Digital Library

The Digital Library evolved from early digitization initiatives with the help of a Wolfenbüttel book mirror. Today, the library has a diversified lab with highly advanced digitization technology and currently two permanent positions. One of the main tasks of the Digital Library is the gradual digitization of the Rara collection, focusing on Special Collections. The goal is to produce high-quality digitizations (digital facsimiles) and make them accessible in an ergonomically optimal form in open access, especially in light of the mass of low-quality, incomplete, or erroneous digital copies available online (digital trash). The library has also successfully experimented with creating digital 3D objects. All of these products require, in addition to the base quality of the scans, extensive manual post-processing of the image files.
At the same time, the Digital Library works as part of the Digital Lab, supporting some projects as a lead partner (see Digitization Project).
With significant financial support from the Tristan Weddigen Department (covering travel literature and topography in Italy), an extensive part of the travel literature on Italy has been digitized.