Digitisation of historical newspapers of the German speaking countries: Newspapers of the labour movement 1875 – 1933 and of the National Socialist Party 1928 – 1945 in Hamburg and Harburg

汉堡是德语国家最重要的报业中心之一，也是德国劳工运动的活跃中心点。因此，似乎迫切需要从一开始就为汉堡左翼政党的新闻界提供数字访问。这提供了洞察力，并使比较研究其内部分化从右翼社会民主党的魏玛共和国共产党集中在区域报纸。《汉堡回声报》和它的三个社会民主党前身《汉堡人民报》--最初是《红色先锋报》、《北德意志报》和《哈尔堡、威廉斯堡和人民报》--全面代表了左翼政党的范围。从1928年起，它们面对的是政治光谱另一端的国家社会主义报纸。《汉堡日报》及其两个前身作为纳粹党的报纸是这个项目的一部分，目的是展示世纪上半叶汉堡地区的政治鼓动和宣传。在汉堡出版的几份自由派和国家保守派报纸已经数字化。所以它们代表了那个时期政治景观的各个方面。在这个项目中，大约315000份报纸页面将被数字化，并通过OCR转换为机器可读的文本。它们将通过联合目录，如北德GVK和Zeitschriftendatenbank（ZDB），连续出版物的联合目录进行访问，并通过OAI-PMH接口在ZVDD，德国数字图书馆（DDB）和Europeana以及当地报纸门户网站上提供。

Hamburg was one of the most important centres of the newspaper business in the German speaking countries and, furthermore, a vibrant central point of the German labour movement. Therefore it seems urgent to create digital access to the press of Hamburg’s leftist parties from their very beginnings. This provides insight and enables comparative research into their internal differentiation from right-wing social democrats to the communist party of the Weimar Republic focused on regional newspapers. The Hamburger Echo and its three social democratic predecessors the Hamburger Volkszeitung – in the beginning: Rote Fahne –, the Norddeutsche Zeitung and the Volksblatt für Harburg, Wilhelmsburg und Umgegend comprehensively represent the range of leftist parties.From 1928 onwards they faced the national socialist press at the other end of the political spectrum. The Hamburger Tageblatt and its two antecessors as papers of the NSDAP are part of this project in order to present the full range of political agitation and propaganda in the Hamburg area during the first half of the 20th century. Several liberal and national conservative newspapers published in Hamburg have already been digitised. So they altogether represent all facets of its political landscape of that period. About 315.000 newspaper pages are to be digitised and transformed to machine readable text via OCR 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.