Cultural heritage for research and study

Imagine being able to work with everything which has been published in Denmark since the 16th century: all the books, magazines and newspapers, medieval manuscripts, Danish websites, and TV and radio programmes. In addition, there are author archives, folk tales, and international treasures. Altogether, it forms a unique collection of knowledge and sources for a wide range of culture-historical topics.

No matter what project you are working on, the library's collections can be brought into play. They are just waiting to be used in new research or dissemination.

Already today, researchers and students are using digital cultural heritage in new ways. For example, more than 500,000 newspaper pages from the absolute monarchy have been recreated as digital text data. Here, researchers have developed machine learning models which can recognize both layout and text on newspaper pages with high precision and segment the recognized content. Others have used the digital map collection as a basis for new knowledge about mortality – including in connection with plague diseases in a parish in southern Jutland in the 17th century.