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

汉堡是德语区最重要的报业中心之一，而且还是德国劳工运动的活跃中心。因此，从汉堡左翼政党成立之初就为他们的媒体创建数字渠道似乎迫在眉睫。这为从右翼社会民主党到以地区报纸为中心的魏玛共和国共产党的内部分化提供了洞察力和比较研究。《汉堡回声报》和它的三个社会民主前辈《汉堡人民报》（最初是《红旗报》）、《北德意志报》和《人民日报》（r Harburg, Wilhelmsburg and Umgegend）全面代表了左翼政党的范围。从1928年起，他们在政治光谱的另一端面对国家社会主义媒体。《汉堡日报》和它的两个前身是纳粹党的报纸，是这个项目的一部分，目的是展示20世纪上半叶汉堡地区的全面政治鼓动和宣传。在汉堡出版的一些自由派和全国性保守派报纸已经数字化。所以它们代表了那个时期政治格局的方方面面。在此计划中，约315,000份报纸版面将透过OCR数码化，并转换为机器可读的文字。他们将通过联合目录，如北德GVK和Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)，联合系列目录访问，并将通过OAI-PMH接口在ZVDD，德国数字图书馆（DDB）和欧洲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.