Digitization
Advice on digitization projects
We support researchers and lecturers at the University of Bern on issues concerning standards and formats for scanning, image processing, workflows, full text recognition, costs, text mining, copyright or long-term archiving. Scroll down to "contact persons" for contact details.
Digitization of printed publications
Since 2002, the University Library Bern digitizes printed publications and publishes them on the platforms listed below. Lecturers and researchers at the University of Bern can make suggestions for the digitization of works for these platforms.
e-rara: Monographs until 1900
Since 2008, the University Library Bern digitizes historical Bernese prints from the 16th to the 19th century as well as books from special collections, which are available online in high resolution.
e-periodica: Swiss journals and series
Since 2010, the University Library Bern digitizes printed journals of scientific societies, yearbooks, magazines as well as source material from the Canton of Bern and makes these digitizations freely accessible on e-periodica.
e-newspaperarchives
Currently, the University Library Bern digitizes three million newspaper pages that have appeared in print between 1692 and 2000 in the cities of Bern, Biel, Thun and the Bernese Jura.
digiBern
The online portal of the University Library Bern on the history and culture of the city and canton of Bern.
Google Books
Contact Persons Digitization
- Name / Titel
- Christian Lüthi
- Funktion
- Head of central services and coordinator retrodigitization
- christian.luethi@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 92 03
- Name / Titel
- Ulrike Bürger
- Funktion
- Head of the Historical Collections Center, subject librarian histroical collections and bibliography
- ulrike.buerger@unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 684 93 47
- Phone2
- +41 31 684 92 11