VD18-3 / UB Rostock – Digitisation and Indexing of Printed Material Published in the 18th Century in the German-Speaking Areas from the Collections of Rostock University Library and State Library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Günther Uecker

• Applicant: Karsten Labahn, since 10/2019
• Term: from 2018 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 403026260

The project is part of the national program „Digitisation and Indexing of Printed Material Published in the 18th Century in the German-Speaking Areas” (VD 18). The aim of the project is, 1) to catalogue according to the national bibliographic standard the prints assigned to Rostock University Library and State Library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Gunther Uecker from the VD18 coordination database, and 2) to provide high quality digital images on the internet according to the relevant DFG standards and rules. Altogether, Rostock University Library will catalogue and digitise about 5,400 monographs and 300 journal volumes with about 786,000 Images and catalogue another 1,000 monographs with already existing digital facsimiles.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Participating Institution: Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Robert Zepf, until 9/2019