• In terris Gryphi meets Data Science

    In terris Gryphi meets Data Science

    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: how are they used, and by…

  • Exhibition “Do the seagulls sometimes think of me?”

    Exhibition “Do the seagulls sometimes think of me?”

    Greifswald – The natural beauty of the Pomeranian Baltic coast was already being praised in the last century in a multitude of historical travel guides, which we have now digitised…

  • Curiosities in the files

    Curiosities in the files

    Greifswald – The files on historical road construction frequently contain documents one would not expect to find there. This was apparently a way to save paper: notes were typed or…

  • Girls’ Day in Schwerin: getting creative with milestones

    Girls’ Day in Schwerin: getting creative with milestones

    Rostock – At Girls’ Day in Schwerin, there was planning, building – and plenty of modelling clay. In line with the project, the participants were able to creatively expand their…

  • Warning: roadworks!

    Warning: roadworks!

    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 – and therefore doesn’t understand a newspaper’s…

  • Milestone reached!

    Milestone reached!

    Greifswald – In April 2026, we have reached a major milestone in the project: over 80,000 pages of Pomeranica have already been scanned and are available via the Digital Library…