Current projects

Databank of Digital  Daily newspapers

Large scale digitization and making available of key national, regional and colonial newspapers. The database will eventually contain eight million pages of newspapers dating from the seventeenth century to the present.
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Dutch parliamentary papers

A project of the KB and the library of the House of Representatives to film and digitize the Dutch parliamentary papers from the period 1814-1995.
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Google

A project in cooperation with Google to digitize and provide access to at least 160.000 out-of-copyright books from the collections of the KB.
Introduction

Early European Books

A project in cooperation with ProQuest to digitize and provide access to 50.000 early printed books from the collections of the KB.
Introduction

Gateway to European Newspapers online

A group of 17 European partner institutions joined forces to provide better access to  newspaper collections.
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Programmes

The Memory of the Netherlands

The Memory of the Netherlands is an extensive digital collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making.
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Metamorfoze

National programme for the preservation of library materials.
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Background information

About policy and research and development for large scale digitization projects.