DSDK

Digital Collection of German Colonialism

Info

Applicant:
  • PD Dr. Alexander Geyken
  • Maria Elisabeth Müller
  • Dr. Heiner Schnelling, to 6/2020
  • Daniela Poth, since 7/2020
Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Term: 2017 to 2019
Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number: 324473798
Institution:
  • Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), Berlin,
  • Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SuUB), Bremen,
  • Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main

Description

The Digital Collection of German Colonialism (DSDK) consists of holdings from the Bremen State and University Library (SuUB Bremen) and the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library Frankfurt/Main (UB Frankfurt). For the first time, a digital collection of texts on the core period of German colonialism (1884 - 1919) will be made digitally accessible, thus offering the opportunity to pose theoretical questions using technologically up-to-date, computer-aided methods. The corpus can be used by various academic disciplines. The publications are set in Fraktur according to the period. The automatic full-text digitization was carried out using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) methods. The Digital Collection of German Colonialism is presented in the SuUB Bremen and the UB Frankfurt.

Examples
Examples from the holdings of the Digital Collection of German Colonialism