Archive
Happy Birthday Europeana – more than just a big sister
In November 2008 it went online for the first time – the European digital library “Europeana”, launched by six European Heads of State and Government and the President of the Commission...
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...
Our First DDBforum: A Review
„Cultural heritage is no end in itself, it is the future of all of us“ – this closing statement by Dr. Uwe Koch, national coordinator of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018...
The Digital Horizon 02: „Gerda Koepff, pioneering collector of Art Nouveau glass“
In a series of guest contributions, we will present exciting topics and projects of data and cooperation partners of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek in the future: be it a new way of...
A Little Snow, Many Books And We Were Right in the Middle: The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018
Although snow and ice made it difficult or even impossible for many visitors to attend the fair – trains no longer came through – a total of 270,000 visitors found their way to the...
Words for Diversity: The Leipzig Book Fair 2018 – Save the Date!
“Many topics will be discussed in eventful times as a matter of course. We look forward to being a platform for these discussions – sometimes loud, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes...
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...
Chronicles, animal sounds and Rigoletto over and over again: The Leipzig Book Fair 2017
This year's booth of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek is in hall 5, between the taz-studio, a small carpentry, the blogger lounge and the booth of the City of Magdeburg. Many people...
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at the Leipzig Book Fair 2017
From 23 to 26 March a total of 2,100 exhibitors will present themselves to around 260,000 visitors in over 3,200 events at the largest German public fair, the Leipzig Book Fair. The...
A brief review of three spring trade fairs
During the week from 14 to 20 March 2016, staff from Frankfurt, Berlin and Stuttgart came to represent us with stands, consultations and lectures at CeBIT, the Library Congress in...
I am @europeanaeu: Find your hero(ine) in Europeana
From Asta Nielsen to Zoroaster , there are lots of famous faces from history in Europeana. Old, young, familiar or sometimes even forgotten. But who inspires you, and why?
We want you...
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at the large trade fairs in March
If you visit the CeBIT in Hanover or the Library Congress and the Book Fair in Leipzig in March, you are very welcome to pay us a visit at our stands. This year we are present at the...
Delivery of Internet Publications by the Quote Contributor. Securing the Stability of Online Sources in Science - An article by Jan Schallaböck
The first publication of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, “A Future for the Past – Cultural Heritage in a Digital World” appeared in March of 2015.
From ESE to EDM and Beyond: How Europeana is Facilitating Access to Cultural Heritage Objects
The first publication of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, “A Future for the Past – Cultural Heritage in a Digital World” appeared in March of 2015.
We are the DDB: The Geomuseum of the WWU Münster
The Geomuseum of the WWU (Westphalian Wilhelm University) is the oldest natural history museum in Westphalia. It was founded in 1824 as "museum mineralogicum et zoologicum" – well...
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...