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The Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, SBB) is one of the largest scientific universal libraries in Germany and a central supplier of national and international literature. More than 11 million volumes of printed material alone have accumulated since the library was founded in 1661. A constantly increasing number of databases and other electronic resources complement the collection.
The SBB is digitizing its holdings and making them available free-of-charge via the 'Digital Collections' online portal: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/. Additionally, in a number of projects such as OCR-D, Qurator and Mensch.Maschine.Kultur, the SBB is currently researching and developing AI/ML technologies for computational analysis and enrichment of the digital collections. A growing number of datasets and demos is made available via the SBB-LAB.