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Welcome to the Catalog of Disk Magazines!

💾❔ What is a 'disk magazine'?

🦸‍♂️🦹‍♀️ Who is involved in this project?

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

News

see also: 📖👩‍🏫 Publications and Presentations

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)

Data

Quantity

• 2515 disk magazines
• 17578 single issues

Quality

• Curated subcollections belong to finished research projects. Data quality is higher.
• Open subcollections are curated in a continuous process. Data can be incomplete.
• Many issues still need to be checked, updated or merged.

Availability

• 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

Contact

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