The project "Deutsche Inschriften Online" (engl.: German Inscriptions Online) was planned and implemented as an interacademic venture by the
Academies of Sciences in
Mainz and
Göttingen. The project's aim was to
digitise the volumes DI 66/45/56/58/61 and make them available online. The realisation is based on a
database which was developed by the Inscription-offices in
Greifswald and Mainz. The venture has an
innovative character. It is a broadening of the project "Inschriften Mittelrhein-Hunsrück (IMH)" (engl.: Inscriptions of the
Middlerhine-
Hunsrück) conducted in 2008 in cooperation with the "Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde an der Universität Mainz" (engl.:
Institute for Regional
History located at the
University of Mainz). The project digitised the volume "Die Inschriften des Rhein-Hunsrück Kreises I (DI 60)" (engl.: The Inscriptions of the Rhine-Hunsrück District) edited by
epigraphist Eberhard J. Nikitsch. In the meantime the website of the IMH-Project has merged into the DIO-
Web portal. There is a long term plan for digitising and making available online further volumes; and well as providing an
English translation of the DIO-Website. Besides the digitized
scientific volumes DIO features; an advanced search interface; information concerning
epigraphy; a number of regular series, on topics such as "Epigraphischer Tipp" (engl.: Epigraphical Hint) and "Inschrift im Fokus" (engl.: Focused on Inscription); a
glossary; and a list of topical weblinks. In addition the site presents a wide range of
photographic images and illustrations of inscriptions or similar objects as a means of interlinking all possible information. Currently (January 2020) there are 47 volumes available on the database. These are the following volumes: • DI-19
Göttingen • DI-24 St.
Michaeliskloster in
Lüneburg and the monastery
Lüne until 1550 • DI-25 Landkreis
Ludwigsburg • DI-26
Osnabrück • DI-28
Hameln • DI-29
Worms • DI-30 Landkreis
Calw • DI-31
Aachen Cathedral • DI-32
Aachen • DI-34 Landkreis
Bad Kreuznach • DI-35
Braunschweig until 1528 • DI-36
Hannover • DI-37
Rems-Murr-Kreis • DI-38 Landkreis
Bergstraße • DI-41 Landkreis
Göppingen • DI-42
Einbeck • DI-45
Goslar • DI-46
Minden • DI-49
Darmstadt and the Landkreis
Darmstadt-Dieburg and Landkreis
Groß-Gerau • DI-50
Bonn • DI-51
Wiesbaden • DI-56
Braunschweig from 1529 to 1671 • DI-58
Hildesheim • DI-59
Lemgo • DI-60
Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis I (
Boppard,
Oberwesel,
St. Goar) • DI-61
Helmstedt • DI-62 Landkreis
Weißenfels • DI-63
Odenwaldkreis • DI-64 former Landkreis
Querfurt • DI-66 Landkreis
Göttingen • DI-67
Passau up to the town fire of 1662 • DI-69
Freising • DI-74
Regensburg II.
St. Peter's cathedral 1 (up to 1500) • DI-75
Halberstadt Cathedral • DI-76 The Lüneburgian monasteries
Ebstorf,
Isenhagen,
Lüne,
Medingen,
Walsrode,
Wienhausen • DI-77
Greifswald • DI-78
Baden-Baden and
Landkreis Rastatt • DI-79
Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis II (former Landkreis
Simmern and western part of the former Landkreis
St. Goar) • DI-80 Landkreis
Passau I. The former districts of
Passau and
Wegscheid • DI-81
Essen • DI-83 Landkreis
Holzminden • DI-84 Landkreis
Weilheim-Schongau up to 1650 • DI-85
Halle an der Saale • DI-86
Halberstadt • DI-88 Landkreis
Hildesheim • DI-89
Düsseldorf • DI-95
Regensburg.
St. Peter's Cathedral 2 (from 1501 to 1700) • DI-96 Landkreis
Northeim • DI-99
Ingolstadt In addition, there are six online catalogues, which are either only available in digital form or have not been published in print within the edition series "Die Deutschen Inschriften". • DIO-1 The Inscriptions of the City of
Mainz. First Part: The Inscriptions of the
Cathedral and the Museum of Cathedral and Diocese ranging from 800 to 1350 • DIO-2
Gandersheim Abbey and her own monasteries Brunshausen and Clus • DIO-3
Santa Maria dell'Anima in
Rome • DIO-4
Mariental monastery • DIO-5 Nail-Chapel of the
Bamberg Cathedral • DIO-6 Textile inscriptions of the city of
Bamberg The
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences has made another five volumes available online as digital copies. • DI-4
Wimpfen am Neckar • DI-5 City of
Munich and Landkreis
Munich • DI-13 Cemeteries of St. John's,
St. Rochus and Wöhrd in
Nuremberg • DI-15
Rothenburg ob der Tauber • DI-17 Landkreis
Haßberge Other collaborative projects The team responsible for the DIO archive has also launched the online publication of a database of inscriptions in the “German national church”
Santa Maria dell’Anima in
Rome. This database contains inscriptions dating from mediaeval times to 1559; it was published in collaboration with the
German Historical Institute in Rome. Another interdisciplinary project closely related to DIO is
St. Stephen virtual, a project run jointly by several institutes and academic departments in
Mainz. Its goal was to make information from the database accessible to the general public by simulating a "virtual visit" of the interior
cloister of
St. Stephen's Church, Mainz. The aim of the project
Referenzkorpus historischer Texte des Deutschen (Engl. linguistic corpus of German language texts) is to annotate the grammatical structure of texts. It is planned to make the annotated texts available online within the
Referenzkorpus Deutsche Inschriften (Engl. linguistic corpus of German inscriptions), with an estimated 400,000 annotated word forms. == See also ==