In 2010, the Deutsche Biographie has been made available to the German-speaking world as a historical-biographical information system, enabling scholars to conduct scientific research. Offering certified facts, the data system contains at its core approximately 49,000 articles as published in the encyclopaedias "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie" (ADB; General German Biography) and "Neue Deutsche Biographie" (NDB; New German Biography; volumes 1 to 25, A to Tecklenborg). The current state of expansion, financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Research Foundation) from 2014 till 2016, provides valid information on more than 730,000 individuals.

By using authority data (Normdaten), it is now possible to access numerous more sources such as encyclopaedias, scientific sources, literature, objects/ oeuvres, and portraits directly on the Internet. Already available in the past, the numerous visual representations of sources have been massively extended. The project's organizers thus react to the current rapid increase of network analysis. In addition, the geographical functions necessary when doing map work have also been expanded (subjects such as places of birth or death, geographic data relating to individuals' activities, and burial sites can be selected and combined freely).

The project's high attractiveness is illustrated by continuously rising user numbers, with "unique visitors" having exceeded the mark of 1 million for the first time during a year in September 2016.

The current state of the project allows for further development of the Deutsche Biographie, eventually turning it into a scientific lab. The final goal is to provide future scholars with data samples from the Deutsche Biographie, enabling them to pursue their projects on an individual as well as collaborative basis. The scientific lab is currently subject of a new application for third party funds.

Deutsche Biographie:

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de

Cooperation with

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library)

Bundesarchiv (Federal Archives)

Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach

Deutsches Museum München

Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv

Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg.

Deutsches Filminstitut    -   (filmportal.de)  

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz   -   (Kalliope)

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
(Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)   -   (Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte) - (Alexander von Humboldt auf Reisen)

Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
(Saxon State and University Library Dresden)   -   (Deutsche Fotothek) - (Digitale Sammlungen, Digital Collections)

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Baden-Württemberg LEO-BW, Regional Information System for Baden-Wuerttemberg) - (Archivportal-D)

Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz   -  (Regesta Imperii) - (Forschungsstelle für Personalschriften) - (Controversia et Confessio)

Zentrum für Historische Friedensforschung an der Universität Bonn   -   (Acta Pacis Westphalicae digital) 

Akademie der bildenden Künste München   -   (Matrikelbücher)

Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz / Rheinische Landesbibliothek   -   (Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank / Rhineland-Palatinate Persons Database)

Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe / LWL-Institut für westfälische Regionalgeschichte   -   (Westfälische Geschichte / History of Westphalia)

Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde   -   (Sächsische Biografie / Saxonian Biography)