VD18 Hauptphase IV

The DFG-funded project "Digitization and Cataloging of 18th-Century Printed Works Published in the German-Speaking World" is creating a retrospective German national bibliography for the 18th century, following the model of the predecessor projects VD 16 and VD 17 for earlier centuries. In this "Catalogue of German Printed Works of the 18th Century" (VD18), all printed works published between 1701 and 1800—either in the German language or within the German-speaking region—are cataloged collaboratively and assigned a unique VD18 number.
Unlike the predecessor projects, the cataloging of relevant monographs and multi-volume works does not take place in a dedicated database but rather within the respective library network environments of the participating libraries; periodicals are recorded in the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB). At the same time, the works are being digitized. Catalog records and digital copies can be searched in the union catalogs but are also automatically fed into the publicly accessible VD18 database.
During the pilot phase, SUB Göttingen cataloged, digitized, enriched with structural data, and made available online 21,000 monographs and multi-volume works as well as 2,000 journal volumes. As part of the first stage of the main phase, an additional 3,100 monographs and multi-volume works and 400 journal volumes were processed; in the second stage of the main phase, 8,000 monographs and multi-volume works; and in the third stage, another 1,200 monographs and multi-volume works along with just under 600 journal volumes. In addition, 7,000 titles were cataloged that had already been digitized by Google at the BSB Munich but had not yet been cataloged. All VD18 digital copies from SUB Göttingen can be viewed in the VD18 collection of the Göttingen Digitization Centre.
In this fourth and final project phase, SUB Göttingen is cataloging and digitizing just under 2,600 monographs and multi-volume works. Furthermore, SUB Göttingen is organizing the necessary workflows for this national bibliographic project in collaboration with the Network Centre of the Joint Library Network and the DFG Head Office.