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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 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...
#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...
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...
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...
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...