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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
  • East-Central European Diskmags
  • Russian-language Diskmags
  • 🖼️ Gallery of selected diskmags
• or enter a 🔎 search term

News

• Curated subset of magazines from East-Central Europe is now available here
• 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.

• 18107 single issues have been 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

PLEASE NOTE

The current data release is stable and usable. The entries of the subcollections have the best data quality.

The entries for most of the other issues still need to be updated. An update is expected within September 2024.

Contact

Please send any question to info💾diskmags.de.