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Finding the Needle in the Haystack: The “Stern” Photo Archive at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich – its Concept and Use

Eva Kraus , Ingrid Pérez de Laborda and Fabian Waßer

From the Journal: Rundbrief Fotografie

Published online:

04 Dec 2024

Abstract

Abstract

The project to digitise the analogue “Stern” Photo Archive at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) in Munich entails digitising and cataloguing three million photographs and storing them on a dedicated portal developed specially for this purpose (<www.stern-fotoarchiv.de>). This paper explains how the photographs – the archive as a whole comprises some fifteen million objects – are slowly but surely being rendered visible and available for use on the said BSB portal. It sets out the key principles of the underlying concept, the structure of the portal, and the many different ways in which the material can be used.

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