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BGH hears “legal dispute concerning framing” between Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst and Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
On Thursday, the 21st February 2019, the Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe (Federal Court of Justice) (BGH) will hear the legal dispute between the Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst (VG...
Award Ceremony Cultural Hackathon „Coding Da Vinci“ in the Mainz State Museum
On December 1st, the winners of the Cultural Hackathon “Coding Da Vinci Rhein-Main” ("Coding Da Vinci Rhine-Main") were determined in Mainz. With a festive award ceremony in the...
The Digital Horizon 03: "The Virtual Migration Museum – A Journey through Time and Space"
In future we will be presenting exciting topics and projects from data partners and cooperation partners of the German Digital Library in a series of guest articles: whether it is a new...
We are the DDB: Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication
The Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication is unique in Germany with its collections. These document the historic development of the postal and telecommunication service with its...
We are the DDB: Gleimhaus - Museum of the German Enlightenment
The Gleimhaus is one of the oldest German literary museums, established in 1862 in the former residential building of the poet and collector Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719-1803) at...
Performance, Speed, New Usage Scenarios – Modernisation of Total Architecture Secures Sustainability of the DDB
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) has put into operation a completely renewed system architecture on the basis of sustainable technologies and thus has...
Kammergericht Berlin (Court of Appeal) Decides Copyright Dispute in Favour of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
In a currently pending test case dealing with issues of technological measures to prevent framing, the Court of Appeal passed a ground-breaking judgement in the second instance on 18th...
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...
We are the DDB: The Schloss- und Spielkartenmuseum Altenburg (Castle and Playing Card Museum Altenburg)
The Schloss- und Spielkartenmuseum Altenburg almost classically embodies the type of association within a larger and regionally anchored museum – a „multidisciplinary institution“. It...
The Digital Horizon 01: „Eventful Years – A Web Journal for the Exploration of Art Nouveau“
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...
“Exploiting the innovative potential of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek” – An interview with the Managing Director Dr. Uwe Müller
In July 2017 we published an interview with Frank Frischmuth, Manager for Finance, Law, Communication of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Now we are questioning Dr. Uwe Müller, Manager...
We are the DDB: Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum of Film and Television
Collecting, storing, indexing, presenting and communicating the audiovisual heritage – these have been the tasks of the Deutsche Kinemathek since it was opened in Berlin in 1963. The...
We are the DDB: The Lette Verein Berlin
The Lette Association Berlin is a foundation under public law and bears the term “association” merely in its name. At its prominent location at Viktoria-Luise-Platz in Schöneberg the...
We are the DDB: The Museum of Art and Design Hamburg
With around 500,000 objects from 4,000 years of the history of mankind, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) (Museum of Art and Design Hamburg) is one of the most important...
Willing to share?
The question of the willingness to share digitally and to make digital participation possible assumes that the cultural heritage institutions (museums, collections and archives) have an...
We are the DDB: The Museum Ludwig in Köln
The Museum Ludwig is one of the most important museums for the art of the 20th century as well as contemporary art in Germany. It was founded in 1976 on the occasion of the gift of 350...
We are the DDB: University Library of Kassel - State Library and Murhard Library of the City of Kassel
The University Library of Kassel - State Library and Murhard Library of the City of Kassel is the library system of the University of Kassel existing in this form since 1976. As the...
We are the DDB: The Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Fulda
In 1776 the Fürstbischof (Prince-Bishop) Heinrich von Bibra founded a public library in Fulda. It consisted of holdings which had been collected for the most part in the convent library...
We are the DDB: The Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
The Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (University Library of Heidelberg) is the central library in the library system of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. The central library...