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Historical holdings of the UB Kassel on the European platform "Europeana
Europeana networks the digital collections of cultural and scientific institutions in Europe and makes them centrally accessible. Through its portal, it offers free access to digitized works of art, books, pieces of music, monuments, films, documents, and many other treasures of the European cultural and scientific heritage. Its national counterpart and "aggregator", is the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB).
After the Kassel University Library has already been present in the DDB with its ORKA holdings since August 2016, it has now also succeeded in making the holdings visible on the European platform Europeana. This makes the UB Kassel one of the first German libraries to present its cultural treasures in this way.
ORKA is the University of Kassel's online archive for manuscripts, bequests, photographs, music, journals, monographs and maps. The culturally and historically significant sources digitized by the University Library are made available worldwide free of charge for private and academic use. The digitized material itself continues to be located exclusively on ORKA; only thumbnails and metadata were delivered to Europeana - as well as to the DDB. The inclusion in the two renowned portals has significantly improved the visibility of the Kassel holdings made available via ORKA.