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Welcome to the Catalog of Disk Magazines!

• What is a 'disk magazine'?
• Who is involved in this project?

Browse

• in 📖 alphabetical order
• by a category:
  • 👩‍💻 computer system
  • 💬 content language
  • 🗺️ country of origin
  • 🎩 publishers
  • 👨‍🎤 scene related groups
  • 💙 data source
• in a curated subcollection:
  • 🖼️ Gallery of selected diskmags
  • 🎉 Currently active diskmags (upcoming)
  • German-Language Diskmags
  • East-Central European Diskmags
  • Russian-Language Diskmags (upcoming)
• 🔎 or enter a search term

News

2024

• updated Violence and Overshadow (6 Dec)
• updated Scene World and Digital Talk (25 Nov)
• curated subset of magazines from East-Central_European_Diskmags is now available (25 July)
• iRights.info released some helpful slides on legal implications of text mining diskmags (12 June)
• Noerdman released a webcomic about our project in the GI magazine, see here! (22 Apr)
• paper at DHd 2024 (28 Feb)
• plenary talk at Edition als Transformation (22 Feb)

2023

• talk at 37C3: Das Diskmags-Projekt (28 Dec)
• added an Italian Diskmag: RUN (21 Dec)
• added a Serbian Diskmag: Amiga Front (14 Dec)
• conference paper published: Diskettenmagazine als Frühes Kulturerbe (29 Nov)
• updated the complete catalog (20 Oct)

see also 📖👩‍🏫 Publications and Presentations

Data

• The catalog currently contains records for 2515 disk magazines with 17578 single issues ingested so far.
• Data from this catalog is accessible through a REST API:
  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API
• Raw datasets are available at our GitHub Repository:
  https://github.com/zpd-digital-editions/Diskmags
• The current data release is stable and usable. The entries of the curated subcollections have good data quality. Many other entries still need to be updated.

Contact

If you like to help or if you have any question, please contact us: info💾diskmags.de.