Films, Cultural Treasures and Yesterday's News : The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at Digitaltag 2022
By Astrid B. Müller (Communication, Press, Marketing)
On the occasion of the Digitaltag on 24 June 2022, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek invites you to four events and presents various facets of its online offerings. Digitaltag is a nationwide day of action for digital participation that aims to make digitisation an everyday experience for all citizens with numerous activities. On Digitaltag, people come together at various event formats all over Germany to discover digital technologies together and get to know them better.
The actions of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek take place online throughout the day. The object search on the website of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek will be explained, the archive search online in the Archivportal-D will be explained, "old" news will be discovered in historical newspapers with the Zeitungsportal (newspaper portal) and finally, in the online participatory workshop, you can learn how to create your own stickers for the Signal Messenger from cultural treasures.
All activities of Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at Digitaltag on 24 June 2022 at a glance
Please Note: The following event will be postponed due to illness: 10:00 Uhr – 10:45
Discover 1920s films, Marlene Dietrich evening gowns and more online! Live presentation
Discovering cultural treasures with the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek? We show you how it's done: step by step with many examples, safely through the search mask and filter - and we give you useful tips along the way. A live online search in the digital treasury.
Due to illness, we have to cancel this event at short notice. If you are interested in the workshop, please contact us via e-mail at j.fernow [at] hv.spk-berlin.de.
11:00 - 12:00
Forefathers and ancestors and online - searching and finding in archives. Live presentation
Finding digitised original documents and searching for ancestors with the archive portal? We show you how it's done: finding old documents step by step and moving safely through the search mask and filters - and we give you useful tips along the way. We also show how the thematic portal "Weimar Republic" works.
Without registration. The link to the Webex room is published on digitaltag.eu and shared on social media at @ddbkultur.
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12:00 - 13:30
Your very own stickers made from cultural treasures for the Signal Messenger! An online participatory workshop
Who wants to make their own stickers for the Signal Messenger? It's surprisingly easy to do, and we'll show you how! More than 14 million digital cultural treasures from the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek are available as the basis for the sticker artworks. To participate in the workshop, a computer, the Signal app and "Signal for Desktop" are required.
The number of participants is limited to 12. With registration. After registering at a.riedel [at] hv.spk-berlin.de you will receive the link to the Webex room.
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16:00 - 16:45
Yesterday's news: read online and marvel at historical newspapers. Live presentation
Searching yesterday's news with the newspaper portal? We show you how to do it, present the various search options step by step and reveal tips and tricks: How do I find newspaper articles about my hometown or my sports club? How can search terms be combined? How do I narrow down search results? And what are full texts?
The number of participants is limited. With registration. After registering at l.landes [at] dnb.de, you will receive the link to the Zoom Room.
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All activities of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at a glance
The Digitaltag is supported by the initiative "Digital für alle" (Digital for all), an alliance of 27 organisations from the fields of civil society, culture, science, business, welfare and the public sector. The declared goal is to promote digital participation: All people in Germany should be enabled to move confidently and self-determinedly in the digital world.
More information on the Digitaltag www.digitaltag.eu
All the events on the events map https://digitaltag.eu/aktionslandkarte
All events in the overview https://digitaltag.eu/aktionsuebersicht