Digitization of microforms from analog archival material of the Saxon State Archives

• Applicant: Dr. Andrea Wettmann
• Subject Area: Early Modern History ; Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2018 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 392201375

The project encompasses the digitization of about seven million exposures from microforms stemming from holdings of the departments Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden and Bergarchiv Freiberg. These are among the most important and frequently used record groups of the Saxon State Archives. Covering the period from the 15th to the 20th century, they are fundamental to research on political, administrative, economic and military history, be it in the context of Saxony or Germany as a whole. The planned measures are a continuation of the digitization campaign initiated by the DFG to digitize archival sources in 2012. Aim of the project is the online publication of the digitized documents on the website of the Saxon State Archives (www.archiv.sachsen.de) and furthermore accessibility via the national Archivportal-D (www.archivportal-d.de), making this archival material better available for scientific and non-scientific users.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)