„Sunflowers“ by van Gogh, the royal crown of Bavaria, Dürer's „Self-Portrait Wearing a Coat with Fur Collar“, the fairy tale castles of Ludwig II. and more than 200,000 other objects are being presented in an enhanced version of bavarikon, the Portal for art, culture and regional studies. BSB and its Munich DigitiZation Center is one of 13 contributing institutions and the technical provider of this project.
By the end of 2014, our long-term preservation system recorded 1,229,806,792 files (574 terabytes). The growth of the past year was 72 million files (62 TB). The large part of this information comes from the digitization activities in recent years.
MDZ publishes a specialized application for polyphonic music works for the digitization project Printed sources of polyphonic music (1501-1700) from the Bavarian State Library. It allows simultaneous display of voices from a set of parts to different segments of the screen. More than half of the 2,200 surviving in the BSB older printed music was published in the form of part-books (votes).
Completion of the pilot project on the digital edition of the Acta Pacis Westphalicae.
The number of digitised works published online exceeds 1 Million. Most frequently represented are works from the 19th century (357,000), followed by the 18th century (273,000), the 17th century (130,000) and the 16th century (98,000).
From the world's largest collection of incunabula preserved at the BSB (9,756 editions in 20,000 copies) 7,589 have already been digitized in the course of the past five years. This makes a quarter of all existing prints of the 15th century (the complete number of incunabula editions worldwide amounts to roughly 30,000). Among the best-known works there are the Gutenberg bible and Hartmann Schedel's illustrated personal copy of his world chronicle. Check our statistics for details.
Launch of the third version of this site, including several extended features as well as a mobile version.
The Portal
"bavarikon – Kultur und Wissensschätze Bayerns" goes live. Important evidence of Bavaria's cultural heritage should thus be available in the future for each and every time. The website, which is constantly being expanded, contains thousands of digitized archival documents, manuscripts, paintings and other museum objects over records to castles, to maps and photographs, and information about places, institutions and individuals.
The amount of preserved files excceeds the number of one billion. The archive contains 1,034,200,065 files (476 TB) so far.
Under the motto "SOS for Pergament, Paper & Bytes", the Bavarian State Library is hosting the 8th National Day of Action for the Conservation of cultural heritage. The event takes place in cooperation with partners such as the Bavarian Central State Archives, the Munich City Archives, the Associacion of Book Binders and several commercial providers of innovative scanning technology.
The first app off the BSB, "Famous Books - Treasures of the Bavarian State Library", becomes available for free. It presents most precious piecesfrom the rich holdings of the BSB. More apps will follow in the next few years.
The Verkündungsplattform Bayern goes online. It forms the central platform for the electronic delivery of Bavarian governmental publications. The MDZ handles the operation of the publication platform and the long-term preservation of its contents.
The first open day since five years is a great success. Several hundreds of visitors drop by to see our facilities and to have a chat with the staff of the MDZ.
Scan Robot Days at the Bavarian State Library. The four leading manufacturers of automated scanning devices show their newest equipment to a well-informed international public.
The Bavarian State Library is elected 'Library of the year 2008' by the The German Library Association. Among other facts the statement of the jury pointed out the developement of the Munich DigitiZation Center to a service and technology provider for libraries as well as the engagement of the library in long-term preservation together with the Leibniz Supercomputing Center. Award ceremony takes place October 24d.
Doubling of the data holdings within just one year. The archive now comprises 25.1 M files (49,9 TB data).
The classic MDZ homepage is being disconnected after 10 years of duty. Launch of a completely revised version with extended features.
Project VD16 digital starts. The digitization of the whole holdings of 16th century prints (7.230.000 pages approx.) by two scan robots starts July and will last til 2009.
The cooperation between the BSB and Google is announced and brings new challenges for the MDZ: All works digitized by Google are also made available and archived in the Digital Collections of the MDZ.
Rapid increase of production. The archive exceeds the limit of 15 million files (28 terabytes).
The first complete hardware-migration of the archival system succeeds within 10 days. Cause is the relocation of the Leibniz-Supercomputing-Center to München-Garching.
The MDZ ist the biggest german provider of retrodigitised content.
The archive exceeds the limit of 10 million files (15 terabytes).
Start of the project VD 16 with further new scanners.
Start of the long-term preservation project "Library Archiving and Access System" BABS. Implementation of new workflows in long-term preservation.
Evaluation of the MDZ by the German Research Foundation with positive result.
Start of digitization of the complete Monumenta Germaniae Historica which will be finished 2005.
Fundamental reorganisation and massive expansion of the Digitization
Center and installation of several modern scanning facilities. Start of mass digitization.
Relaunch of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online as a central portal for resources on Bavarian history.
The Munich DigitiZation Center abolishes its collection of CD-ROMs and DVDs. Change to professional and efficient storage systems by support of the Leibniz Supercomputinge Center. Implementing of automatic storage procedures.
The ZEND workflow-tool, based on Open-Source-Software, becomes the backbone of all digitization and archiving processes.
The Bavarian State Library is founder member of the nestor-initiative (the german Network of expertise in Digital long-term preservation).
First project in long-term preservation subjects together with the Software Technology Institute of the University of the German Federal Armed Forces (Universität der Bundeswehr).
Several digitization projects, realized with own equipment or by outsourcing. Assembling of a server infrastructure.
Inception of the Munich DigitiZation Center with support of the German Research Foundation.
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