title: Giving Access to Multimedia Objects in Libraries with Emulation 
creators: Tobias Steinke
abstract: The German National Library makes collected multimedia objects available onsite within emulated environments. The framework is based on Emulation as a Service and optimized for automatically handling big collections. The paper describes the development in a German research project and the practical integration in the access environment of the library. It also gives an overview of legal aspects related to the emulation framework.