Digital library - status at the end of the year
Another major step in the Club Daguerre digital library was completed at the end of the year:
The content indexing of Photo Antiquaria is now complete for all issues from the first edition in 1974 up to and including 2025. This means that the entire historical stock of issues is now available in a structured and fully searchable form.
Special thanks go to Harald Goergens who, as an experienced photo historian, has made an extraordinary contribution to this project: He has identified, checked and assigned almost 38,000 keywords. This is not just hard work, but real research and organising work - and it forms the backbone of the entire research.
Search process in the digital library using the example of "Aka"
In the final stage, keywording was once again massively advanced in terms of depth and differentiation. It is immediately apparent that great care, perseverance and a real understanding of the material was applied here.
This enormous concentration of content had one direct consequence: the digital library had to "grow". Where hit lists used to be manageable, the search now provides significantly more references, finer differentiations and more context. To ensure that the results do not become confusing, we have specifically revised the interface: The hits are deduplicated in technical jargon. The presentation of results has been restructured, the card view has been visually calmed down and organised more clearly - with the aim of quickly recognising what it is about and where you can look it up, even with extensive hits.
The addition of the 2026 issues is planned and is expected to take place on an ongoing basis; final editing will take place once the final versions of the issues are available.
The Digital Library is a collaborative endeavour and thrives on the commitment of our members. The Executive Board would like to thank everyone involved for their continuous and diligent work.