Digital source collection on the history of technology: 16th and 17th century prints from the German-speaking area

Current statusCollection History of Technology

Description Within the framework of the DFG funding programme "Kulturelle Überlieferung - Aktionslinie Digitalisierung der in nationalen Verzeichnissen nachgewiesenen Drucke - VD16/VD17", the SLUB processed around 1,300 titles of technical literature from the 16th and 17th centuries as source material on the history of technology . The aim of the project was the digitisation, in-depth subject indexing and provision of the volumes, which contain around 262,000 pages. The digital sources are indexed in the SLUB catalogue and linked to the full text presentation of the prints. In addition, the collection is listed in the Central Index of Digitised Prints (ZVDD). As a result, the prints digitised within the framework of the project are comportably readable and searchable in all relevant reference systems. Particular importance is attached to the close interlocking and factual indexing of image and text documents. In the Deutsche Fotothek, about 9,000 image sources contained in these prints have been factually indexed.

Duration 2007-2008

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