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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...
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...
Knowledge without a future? The legal framework of digital long-term archiving of internet publications - an article by Eric W. Steinhauer
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 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...
Delivery of Internet Publications by the Quote Contributor. Securing the Stability of Online Sources in Science - An article by Jan Schallaböck
The first publication of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, “A Future for the Past – Cultural Heritage in a Digital World” appeared in March of 2015.
Standardisation and cultural heritage: Nothing is possible without the human race - An article by Felix Sasaki
The first publication of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, “A Future for the Past – Cultural Heritage in a Digital World” appeared in March of 2015.
Metadata: Making Cultural Heritage Accessible and Visible – An Interview
The complex world of metadata is one of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek’s central fields of work and an area of work in which the processes and developments are virtually “invisible”...