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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:
  • 🥨 German-language diskmags
  • Diskmags from the East-Central European Region
  • 🖼️ Gallery of selected diskmags
• or enter a 🔎 search term

News

• iRights.info released some helpful slides on legal implications of text mining diskmags
• Noerdman released a webcomic about our project in the GI magazine, see here!
• paper at DHd 2024 (28 Feb 2024)
• plenary talk at Edition als Transformation (22 Feb 2024)
• talk at 37C3: Das Diskmags-Projekt (28 Dec 2023)
• added an Italian Diskmag: RUN (21 Dec 2023)
• added a Serbian Diskmag: Amiga Front (14 Dec 2023)
• conference paper published: Diskettenmagazine als Frühes Kulturerbe (29 Nov 2023)
• updated the complete catalog (20 Oct 2023)

see also 📖👩‍🏫 Publications and Presentations

Data

• The catalog currently contains 2513 records of disk magazines.

• The single issues (more than 10000 records) will be added soon.

• 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

PLEASE NOTE

The current data release is stable and usable, but STILL PRELIMINARY.

A major update is expected for June 2024.

Contact

Please send any question to info💾diskmags.de.