been recognized as world leaders in their field.