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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 (upcoming)
  • 🖼️ 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 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.