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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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...