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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...
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 –...
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...
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.
We are the DDB: The Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
The Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (University Library of Heidelberg) is the central library in the library system of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. The central library...
We are the DDB: The Berlin Gallery State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture
The Berlinische Galerie is one of the newest museums of the capital city and collects artwork that was created in Berlin between 1870 and today – with a local focus and an international...
The mysterious disappearance of the Vikings from Greenland
Theories on why the Vikings disappeared from Greenland are abundant: they range from epidemics to shortages of supply, from homesickness to climate changes. For a long time, it was...