In the Land of the Griffin

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…