Third-Party Funds Projects at Heidelberg University Library
Ongoing Projects
Specialised Information Services
arthistoricum.net – Specialised Information Service for Art
Time Frame: 01.01.2014–31.12.2016; 01.01.2017–31.12.2019; 01.01.2020–31.12.2020; 01.01.2021–31.12.2023(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Propylaeum – Specialised Information Service for Classics
Time Frame: 01.01.2016–31.12.2018; 01.01.2019–31.12.2021; 01.01.2022–31.12.2024(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
FID4SA – Specialised Information Service for South Asia
Time Frame: 01.01.2022 – 31.12.2024(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Free Access to Scholarly Information – Publishing in Open Access, Research Data Management, Images and Multimedia
The Papyrological Publication Platform (P3): Innovative Data Exchange
Time Frame: 01.07.2020–30.06.2023, 15.08.2023–(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
duerer.online – Virtual Research Network Albrecht Dürer
Time Frame: 1.6.2020–31.5.2023, 01.06.2023–31.05.2026(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Open Access Publikationskosten
Time Frame: 1.1.2022–31.12.2024(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Digitization and Editing Projects, Cataloguing Charters and Manuscripts
Salemitana pictura: Indexing and art-historical description of the book illumination of the manuscripts from the monastery libraries Salem and Petershausen
Time Frame: 01.08.2022–31.07.2024(Funded by: Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg)
Bibliotheca Cartusiana Moguntina – digital. Virtuelle Kartausebibliothek Mainz
Time frame: 01.02.2020-31.01.2026(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Palatina pictura. Cataloguing and Art Historical Description of the Miniatures of the Latin Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina
Time Frame: 01.09.2017-13.08.2020(Funded by: Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg)
The Cataloguing of 876 Medieval and Early Modern Latin Manuscripts from Heidelberg’s Bibliotheca Palatina in the Vatican Library in Rome
Time Frame: 01.01.2014-30.06.2023(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Digitization of the Codices Palatini latini in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome
Time Frame: starting 01.01.2012(Funded by: Manfred-Lautenschläger-Stiftung gGmbH)
Completed Projects
Nikolaus von Jeroschin – digital
Time Frame: 01.09.2020–31.10.2021, 2nd project phase under preparation(Funded by: Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien)
Heidelberg und die Kurpfalz im Spiegel der Kunst – Digitalisierung und wissenschaftliche Erschließung bedeutender Bestände der Graphischen Sammlung des Kurpfälzischen Museums Heidelberg und der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Time frame: 01.09.2020–30.08.2023(Funded by: Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg)
Profession und Familie im gelehrten Milieu des Kaiserreichs. Die Familien Mommsen und von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Mit der digitalen Edition der Briefwechsel von Theodor und Marie Mommsen sowie Ulrich und Ulrike von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Time Frame: 16.05.2017–2022(Funded by: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)
Retrodigitization of Art and Classical Studies Literature for the Getty Research Portal
Time Frame: 2015 - 2021(Funded by: Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles )
Digitalisierung historischer Quellen zum Kunsthandel in deutschsprachigen Raum: Auktions-, Antiquariats- und Verkaufskataloge der Jahre 1871 bis 1949
Project start date: 01.05.2021-30.04.2022(Funded by: Funding program "Neustart Kultur" by
CrossAsia – Specialised Information Service East- and Southeast Asia
Time Frame: 01.01.2016–31.12.2018; 01.01.2019–31.12.2021(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Semantics4Art&Architecture. Creation of a sustainable research infrastructure for ontology-based documentation and indexing of art and architecture
Time Frame: 01.11.2018 – 31.12.2021(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Digitisation and Indexing of Printed Material from Heidelberg University Library published in the 18th Century in the German-Speaking Areas (VD 18)
Time Frame: 01.08.2014 – 31.12.2015; 01.04.2016 – 31.03.2018; 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2021(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Archivum Laureshamense – digital: Virtuelles Klosterarchiv Lorsch
Time Frame: 2017 – 2021(Funded by: Land Hessen)
The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: a Collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and Heidelberg
Time Frame: 01.09.2018–31.12.2021(Funded by: The Polonsky Foundation)
Retrodigitalisierung der Heidelberger Jahrbücher 1808-1958
Time Frame: 2016-2019(Funded by: Gesellschaft der Freunde – Stiftung Universität Heidelberg)
Open Access Publishing Fund
Time Frame: 01.01.2019-31.12.2019(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
CS-FDP: Community-specific Publication of Research Data
Time Frame: 01.01.2016-31.12.2019(Funded by: Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg)
Sustainable OJS-Infrastructure for electronic Publishing of scholarly journals
Time Frame: 01.04.2014–31.07.2019(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Art – Auctions – Provenances. The German Art Trade as Reflected in Auction Catalogues from 1901 to 1929
Time Frame: 01.03.2013–31.03.2019(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Digitization of unique collections of Baden-Wuerttemberg’s libraries
Time Frame: 01.01.2011–31.12.2018(Funded by: Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg)
Von der „Virtuellen Diathek“ zur zentralen Objekt- und Sammlungsdatenbank: heidICON als Core Facility für die Digital Humanities an der Uni Heidelberg
Time Frame: 17.10.2016–30.04.2018(Funded by: Field of Focus 3 „Cultural Dynamics in Globalised Worlds“ (FoF 3) within Heidelberg University's concept of the comprehensive university in the German Excellence Initiative. )
Kaiserchronik digital
Time Frame: starting 2015(Funded by: University of Cambridge (via Arts & Humanities Research Council, AHRC))
Development of a business model for Open-Access-Books
Time Frame: 01.05.2014 – 30.06.2017(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digitized: Virtualization of the Monastic Library of Lorsch
Time Frame: 01.03.2010 - 30.11.2015(Funded by: Federal State of Hessen)
The European perspective: Digitization and Indexing of foreign Illustrated Art- and Satirical Journals of the 19th and Early 20th Century
Time Frame: 01.08.2013 - 31.07.2015(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Cataloguing of Medieval and Early Modern manuscript fragments of the monastic libraries Salem and Petershausen in the collection of Heidelberg University Library
Time Frame: 01.11.2012 - 30.04.2015(Funded by: Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg)
Open Access Publishing Fund
Time Frame: 01.01.2014–31.12.2018(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network: Digital Books, Images and Objects
Time Frame: 01.09.2009 - 31.12.2014(Funded by: DFG (German Research Foundation) - )
Karl Preisendanz Bequest (1883-1968)
Preservation, cataloguing and access to the bequest of the papyrologist and librarian Karl Preisendanz (1883–1968) held in Heidelberg University LibraryTime Frame: 01.06.2013 - 30.11.2014
(Funded by: Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg)
Re-Cataloguing of the Codices Palatini Germanici
Time Frame: 01.01.2001 - 30.11.2014Cataloguing of 848 German Palatina manuscripts
(Funded by: DFG (German Research Foundation) - )
„Make 1 out of 9” – East Asian Literature at Heidelberg under one user interface - international visible and networked.
Time Frame: 01.03.2011 - 30.06.2014(Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - )
Cataloguing of Palatine and Upper Swabian Charters
Time Frame: 01.11.2011 - 30.10.2013(Funded by: Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg)
Digitization and subject-cataloguing of illustrated art and satire periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century
Time Frame: 01.04.2009 - 31.07.2013(Funded by: DFG (German Research Foundation) - )
German Sales 1930-1945. Art Works, Art Markets, and Cultural Policy
Time Frame: starting in late 2010(Funded by: DFG (German Research Foundation) - )
National Endowment for the Humanities
VolkswagenStiftung
Cataloguing of the Codices Salemitani
Time Frame: since 01.11.2007Cataloguing of around 300 manuscripts from the monastic libraries Salem and Petershausen
(Funded by: Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg)
Ernst Wahle Bequest (1889-1981)
Preservation, cataloguing and access to the bequest of the archaeologist Ernst Wahle (1889-1981) held in Heidelberg University LibraryTime Frame: 01.04.2010-31.03.2012
(Funded by: Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg)
Propylaeum – Virtual Library Classical Studies
Time Frame: 01.06.2006 - 31.05.2010Set up of a Virtual Library for Egyptology and Classical Archaeology
(Funded by: DFG (German Research Foundation) - )
Digitization of 848 German Palatina-Manuscripts in Heidelberg University Library
Time Frame: 01.05.2006 - 30.04.2009(Funded by: Manfred-Lautenschläger-Stiftung gGmbH)
arthistoricum.net – Virtual Library for Art History
Time Frame: 01.02.2005 - 31.08.2010Set up of a Virtual Library for Art History (Special Subject Collection)
(Funded by: DFG (German Research Foundation) - )
Savifa – Virtual Library South Asia
Time Frame: January 2005 - March 2010Set up of a Virtual Library for South Asian Studies (Special Subject Collection)
(Funded by: DFG (German Research Foundation) - )
heidICON – The object and multimedia database of Heidelberg University
Time Frame: 2005-2009Set up of a central object and image database for Heidelberg University
Funded by: Gesellschaft der Freunde – Stiftung Universität Heidelberg
BibTutor
Time Frame: 01.11.2004 - 30.04.2007(Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research )
Set Up of a Digitization Department
Time Frame: 2003-2009(Funded by: Manfred-Lautenschläger-Stiftung gGmbH)
Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina
Time Frame: 01.01.2001 - 31.12.2002(Funded by: DFG (German Research Foundation) - )
Partners and Sponsors
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
- Gesellschaft der Freunde – Stiftung Universität Heidelberg
(contribution to larger acquisitions, e.g. equipment for Digitization Department) - Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
- Manfred-Lautenschläger-Stiftung gGmbH
- Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- PosPrint24
(receipt rolls and cash register rolls) - Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg
- VolkswagenStiftung