Society and Radical Change: Digitization of the political press from the Halle-Merseburg Region in 19th and 20th Century

• Applicant: Anke Berghaus-Sprengel
• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 443832513

The project aims to digitize seven political newspapers from the Halle-Merseburg region. They will be published in open access on the DINI-certified DSpace repository Share_it of the ULB Saxony-Anhalt. This will also enable the digital copies to be recorded in the GBV catalogue, the Ha:Lit discovery system, and delivered to the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and Europeana. Searchable full text of the newspapers will be generated with the help of the OCR technology Tesseract. In addition, the newspapers will be structured on the level of individual issues (Grundstandard 2).

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