Project description

Historical newspapers are an important resource for academic research in various disciplines – particularly in Germany, where the newspaper sector is and always has been particularly diverse and prolific. The large-scale digitisation, full-text cataloguing and provision of online access to historical newspapers is an important desideratum. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has set up funding programmes in 2018 and 2019 to support this work.

The “Deutsche Zeitungsportal” went online in October 2021.

During the first phase of development, it will offer the following functions:

• a full-text search of the digitised newspaper collection
• browsing possibilities through calendar, places and newspaper titles
• a display component (viewer) integrated into the portal environment,
• the possibility of inserting permanent links to the individual editions in the portal, thus facilitating citation

Project framework

Funding body

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Partners

• German National Library/Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
• FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
• Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Duration

1 January 2019 to 31 July 2025

Contact

Lisa Landes
l.landes@dnb.de