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Endlich wieder: Die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek auf der Leipziger Buchmesse 2023
Es ist soweit: Nach drei Jahren Pandemie-Pause findet die Leipziger Buchmesse 2023 wieder statt – Kennenlernen, Treffen, Austauschen – in ganz echt!
A Touch of Star Trek, Part II: Artificial Intelligences in Dialogue
Once it was clear that we would publish our interview with ChatGPT, we needed visual material. What could be more obvious, so the thought went, than commissioning an AI for the...
A Touch of Star Trek. Part I: In Dialogue with the AI ChatGPT about Open Cultural Data
Do you like Star Trek? In the series "The Next Generation," the crew members exchange dialogue with the computer of the USS Enterprise. This is similar to how communication with ChatGPT...
DDBspotlight: 105 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...
We are the DDB: MONAliesA - Feminist Library and Archive
MONAliesA was founded in the years of the upheaval 1989/90 in Leipzig. Since then it has been used as a library, meeting place, archive and venue for literary and political education...
We are the DDB: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore in Dresden
The Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde (ISGV) was founded in 1997 by a resolution of the Sächsischen Landtags (Saxon State Parliament). As a research institute...
We are the DDB: Die Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim
The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim is an internationally operating museum complex, an outstanding exhibition location and an established research centre. Its origins date back...
Virtual kick-off meeting of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek's Fachstelle Denkmalpflege
At a virtual kick-off meeting, we would like to present the work of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and the Department of Monument Preservation and enable participants to get to know...
Theme portal Compensation: Three-day workshop in Yad Vashem
From 8 – 10 November 2022, representatives of the team for the development of the topic portal "Compensation for National Socialist Injustice" were guests at the Yad Vashem Memorial and...
We are the DDB: Kunstbibliothek (Art Library), State Museums of Berlin
The Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin is an art and visual sciences institute with a history going back more than 150 years. Today it includes one of the largest...
Many thanks: 2022
Our review a year ago was very special: neither did anyone know yet how the global pandemic situation would develop, nor did anyone know when normal everyday work, office and public...
We are the DDB: The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
Das Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum CIL wurde 1853 auf Initiative des Historikers, Juristen und späteren Literaturnobelpreisträgers Theodor Mommsen an der Preußischen Akademie der...
One Year Deutsches Zeitungsportal: Over One Million Editions Available
On 28 October 2022, the Deutsches Zeitungsportal celebrated its first birthday. On 1 December, the threshold of one million available newspaper editions was exceeded.
10 Years German Digital Library
Ten years ago, on 28 November 2012, the first beta version of the German Digital Library was presented. A lot has happened since then and we would like to take this anniversary as an...
We are the DDB: The German Mining Museum Bochum
The Deutsche Bergbau-Museum Bochum – founded in 1930 – is one of eight research museums of the Leibniz Association. The history of the extraction, processing and use of geographic...
"The die is cast." History and stories of a play device and symbol
The die is a symbol of chance, luck or finality. Even in antiquity, the die and the immutability of its throwing results were familiar symbols: Julius Caesar coined the phrase "The die...
We are the DDB: Das Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung
The Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung is a documentation centre and research institute with an extensive and now unique collection on the history of women's movements and the everyday...
It could be a start - nostalgia and the mood for change in Berlin
The energy and enthusiasm with which the Coding da Vinci community pursues its goal of disseminating and using open cultural data in institutions and civil society was once again...
Relaunch DDBpro: The portal for data partners of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) in a new design
Vor beinahe sieben Jahren, im November 2015, hat die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek ihr Portal für Datenpartner DDBpro online gestellt. Die Idee dahinter? Mit dem stetigen Zuwachs der...
Mainz: The Roman Provincial Capital
The legacy of the Romans is traceable in few German cities as well as it is in Mainz, what the Romans called Mogontiacum. Even the narrow streets remind us strongly of the strictly...