The German Digital Library (Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek) provides access to a multitude of digitized artefacts of the cultural heritatage aggregated from many German cultural and scientific institutions. This project attempts to make the vast extent of its cultural content graspable through different interactive visualizations.
The visualizations are the result of an explorative process which were developed to provide innovative perspectives on the content. In contrast to existing search interfaces, which display the few objects in ordinary result lists, the presented visualizations represent the distribution of many objects along time, place, topic, people, and other dimensions.