Digitalization of the catalogues of the Saxon State Archives

• Applicant: Dr. Andrea Wettmann
• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2020 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 420479289

The project encompasses the digitization of the catalogues of 53 record groups belonging to the departments Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden and Staatsarchiv Chemnitz. These are among the most frequently used record groups of the Saxon State Archives. Covering the period from the 11th to the 20th century, they are fundamental to research on political, administrative, economic and military history, be it in the context of Saxony or Germany as a whole. The planned measures complement previous digitization projects. The aim of the project is the online publication of the archival catalogs on the homepage of the Saxon State Archives (www.archiv.sachsen.de) and also in the national Archivportal-D as part of Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (www.archivportal-d.de/), the Archivportal Europa (www.archivesportaleurope.net/) and the Europeana (www.europeana.eu/), making this archival material better available for scientific and non-scientific users.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)