The First World War is considered the "seminal catastrophe of the 20th century". A complex history and diverse causes meant that within a few weeks after the assassination of the Austrian Archduke couple in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 a "conflagration" unprecedented scale was created. The first world war was brought about by rulers, politicians and military men who willingly exert their war as a means to achieve their goals. The messages, reports and pictures of the newspapers are never free from national trend, often designed specifically for propaganda purposes and used for propaganda. Let yourself from a distance of 100 years of historical experience to bring to the scenes of 1914 and follow in the Hamburger Nachrichten step by step headline for headline route from the assassination attempt on the "August experience" and the German war of conquest to the gruesome war winter 1914th
The app was created as part of the complete digitization of Hamburg news by the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky and their preparation for the articles Search by CCS Content Conversion Specialists, Hamburg, in the framework of the EU project Europeana Newspapers. An expert team of historians of the State Library of Hamburg has selected for the app from the wealth of newspaper and visual material time those documents are the political and local hamburger content exemplary of the media coverage of the 1st World War. A chronicle with short introductory texts and references helps in the classification of the material.
Genre App
To 31 December (1914, individually or monthly rechargeable in the app and re-erasable) selected 930 newspaper pages from the morning and evening editions of the Hamburg news from the period June 29 -
- Full text search of this newspaper pages, supplemented by suggestions and expert tips on searching
- 100 images selected by the Hamburg Bed sheet to illustrate
- Chronology of key events associated with links to Wikipedia articles for orientation over the course of the war
About CCS
CCS is a technology company based in Hamburg. We develop market-leading applications for creating and sharing digital libraries. Our software is used docWorks of the largest libraries, publishers and archives to convert print media in a clean, structured and searchable digital copies. A total of over 150 million book and newspaper pages docWorks have so far been processed. For optimal viewing of this digital content we develop user-friendly apps, interactive touch screens and innovative exhibition showcases. If you want to learn more about CCS, visit us at www.content-conversion.com or call us at 040-227130-0.
The app was created as part of the complete digitization of Hamburg news by the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky and their preparation for the articles Search by CCS Content Conversion Specialists, Hamburg, in the framework of the EU project Europeana Newspapers. An expert team of historians of the State Library of Hamburg has selected for the app from the wealth of newspaper and visual material time those documents are the political and local hamburger content exemplary of the media coverage of the 1st World War. A chronicle with short introductory texts and references helps in the classification of the material.
Genre App
To 31 December (1914, individually or monthly rechargeable in the app and re-erasable) selected 930 newspaper pages from the morning and evening editions of the Hamburg news from the period June 29 -
- Full text search of this newspaper pages, supplemented by suggestions and expert tips on searching
- 100 images selected by the Hamburg Bed sheet to illustrate
- Chronology of key events associated with links to Wikipedia articles for orientation over the course of the war
About CCS
CCS is a technology company based in Hamburg. We develop market-leading applications for creating and sharing digital libraries. Our software is used docWorks of the largest libraries, publishers and archives to convert print media in a clean, structured and searchable digital copies. A total of over 150 million book and newspaper pages docWorks have so far been processed. For optimal viewing of this digital content we develop user-friendly apps, interactive touch screens and innovative exhibition showcases. If you want to learn more about CCS, visit us at www.content-conversion.com or call us at 040-227130-0.
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