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German Digital Library Information provision

Service Description

The German Digital Library (DDB) opens up free access via the Internet to Germany's cultural and scientific heritage, i.e. to millions of books, archival materials, pictures, sculptures, pieces of music and other audio documents, films and sheet music.

As a cultural and scientific institution in Germany, you can supply data to the DDB or, as a curator, present the objects in the context of an exhibition theme .

To make digitized content available, you must register on the DDB website. Registration is free of charge.

As a central national portal, the DDB is intended to network the digital offerings of all German cultural and scientific institutions in the future. So far, more than 4,000 institutions have registered, and around 400 institutions are already supplying data.

Digitization is a process that is scheduled to take years. The portal's functions are being continuously expanded.

The DDB is jointly financed by the federal and state governments on the basis of the Administration and Finance Agreement of December 2009.

Process flow

If you want to publish content to the German Digital Library,

  • you must first register your institution on the DDBpro portal.
  • The DDB service center will check your registration.
  • Your institution appears on the culture and science map.
  • Now you contact the service center.
  • A cooperation agreement is concluded between the DDB and your institution.
  • The DDB sends you a link to an online questionnaire and clarifies questions about data formats and copyright.
  • The DDB loads your data into the test system.
  • You check the view of the content, and only then is the data imported into the DDB. The files are published under Creative Commons license.
  • If you wish, the DDB will also forward your data to Europeana forwarded.

You also have the option to use the DDB's holdings in external applications (such as websites or mobile apps), as long as they are not protected by copyright. This allows you to develop a variety of applications and display the DDB's data according to your own wishes.

The integration is done via the Application Programming Interface (API), a programming interface.

The API is open to anyone.

Requirements

If you want to publish content in the DDB:

  • you should be the author of the documents yourself or
  • assure the German Digital Library that you are authorized to post the content to the DDB holdings, including release to third parties, or that the contributed content is rights-free (in the public domain).
  • The data for the DDB must be in a supported metadata format.

Which documents are required?

none

What are the fees?

none

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

none

Processing duration

The processing time depends on the quality of the supplied data and the amount of data.

Legal basis

Appeal

  • Forms: no, but cooperation agreement
  • Online procedure possible: yes
  • Written form required: yes (cooperation agreement)
  • Personal appearance required: no

Author

The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.

Technically approved by

The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Professionally released on

18.01.2019

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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