Digitization projects
Since 2008, the Digitization Center (DIZ) handles the digitization and presentation of the cultural heritage preserved by ULB Darmstatdt.
List of current and completed projects
- 3 historic cadastral plan drafts from the Archive of Bauamt Heusenstamm
- Around 50 reproductions dedicated for the inhouse-exhibition “Geheimnis-Herrschaft-Wissen”
- 47 excerpts from german medieval manuscripts on behalf of the Berliner Repertoriumdatabase project
- Circa 700 reproductions of Otto Bartnings literally estate for the exhibition “Otto Bartning. Architekt einer sozialen Moderne”
- Digitzation and reworking “Historical catalogue of music” (including losses in World War II)
- Stage 2 for Hessian regional newspapers in World War I (covers 1918)
- Digitzation of Pessach Haggada
- Digitization of Flora Graeca
- Crowdsourcing georeferenced maps and linking them into Old maps Online
- Hortus Sempervirens, 77 vols published around 1800 – historical text and reference book on plants, with delicate colored illustrations.
- Fotos of covers, bindings etc. for the 20th annual meeting of AEB 2015 in Darmstadt
- Migrated platform for catalogue enrichment (scanned TOCs)
- Digitization of regional painters' sketchbooks of 19th century for the Hessian State Museum
- „Vorlegeblätter Lehmann“: delicately drawn cards (about 1800) for teaching geografic modeling
- Hessian regional newspapers in World War I, in cooperation with HEBIS (information and service union of academic libraries in Hesse)
- Collection of photos by Karl Heil: historical photos of Darmstadt in early 20th century
- Digitization for exhibitions and documentations in and outside ULB, e.g. on behalf of exhibitions on Georg Büchner or Carl Weyprecht, autumn 2013).
- Digitization and presentation of medieval mancuscripts in our Digital Collections – Manuscripts
- Digitization of Glass-slides or class-registers held by the archive of TU Darmstadt
- Digitization of oversized maps and plans from the stocks of our map collection
- Digitization of historic regional newspapers
- Digitization of the works of Christoph Graupner
- Historic Library catalogues from ULB Darmstadt
- Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
- Approximately 10.000 stamps on the covers of historical books are made available in the book cover database (Einbanddatenbank
- Digitization and indexing of about 900 incunabula in our Digital Collections – Incunabula
- Kindly supported by Ehrenamt für Darmstadt e.V.:
- Digitization of letters from the inheritance of Hermann and Alexander Graf Keyserling
- Digitization and indexing of historical Address books 1819 – 1935
- In cooperation with institutions and departments of TU Darmstadt
- Indexing, digitization and presentation of the documented archive of AStA (Students' Union) of TU Darmstadt
- Institute Elektromechanische Konstruktion is using our infrastructure for photos of prototypes and designs
- We are consulting the chair of Thermische Verfahrenstechnik in digitizing older seminar papers, midterms and thesis including publication in TUprints.
- Scanning the inheritance of Otto Bartning in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture and Otto-Bartning-AG
- Scanning of more than 300 books of modern crime stories for subsequent character recognition (OCR) and automated linguistic analysis on behalf of the research program “Eigenlogik der Städte”.
- In the same research program, we are helping in scanning and OCR of approx. 1000 newspaper articles (Ruhrnachrichten).
- Scanning and OCR of the Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch and its predecessing journal Photorin for subsequent publication in TUprints.
- Digitization of historical registers and class-books in cooperation with the archive of TU Darmstadt.
- In cooperation with external partners:
- Scanning the correspondence between Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779-1861) and Johann Heinrich Christian Bang (1774-1851) – on behalf of the Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft der TU Darmstadt and UB Marburg.
- Virtuelle Klosterbibliothek Lorsch (Bibliotheca Laureshamensis digital) – virtual re-collection of the ancient monastic library at Lorsch.
- Facsimiles and Reprints, e.g. of the Elsässer Historienbibel or the so-called “Schatzbehalter” on behalf of Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG).
- Digitization and presentation of historical volumes of the Wormser Zeitung in cooperation with Stadtarchiv Worms.
Get an overview of the results of most of our digitization projects in our Digital Collections (Digitale Sammlungen Darmstadt).