Digitisation of historical newspapers of the German speaking countries: The North German key medium Hamburger Fremdenblatt 1863 – 1945

在最初的40年里，《汉堡快报》成为汉堡发行量最大的日报，并被证明是广受关注的报纸之一。每周一次的英语和西班牙语版本也使它在国外广为人知。魏玛共和国末期，《法兰克福汇报》的发行量约为150.000份，是德国最流行的报纸之一，具有开创性和重要的舆论领袖地位，尤其是对德国北部而言。1911年，凹版印刷补充品是一项创新功能，从1912年起每天都增加。将《汉堡快报》数字化，并生成机器可读的全文，这是多年来政治和文化史学家迫切需要的。因此，汉堡大报的类型谱将在网上完成，从各种资产阶级自由派和保守派报纸到左翼和右翼政党的报纸。比较历史研究将得到显著便利，并将提供大量新的全文和图片档案。在这个项目中，大约有450.000页报纸将被数字化和OCR化为全文。它们将通过诸如北德GVK和Zeitschiff tendatenbank(ZDB)等联盟目录和系列丛书联合目录提供，并将通过OAI-PMH接口在ZVDD、德国数字图书馆(DDB)和欧洲图书馆以及当地报纸门户网站中提供。

During its first four decades the Hamburger Fremdenblatt emerged as the daily newspaper in Hamburg with the highest circulation, and it proved to be one of the papers widely taken notice of. Weekly English and Spanish editions made it also well-known abroad. At the end of the Weimar Republic the Fremdenblatt had a circulation of about 150.000 copies and was one of the prevalent German newspapers, seminal and important as an opionon-leader especially for Northern Germany. In 1911 a rotogravure supplement was an innovative feature, which was added daily from 1912 onwards. Digitising the Hamburger Fremdenblatt and generating machine-readable full text has been urgently required by political as well as cultural historians for many years now.Thus, the typological spectrum of big Hamburg newspapers will be completed online, reaching from various bourgeois-liberal and conservative papers to those of leftist and rightist political parties. Comparative historical research will be markedly facilitated, and an extensive new full text and picture archive will be made available. Roughly 450.000 newspaper pages are to be digitised and OCRed to full text in this project. They will be accessible via union catalogues such as the North German GVK and the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB), the union catalogue of serials, and they are to be provided – via an OAI-PMH interface – in ZVDD, in the German Digital Library (DDB) and Europeana as well as in the local newspaper portal.