Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper presents a survey of the preservation and digitisation status of the German-language press published in interwar Lithuania, which existed between 1918 and 1940.In the newly established and ethnically diverse Lithuanian Republic, which was operating in accordance with the European Minority Protection Regime, German-language newspapers and other periodicals formed a relevant part of the country's multilingual press.They represent an interesting yet underexplored resource for historical and linguistic research.The survey summarises bibliographic information and the results of earlier digitisation projects.Although systematic digitisation remains future work, this paper notes some challenges for optical character recognition (OCR) within this collection, particularly in relation to typographic variation, and outlines the envisaged format of the digital resource
Authors: Lina Plaušinaitytė, Heike Zinsmeister
Institutions: Universität Hamburg, Vilnius University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7166539728