The ''Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek'' ("German Digital Library") or DDB is a
virtual library in the
German language
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is als ...
which networks 30,000 cultural and research institutions and aims to make them freely accessible to the public using a common platform. A beta version of the portal with, according to its own information, about 5.6 million objects, went online on 28 November 2012. The first full version was launched on 31 March 2014. The aim is to integrate the DDB into
Europeana
Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe. It includes records of over 50 million cultural and scientific artefacts, brought togethe ...
at the European level.
[Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien: ]
Literature
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External links
Website der Deutschen Digitalen BibliothekDeutsche Digitale Bibliothek bei Twitterun
FacebookDokumentation des API der Deutschen Digitalen BibliothekPortal für Datenpartner der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek* Mirko Smiljanic:
Per Mausklick zum nationalen Kulturerbe. Die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek geht ans Netz' In: Deutschlandfunk (DLF). Hintergrund Politik. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
Homepage des Archivportals-D der spartenspezifische Zugang zu Archivdaten der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek.
References
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German digital libraries
Publications established in 2012