The Archive of Social Democracy is expanding its online portal for researching and accessing archive and library materials as well as the digital publications of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The platform is divided into four different collection groups, which can be accessed via the central home page.
The Historical Press of German Social Democracy consists of around 30 newspapers with approximately 300,000 digitised pages. Using optical character recognition, all titles are searchable in full text. In addition, automated named entity recognition has been implemented, enabling navigation via automatically generated indexes. The entities have also been linked to authority data using named entity linking. The newspapers can also be accessed conveniently via a calendar mode, a map display or a targeted keyword search for people and topics.
The portfolio is further expanded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's digital library, where almost all of the foundation's publications are available in full text as PDF, EPUB or HTML files and can be accessed immediately without any restrictions.
The Archive for Social History (AfS), an internationally recognised journal published annually since 1961, also has a place on the portal: each volume deals with a specific topic and provides essays, extensive research reports and collective reviews on current trends in historiography; individual contributions are also published online.
Finally, the portal also integrates archive material, which is divided into personal holdings, organisational holdings and collection holdings. Some holdings are already fully digitised and available in the portal. Further holdings will be added gradually. In addition, metadata for non-digitised holdings will also be implemented to enable searches in the metadata.
Bringing these collections together in one place improves research considerably and increases the visibility of historical sources. We cordially invite you to visit the new portal and explore the wide range of collections.