Projects

2022

DisKo: Establishing a diversity corpus (DisKo) as the foundation for algorithmic text analyses: Mareike Schumacher (TU Darmstadt) and Marie Flüh (University of Hamburg) are creating a diverse reference corpus in order to extract a training corpus which can then be annotated and subsequently used for the machine-learning of their gender classifier. The German National Library is supporting the project by digitising the required literature, through OCR recognition and by creating the corpus.
More information about the project: https://msternchenw.de/diversitaets-korpus/

The DNB catalogue as data-source and research object of digital historical press research: in this project, Erik Koenen (University of Bremen – ZeMKI) is researching the potential of the digital DNB catalogue as a research object in the context of newspapers. The German National Library is advising on the history of newspaper-collecting and its own collections of this medium, and is also providing the project with technical support.

FOREXSCIFI - Foresight Extraction from Science Fiction Literature: Jan Oliver Schwarz (TH Ingolstadt), Christoph Bläsi (Univesity of Mainz) and Markus May (LMU München) are analysing science-fiction literature in order to generate statements on potential future developments in technology, ecology, economics, food production, society and communication as well as their interdependencies. To this end, the German National Library is creating a corpus, digitising a selection of literature and providing access to its infrastructure.

2021

Secret best-sellers: Christine Haug (LMU Munich) researches the history of German dime novel from its beginnings to the mid-20th century. The German National Library is supporting this project by digitising dime novels and providing access to it via the own infrastructure.

Leipzig as the centre of the global tobacco and fur trade between the two world wars: On the basis of academic journals, Werner Scheltjens (University of Bamberg) analyses the role of Leipzig as the centre of the international tobacco and fur trade in the time between the two world wars. The German National Library is supporting this project by digitising serial publications and providing access to these via the own infrastructure.

Mapping Translated German Fiction with the German National Library Catalogue: Lisa Maria Teichmann (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) is conducting quantitative analyses of translations of German fiction. The German National Library is supporting this project by providing access to bibliographic metadata and giving advice on how to analyse it.

2020

Fascism in the eyes of the (inter)national public: Lutz Klinkhammer, Jörg Hörnschemeyer (both from the German Historical Institute in Rome) and Jan Rohden (Max Weber Foundation) are investigating the perception and portrayal of Fascism and National Socialism in the press and publishing landscape of 1933–1945. The German National Library is providing full copies of the GND, bibliographic data, metadata and full texts from the Exile Press for this purpose.

Freedom of expression and hate speech as reflected in the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG): Jens Pohlmann (University of Bremen) is investigating and comparing statements on matters of network policy found in IT blogs and websites. We are providing a comparative e-paper corpus consisting of 10 daily newspapers on our infrastructure for analytical purposes.

“Fremdes in Kochbüchern” (Otherness in cookery books): Christoph Bläsi (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) and Edith Blaschitz (Danube University Krems) are researching the processes involved when “foreign” foods are assimilated into German-language cookery books. For this, the DNB is providing a corpus of approx. 6,000 authentic digital cookery books on its own infrastructure for automatic analysis. To the video

Pseudonyms in literature: Jörg Lehmann (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen) is using 23,000 GND records provided by the DNB to investigate the motives and goals of authors who write literary works under pseudonyms.

2018

Macroanalytical study of dime novels: Fotis Jannidis, Leonard Konle (both from the Julius- Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg) and Peter Leinen (German National Library) are conducting quantitative analyses of so-called dime novels and comparing them with classical literature. We are placing our infrastructure and a corpus of approx. 40,000 objects at their disposal for the purpose of performing automated analyses.