Cultural Heritage Online. Digitization Projects at Heidelberg

Cultural Heritage Online
Digitization Projects at
Heidelberg University Library
Berlin, 13th June 2013
Alexandra Büttner
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Heidelberg University Library
Special Subject Collection
“Medieval and Modern Art
History up to 1945 and Art Studies”
• 500.000 monographs
• 1.500 art journals subscriptions
• online: 6.700 volumes with 1.2
million pages
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Digitized Literature on the
Theory and History of Art
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Illustrated Art- and Satirical
Journals of the 19th and Early
20th Century
• 19 art and satire magazines dating from
the 19th century to the early 20th century
• 1.700 digitized journals with around
560.000 images
• over 25.000 articles catalogued
• supported by
German Research Foundation (DFG)
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Illustrated Art- and Satirical
Journals of the 19th and Early
20th Century
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Digitization in Heidelberg
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Institut / Thema / Verantwortliche(r) / Position
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Searching Art and Satire
Journals
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Creative Commons Licence
cc-BY-NC-SA
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HeidICON
Image Database
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German Sales 1930-1945
• Art Library of the National Museum,
Berlin
• Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
• Heidelberg University Library
• supported by the ”Bilateral Digital
Humanities Programme”:
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German Research Foundation (DFG)
National Endowment for the
Humanities
as well as the VolkswagenStiftung
November 2010 – February 2013
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German Sales 1930-1945
Auction catalogues that recorded
art transactions in the period
between 1930 until 1945 in
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Germany
Austria
Switzerland
and countries occupied by
Germany during World War II
• estimated about 2.400
• today: 3.100 sales catalogues
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German Sales 1930-1945
(1) locating the material
(2) digitizing
(3) making selected and single object searchable in a database
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Searching Auction Catalogues
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New Project
“Art – Auctions – Provenances. The German Art Trade as
Reflected in Auction Catalogues from 1901 to 1929”
• location and digitization of all German, Austrian and Swiss
sales catalogues
• estimated 6.000 auction catalogues
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Bibliotheca Laureshamensis –
digital
UNESCO-World Heritage
Site Abbey Lorsch
• 330 medieval manuscripts
• 70 libraries in 14 countries
• supported by the
Verwaltung der Staatlichen
Schlösser und Gärten Hessen
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Bamberg, State Library
„Lorsch Pharmacopoeia“
Msc. Med. 1
UNESCO – Memory of
the World Register
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Terms of Use
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Mobile Version
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Digitization in Rome
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Digitization in Rome
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Lorsch Search - Database
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Lorsch Search - Database
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Bibliotheca Palatina – digital
• 2050 Palatini latini
manuscripts in the Biblioteca
Apostolica Vaticana
• supported by
Manfred Lautenschläger
Stiftung
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Networking
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Thank you!
Heidelberg University Library
Special Subject Collection Art History
Alexandra Büttner
buettner_alexandra@ub.uni-heidelberg.de
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