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What do bicycles have to do with freedom? Do unicorns actually exist? And why did the Vikings disappear from Greenland? We address these and other questions in our blog. Here we tell stories based on cultural assets in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, introduce our cooperation partners and immerse ourselves in collections from museums, archives and other cultural institutions.
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#DDBwerkbank: Historical Christmas Cookies
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Ordinary krumkakes, ordinary almond buns, ordinary gingerbread - but these Christmas cookies are anything but ordinary! They are historical recipes, the oldest dating back to 1791 - the year in which Olympe de Gouges wrote the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Citizen’ in Paris. We recreated four historical Christmas cookie recipes for you. The (not so) oridinairy krumkakes even come with video instructions. So put on your apron, put on Rolf Zuckowski and off you go!
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#DDBwerkbank: Historical Knitting for Newbies and...
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Connecting the old with the new - one foot in the analogue past and one in the digital future. This balancing act is one of the effortless warm-up exercises of our daily DDB morning routine. The same is true for knitting.
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The German Digital Library's new offer: Tell your...
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The German Digital Library uses various editorial formats to tell the stories behind the objects on our website. Blog posts and image galleries highlight the collections of a wide range of cultural heritage institutions and encourage our users to engage with this content in new ways. Do you have a story to tell about our content? We'd love to read it!
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Transparency and Dialogue: German Digital Library Launches...
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Via its new online portal “Collections from Colonial Contexts”, the German Digital Library (Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek) offers centralised access to digitalised collections from colonial contexts in all German cultural and academic institutions. The new portal is particularly intended for people from the countries and communities of origin and provides information about the items and their history in German, English and French.
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Mountains, Guesthouses, Sea: The summer months with the...
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It is summer: holiday, travel and excursion time. Reason enough for the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek to take you on a virtual excursion, which can be enjoyed regardless of holiday days or weather conditions.
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Online handout published to make object information from...
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The Minimum Record Recommendation Working Group - an association of important players in the field of digitization of cultural assets - has published the first full version of the Minimum Record Recommendation for Museums and Collections. The online handout offers museums and collections low-threshold access to relevant international standards for the cataloguing and online publication of object information.
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Virtual 3D synagogues in the German Digital Library:...
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The results of the European ‘Twin it!’ campaign were presented during the Belgian EU Council Presidency in Brussels. Initiated by the culture ministries of the EU member states, ‘digital twins’ of important national cultural assets were to be created in collaboration with European cultural heritage institutions - in 3D.
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Event notice for re:publica24: “Interventive histo-knitting...
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For re:publica 2024, we've come up with a special campaign in which we're reversing digitization for once and transforming digitized cultural heritage into completely analogue, fluffy-soft knitwear.
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Agreement between the German Digital Library and VG...
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After years of legal dispute, the German Digital Library has reached an amicable agreement with the collecting society Bild-Kunst (VG Bild-Kunst) regarding the display of works of fine art from its repertoire. As an aggregator, the German Digital Library does not have to take any technical measures against the "framing" of images by third parties for the works displayed on its portals.
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The German Digital Library at the Leipzig Book Fair 2024
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The Leipzig Book Fair is the largest public fair in Germany, the most important spring meeting place for the book and media industry and connects readers, authors, publishers and media - not only from Germany, but from all over the world. Visit us in hall 5 at stand E500!
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