In the land of the griffin

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Dispatches from the project — activities, ideas, plans and the odd archival surprise. Every entry is published in German, Polish and English.
Greifswald · Szczecin

Szczecin – On July 21, the Książnica Pomorska’s digitization lab in Szczecin was officially opened. A diverse crowd was in attendance, the press was…
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Greifswald – “History you can touch!” was the theme of this year’s Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania History Festival on 4 July 2026. We were there in…
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Szczecin – As part of the “In terris Gryphi” project, the Pomeranian State Library in Szczecin will publish, amongst other things, a guide to…
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Greifswald – What actually happens to our digitised cultural treasures once we’ve uploaded them to the Digital Library of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? In other words:…
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Greifswald – The natural beauty of the Pomeranian Baltic coast was already being praised in the last century in a multitude of historical travel…
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Greifswald – The files on historical road construction frequently contain documents one would not expect to find there. This was apparently a way to…
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Rostock – At Girls’ Day in Schwerin, there was planning, building – and plenty of modelling clay. In line with the project, the participants…
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Greifswald. We have construction sites within the project too. One of them concerns automatic text recognition, because the much-praised AI can’t actually read –…
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Greifswald – In April 2026, we have reached a major milestone in the project: over 80,000 pages of Pomeranica have already been scanned and…
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Greifswald – It is just when the trees start to come into leaf again in late April that you notice: Avenues still characterise our…
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