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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...
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...
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...
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...
Our DDBforum: Information, Workshop Reports, Discussions, Exchanges
The DDBforum will be held for the first time in Berlin on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th June. The event is integrated within the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 –...
100 years of women’s suffrage in Germany
The Pitcairn Islands are one of the last British overseas colonies, lying in the middle of the Pacific, 5,000 kilometres away from New Zealand and 5,400 kilometres away from South...
Managerial change at the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg
On the occasion of the farewell of Prof. Dr. Robert Kretzschmar as President of the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (National Archive Baden-Württemberg) and the concurrent appointment of...
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...
The history of the Christmas tree: From frost-plagued Northmen and gilded potatoes
By far the most popular Christmas tree in German living rooms is the Nordmann-Fir. Soft needles, dark green and beautifully grown, these are the features why the Fir is sold million of...
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...
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: The beta version went online five years ago
On 28th November 2012 the first public beta version of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) (German Digital Library) went online: on this occasion we would like to review what there...
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...
Mobile Libraries: From the Serviceman Library to the Bookmobile
The idea of a mobile library already arose in the 18th century, when serviceman libraries took an elitist approach and were only available to soldiers. Then during the Franco-Prussian...
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...
A Short Cultural History of Rain or Why Rain assists Democracy
In the history of mankind rain, as a cultural phenomenon, has had and still has the most diverse forms and influences: at this point we would like to talk about hydraulic empires, royal...
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....
The invention of the postal service: about special deliveries, Hereditary First Postmaster Generals and what Thurn und Taxis had to do with it
When the American parcel service begins operating in 1913, customers and staff alike are not quite sure how the service should be specifically used. It is not known in its entirety what...
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...