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German Archives Portal soon with thematic access to the Weimar Republic
Over the next one-and-a-half years, the Archivportal-D will be expanded with a new thematic approach. In the future, users shall also have the opportunity to research sources on...
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...
“We live with and are surrounded by cultural heritage”: an interview with Dr. Uwe Koch
The European Commission has proclaimed 2018 the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The initiative for this comes from the Deutsches Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz (DNK) (German...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Our Archivportal-D: From the Project Application Via the Establishment and Expansion to the Standard Operation
When the Archivportal-D, a subproject of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Community), went online in September 2014, one...
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...
#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...
A short history of microfilm and how it facilitated communication in Paris
The history of microfilm is also the history of some very heroic homing pigeons, whose working environment was not exactly one of the most attractive during the Franco-Prussian War of...
The history of the umbrella and its social consequences
It began with mockery, insults and pelted rubbish, when the Englishman Jonas Hanway came back from a trip to France in the early 1750s and went for a walk in London. His fellow citizens...
The selective story of some sailors, shipbuilding and the beginning of an era
When Carl Nicolai Christiansen is born on Sylt in 1864, it lasts only two years until the world would take its first step towards the global village.
Historical menus or The curious story of Frank E. Buttolph
In August of the year 1900, readers of the US “Hotel Monthly” magazine found this advertisement: “It is of great importance that the menus are well-packed and put between two large...
“Archivportal-D” wins “Heritage in Motion Award” 2016
The “Archivportal-D” project – the branch-specific access to the data of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) – has won the European “Heritage in Motion Award” 2016...