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The German Federal Cultural Foundation supports cultural hackathon!
There is great joy about the official decision announced on 21 June 2018: within the scope of the programme Kultur digital (working title) of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (KSB), the...
“We live with and are surrounded by cultural heritage”: an interview with Dr. Uwe Koch
The European Commission has proclaimed 2018 the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The initiative for this comes from the Deutsches Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz (DNK) (German...
Congratulations! The Service Centre Digitisation of the Federal State of Berlin digiS is celebrating the 5th anniversary of its funding programme
The Service Centre Digitisation of the Federal State of Berlin is an institution for interdisciplinary advice on support and coordination of digitisation projects and – just like the...
Our Archivportal-D: From the Project Application Via the Establishment and Expansion to the Standard Operation
When the Archivportal-D, a subproject of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Community), went online in September 2014, one...
#12of12: The Archives Department of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and the Archivportal-D – A Portrait in Twelve Pictures
On a very rainy Monday afternoon in Berlin, I take the train to Stuttgart to visit my colleagues from the Archives Department and the Archivportal-D, the sector-specific access to the...
Beards or How Luther (almost) saved the hare
In order to finance the Northern War against the Swedish Empire in 1700, Peter I, Tsar of Russia, had a creative idea: a new tax was needed and so he introduced the “Bartkopeke” (beard...
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Calendar Page: A Brief Daily Glance into History
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek publishes a calendar page daily. A wide range of objects tell of social, political and cultural events that took place on a certain day. Short passages...
New collections: The Historical Images Archive of the Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau
The Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau (Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute) has over 10,000 photographs and images in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, rendering 150 years of...