We realize our projects with the support of research funders such as the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) or by using our own funds. In this way, we can, for instance, advance our digital research library.
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period: 2021–2026
BERD@NFDI aims to develop and disseminate transparent, open and innovative standards and tools to manage unstructured (“big”) data and to combine and connect them with structured data in economics, business and related research fields. BERD@NFDI builds a consortium of partners from Business Studies, Economics and related fields, integrating expertise from both research and infrastructure. This network aims to contribute to the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period: 2021–2023
The project integrates OCR-D with Kitodo for use on a web server for distributed operation and to display full texts in the DFG Viewer. Project partners are the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) Dresden and the University Library Braunschweig.
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period: 2021–2023
The goal of this project is to enable institutions (for example, libraries) to retrain the modules of the OCR-D workflow as easily as possible so that better recognition rates can be achieved for specific works.
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period: 2019–2022
The project works on articles that have been digitized partly, digitizes missing pages and improves the full-text recognition of the newspaper.
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg | Funding period: 2019–2022
The Business and Economic Research Data Center (BERD-BW) establishes a competence center for data availability, data exchange and data analysis in economics and business administration. BERD-BW is a joint project of partners at the University of Mannheim and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW). It is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg.
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg | Funding period: 2019–2021
The libraries of the University of Mannheim, the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim and the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim are working together to create new learning rooms for their users, expand their training offers and to facilitate mutual access to their services. The cooperation project of the libraries in Mannheim is one of 15 selected projects of the funding program “BW-BigDIWA – Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken gestalten den digitalen Wandel” (academic libraries shaping digital transformation) which is unique in Germany.
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period: 2018–2019
Mannheim University Library is part of the “Coordinated Funding Initiative for the Further Development of Methods for Optical Character Recognition (OCR)” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Our project focuses on Tesseract, a free optical character recognition software.
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period: 2017–2019
In the follow-up project on the “Aktienführer data archive”, all print editions of the Aktienführer and Saling’s Börsenpapiere which have been published until 1975 are digitized and an index of the tables of contents is created. The contents will be indexed and made available by using automatic character recognition (OCR). In order to further develop the project, the individual steps will then be automated. The project will develop tools for the automatic structuring and classification of the most important information. The results and the software tools to be developed will be documented and made available as open source for sustainable use.
Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation | Funding period: 2017–2018
In a collaborative project with Professor Sebastian Siegloch, the University Library digitizes selected historic directories of municipalities (Gemeindeverzeichnisse) of the German Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period: 2014–2016
The InFoLiS follow-up project developed heuristic processes to extract references to research data from academic publications in social sciences and to integrate these references in the Primo catalog of the University Library and the GESIS Data Catalog DBK.
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Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period: 2011–2013
Meta data of research data are linked to bibliographic data so that the information can be found in the research systems of the subject-specific information centers and university libraries.
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Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period: 2013–2015
The printed editions of the Hoppenstedt Aktienführer published between 1979 and 1999 were digitized. The data are made available as digitized images and machine-readable data. This means that a efficient data infrastructure has been established and made available for research purposes.
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Funding period 2006–2007
The main goals of the project were to shift the organization’s focus towards the customers’ demands and to develop a controlling instrument to optimize customer satisfaction. The weblog which was implemented during the project is an interactive portal which makes it easy to send requests, complaints or suggestions. We analyze the customer’s comments with regard to the adaptation of our services. We are therefore able to react quickly to criticism or suggestions and improve our services, if necessary.