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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The 2007 Frankfurt book fair heralded the launch of "Libreka –the full-text search engine". The project that first got off the ground at the beginning of 2005 under the name of "full-text online search" can now be accessed by book-lovers everywhere. Not by a long way however has it achieved the goals it has set itself.More ...
Europe and the Digitisation of Literature - Some months ago, the President of France's Bibliothèque Nationale launched a broadside against the major digitisation projects being planned by several search engine operators.More ...
