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Joint management of the German Digital Library is complete
As of February 2020, Gerke Dunkhase will be taking over the management of the fields of technology, development and service at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. He succeeds Dr. Peter...
All the best for 2020!
We would like to thank all of our partners, friends and supporters as well as all of our colleagues for the good cooperation over the past year! Special thanks to all of you, from many...
Change at the top of the German Digital Library
Dr. Julia Spohr is to take over the leadership of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) starting from 02 January 2020. She is succeeding Frank Frischmuth, former...
To the south! Coding da Vinci Kick-Off in Munich
In this year, our Culture Hackathon Coding da Vinci starts in the south of Germany for the first time: 30 cultural institutions from Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg provide their data...
The DDB mourns for Uwe Müller
Last Monday, we were informed about the sudden death of our managing director, Uwe Müller. We are bewildered, perplexed and speechless.
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...
BGH hears “legal dispute concerning framing” between Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst and Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
On Thursday, the 21st February 2019, the Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe (Federal Court of Justice) (BGH) will hear the legal dispute between the Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst (VG...
7th Library Congress Leipzig 2019: »Changing Libraries«: Save the Date!
For the 7th time the Library Congress is taking place in Leipzig, this year from 18th – 21st March 2019, and will be welcoming The Netherlands as the featured country, whose innovative...
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...
An Eventful Year – Our Christmas Greetings 2018
2018 was a very eventful year for the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, in which we were able to achieve some special things – not least thanks to you!
The Digital Horizon 04: "The Digital German Women’s Archive: A Commemoration of the Women’s and Lesbian Movements"
In a series of guest contributions, we will present exciting topics and projects of data and cooperation partners of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek in the future: be it a new way of...
Award Ceremony Cultural Hackathon „Coding Da Vinci“ in the Mainz State Museum
On December 1st, the winners of the Cultural Hackathon “Coding Da Vinci Rhein-Main” ("Coding Da Vinci Rhine-Main") were determined in Mainz. With a festive award ceremony in the...
Happy Birthday Europeana – more than just a big sister
In November 2008 it went online for the first time – the European digital library “Europeana”, launched by six European Heads of State and Government and the President of the Commission...
A newspaper portal for Germany: DDB is establishing another special offering
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) (German Digital Library) brings together objects from cultural and knowledge institutions, links them with one another and makes them accessible...
The Digital Horizon 03: "The Virtual Migration Museum – A Journey through Time and Space"
In future we will be presenting exciting topics and projects from data partners and cooperation partners of the German Digital Library in a series of guest articles: whether it is a new...
“Shaping Access! More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage” in the European Year of Cultural Heritage – a Conference review
These two conference days on 25 and 26 October 2018 are all about the commonalities, but also about the challenges and problems that the digitisation of the cultural heritage of an...
We are the DDB: Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication
The Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication is unique in Germany with its collections. These document the historic development of the postal and telecommunication service with its...
We are the DDB: Gleimhaus - Museum of the German Enlightenment
The Gleimhaus is one of the oldest German literary museums, established in 1862 in the former residential building of the poet and collector Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719-1803) at...
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...
Coding da Vinci Rhein-Main: Save the Date!
The upcoming Culture Hackathon in Mainz will focus on the Rhein-Main-Region (Rhine-Main area) with the college and university cities of Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt, Frankfurt/Main, Gießen...