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7th Library Congress Leipzig 2019: »Changing Libraries«: Save the Date!
For the 7th time the Library Congress is taking place in Leipzig, this year from 18th – 21st March 2019, and will be welcoming The Netherlands as the featured country, whose innovative...

kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de: Lower Saxony's cultural memory
Our publication "Federal Diversity – Global Networking: Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" (released in September 2016) for the first time...

Digital Cultural Heritage and digital access to culture in Hamburg
Our publication "Federal Diversity – Global Networking: Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" (released in September 2016) for the first time...

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...

Open & Networked – The German Digital Library at the Librarians‘ Day 2018 in Berlin
The 107th Librarians’ Day took place in the Estrel Congress Center in Berlin from 12 June to 15 June. Under the title “Open & Networked”, this year’s event once again offered a wide...

Digitisation of Cultural Assets in the Federal State of Bremen
Our publication "Federal Diversity – Global Networking: Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" (released in September 2016) for the first time...

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...

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...

Brandenburg.digital - An article by Ulf Preuß
Our publication "Federal Diversity – Global Networking: Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" (released in September 2016) for the first time...

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...

Bavaria: Digitising Cultural Heritage
Our publication "Federal Diversity – Global Networking: Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" (released in September 2016) for the first time...

The digitisation of cultural assets within the area of responsibility of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Wuerttemberg
Our publication "Federal Diversity – Global Networking: Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" for the first time provides a more comprehensive...

„Federal Diversity – Global Networking“: A Foreword By Ellen Euler and Paul Klimpel
Our publication "Federal Diversity – Global Networking: Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" (released in September 2016) for the first time...

The Images of Digitisation II – “Federal Diversity – Global Networking”
The photographer and film scholar Jürgen Keiper has already contributed a series of photographs to the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek’s first publication, “Der Vergangenheit eine Zukunft....

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...

That’s going too far! – Papyrus, Parchment and Ancient Library Wars
In February 2016 Great Britain was shaken by a scandal. To save costs, the dual original copies of new legislative texts for Parliament and the National Archives were no longer to be...

Making Cultural Heritage visible on the Internet. Position paper of the Deutscher Museumsbund (German Museums Association)
The first publication of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek “A Future for the Past – Cultural Heritage in the Digital World” (“Der Vergangenheit eine Zukunft – Kulturelles Erbe in der...

New Publication: Federal Diversity – Global Networking. Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World
The second volume of the series "Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek has just been published. For the first time, the anthology provides a more...