Digitization

Website of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Digital Library; © Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald

Looking at the Bigger Picture: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Digital Library

Since 2010, libraries, archives and museums in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have been involved in a joint pilot project, laying the foundations for a digital library.More ...
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More Than Just a Dream: The German Digital Library

The German Digital Library, the project of the century that is to make Germany’s cultural heritage freely accessible to everyone, is gradually taking concrete shape.More ...
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“A Strategy Is Needed for the Digitization Process.” Interview with Ute Schwens

Starting 2012, the German Digital Library is to be filled with content. This is one of the reasons why Germany needs a digitization strategy, explains Ute Schwens.More ...
Mobile iPad services of the BSB; © Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Parsifal on Smartphone – Libraries and the Mobile Internet

Smartpohnes and tablet PCs are rapidly conquering ever new user groups. The Bavarian State Library in Munich has responded to this in various ways.More ...
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DigiZeitschriften – the German Digital Periodical Archive

More than three million pages of academic literature from German specialist periodicals are available to users at research institutions all over the world in the DigiZeitschriften online archive.More ...
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The Ongoing Enhancement of the “E-Library”

Academic libraries in Germany are continuously expanding their range of digital material – and are now able to provide new internet-based services in order to meet the ever growing demands of research and study. The library of the future is without doubt going to be one that is in a constant state of flux.More ...
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In Pursuit of Non-Material Works – The Expanded Collection Tasks of the German National Library

Seit Mitte 2006 gehört das Sammeln von Netzpublikationen zum Auftrag der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Viele Fragen sind dabei allerdings noch offen.More ...
Grazer book table in the Heidelberg University Library Digitalization Center; © Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Not A Hidden Treasure: The Heidelberg Bibliotheca Palatina Is Online

With the online version of the Heidelberg Bibliotheca Palatina, one of the finest collections of German manuscripts has now been fully digitalized and made easily accessible on the Internet.More ...
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Europeana.eu: Europe’s Cultural Online Memory

Mona Lisa’s smile, Beethoven’s Ninth, Shakespeare’s sonnets: at Europeana.eu, digitized cultural treasures from Europe’s libraries, archives and museums are just a mouse click away. In 2009, the portal entered its second phase.More ...
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The Bavarian State Library' books are being digitalised by Google

The Bavarian State Library is making more than a million of its books available to Google for digitalisation. We spoke to Dr. Klaus Ceynowa, Deputy Director General of the State Library, about this unique form of cooperation in Germany.More ...
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kulturerbe-digital.de: The Information Portal for Digitisation Projects

Anyone who wants to find out about digitisation projects that are being carried out in German libraries, archives and museums, as well as in the field of monument conservation, is in just the right place at kulturerbe-digital.de.More ...
Screenshot zur Digitalisierung des Codex Sinaiticus; Copyright: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig

“Today’s Knowledge Societies Are Not Given To Nostalgia”

The opportunities and limits for libraries on the internet – Professor Dr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Executive Director of the University Library of Leipzig, expounds on the role libraries are going to play in the electronic age.More ...
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1.0, 2.0, 3.0: The Evolution of the Library Catalogue in the Internet and the Example of “beluga”

The electronic successor of the card catalogue is caught up in a rapid development.More ...
Visualisierung einer 3-D Simulation des kosmischen Strahlungstransportes von ionisiertem Wasserstoff in der Umgebung eines Quasars (rot, unten mitte). Die Nutzung des Grid ermöglichte eine effiziente Rechnung von 25 parallelen Szenarien; Copyright: Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam

Grid: The Internet of the Future?

Grid computing is opening up new research opportunities for academics. Dr Heike Neuroth, who coordinates the TextGrid project at the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), explains how it works.More ...
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ScanRobots for Mass Digitisation – even for Delicate Books

Dr. Markus Brantl, who runs the Munich Digitisation Centre (Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum), explains in this interview how modern mass digitisation works in the Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; BSB).More ...
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Humanities Platform with Potential: perspectivia.net

The portal Perspectivia.net is intended to foster and intensify scholarly communication – across all borders.More ...
Digitalization in Landesarchiv Berlin; Copyright: Landesarchiv Berlin

„Digitization is not a Long-Term Solution“

The euphoria that opportunities in the field of digitization generate is great. However, Dr. Martin Luchterhandt, senior archives councillor at the National Archives Berlin warns about considering digitization to be a universal remedy.More ...
Exterior view, Bavarian State Library, Munich; Copyright: Verena Hütter

“Parzival” as an App – The Bavarian State Library in Munich

The Bavarian State Library houses precious manuscripts and incunabula from all over the world. Scanning robots assist in the library’s project of digitising its enormous collections.More ...
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GetInfo: Single Source of Specialist Technical and Scientific Information

GetInfo provides scientists, developers and students in technical and scientific disciplines with a convenient research tool that allows high quality information to be located quickly.More ...
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eBooks On Demand: The Digital Library Becomes Reality

That books from the holdings of the great traditional libraries in Europe can be accessed from any computer in the world is a long-cherished vision. With the internet service eBooks on Demand this vision is now becoming reality.More ...
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Model of success: the Electronic Journals Library EZB is constantly growing

More than ten years ago a service for libraries and research institutes was launched at the Regensburg University Library which has attracted increasing numbers of users and which is now one of the largest databases for electronic journals in the world.More ...
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Content Repositories Help Libraries Take the Step onto the Net

The majority of libraries and archives present their digital material on the internet nowadays. Repositories allow smaller establishments to take this step as well – with a relatively low outlay. By Dagmar GiersbergMore ...

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