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

在最初的四十年里，《汉堡日报》成为汉堡发行量最高的日报，也是广受关注的报纸之一。每周的英文版和西班牙文版也使其在国外享有盛誉。在魏玛共和国末期，《Fremdenblatt》的发行量约为15万份，是德国最流行的报纸之一，尤其是对德国的北方来说，它是一份具有开创性和重要意义的舆论领袖。1911年，凹版印刷补充是一个创新的功能，这是每天增加从1912年起。多年来，政治和文化历史学家一直迫切需要将《汉堡自由报》数字化并生成机器可读的全文。因此，汉堡各大报纸的类型学范围将在网上完成，从各种保守派和自由派报纸到左翼和右翼政党的报纸。比较历史研究将得到明显的促进，并将提供一个广泛的新的全文和图片档案。大约450.000报纸页将被数字化，并在这个项目中OCRed全文。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。

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.