Digital Libraries Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

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Digital Libraries Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

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Digital Libraries

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG)

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What is the DFG?

DFG stands for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

main task: to promote academic research at universities and other public institutes

one of its projects: retrospective digitalization of libraries

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Digital libraries of the DFG

collection of 93 digital libraries mostly digitalization of academic libraries resources are: handwritings, pictures,

musical notes, magazines, etc. from the early Middle Ages till the early 19th century

scanned pages available for everyone on the internet some pages also offer resources in a pdf

format

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Problematics

no standardised layout and search system: every website has its own search tools

no possibility of downloadingprinting of the document only site

after sitequality of the scanned pages