Digitisation and Indexing of Printed Material Published in the 18th Century in the German-Speaking Areas (VD 18)

合作项目“德语地区出版的18世纪印刷材料的数字化和索引（VD 18）”旨在创建18世纪德国国家书目的回顾性。该项目索引了1701年至1800年间印刷的德国材料，并为每个项目添加了唯一的vd18标识符。此外，印刷材料将在项目中数字化，并将在互联网上免费提供。添加文档结构的详细元数据将有助于在数字文档中导航（例如通过DFG-Viewer， http://dfg-viewer.de/en/regarding-the-project/），以及在章节标题和图片说明中搜索。因此，VD 18项目与之前的两个项目VD 16和VD 17联系在一起，这两个项目建立了16世纪和17世纪的国家参考书目。VD 18的总收藏量约为585,000张。这些数字项目可以通过联合目录、OCLC的WorldCat （http://worldcat.org）、数字化印刷品中央目录（www.zvdd.de）和德国数字图书馆（http://ddb.de）访问。公爵夫人安娜·阿玛利亚图书馆计划为该项目再贡献3000幅印刷品。

The cooperative project “Digitisation and Indexing of Printed Material Published in the 18th Century in the German-Speaking Areas (VD 18)” aims at creating a retrospective German national bibliography of the 18th century. The project indexes German material printed between 1701 and 1800 and adds a unique VD18-identifier to each item. Furthermore, the printed material is going to be digitised within the project and will be made freely available on the internet. Adding detailed metadata of the document structure will facilitate navigating within the digital document (e.g. via the DFG-Viewer, http://dfg-viewer.de/en/regarding-the-project/) as well as searching within chapter headings and figure captions. Thus, the VD 18 project ties in with the two chronologically preceding projects VD 16 and VD 17, which set up national bibliographies for the 16th and 17th century. The total holdings of the VD 18 amounts to approximately 585,000 prints. The digital items can be accessed via the union catalogues, OCLC’s WorldCat (http://worldcat.org), the Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke (Central Inventory of Digitised Prints, www.zvdd.de), and the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library, http://ddb.de). Duchess Anna Amalia Library plans to contribute a further 3,000 prints to the project.