Krünitz Encyclopaedia

As part of a digitalisation project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Trier University Library is compiling an electronic full-text version of Johann Georg Krünitz’ Economic Encyclopaedia, which was published between 1773 and 1858 in 242 volumes.
It is using DDC to classify all the lemmas and images in this work, which encompasses more than 140,000 pages. This facilitates the development of a subject-based structure and an overview of related content that was impossible in the printed edition because of its volume and the lengthy period over which it was published.
In 2005, Trier University Library began cataloguing another historic technical work (Das Buch der Erfindungen, Gewerbe und Industrien [The Book of Inventions, Commerce and Industry], Leipzig 1896–1901) with the aid of DDC and is using Dewey classification in the development of an information portal on the history of encyclopaedic reference works. (Link to project page)

Contact: seifert@uni-trier.de