last presentation of the session is Martin Breuer talking about the German Digital Library (DDB): having been around for 15 years, the federal/state/local imitative includes metadata records for over 66 million digital objects of significance to german cultural heritage. 26 million of these include access to a digital object. 824 German institutions contribute to DDB.
I'm surprised by the rate of ~40% of publically available digital objects. I would've expected that rate to be higher? (...)