VD 17: Digitization for the Bibliography of Books Printed in German Speaking Countries from 1601 to 1700 (VD17)

• Applicant: Dr. Anne Lipp, since 12/2022
• Subject Area: Early Modern History
• Term: from 2015 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 271674631

This project aims at the digitization of 9,000 prints for the ¿Bibliography of Books Printed in German Speaking Countries from 1601 to 1700 (VD17)¿ within the next six years. In total 1.2 million pages will be digitized and made accessible online, 585,000 pages are to be completed within the first three years. The project is a substantial contribution to the visualization of Germany¿s cultural heritage in the internet. Because of Leipzig¿s significance as the main centre of German bookprinting in the 17th cen-tury this project is of paramount importance for the reconstruction of 17th century printing history.The digitized prints will be presented via the VD17 database, the union catalogue of the Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund, the local OPAC and the local catalogue HisBest, as well as via the overarching catalogues WorldCat and Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog. PURLs and digital images will be made accessible via an OAI interface and can thus be displayed in the Deutsche Digitale Biblio-thek and the Europeana.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider, until 12/2022