The Bomber's Baedeker. A Guide to the Economic Importance of German Towns and Cities

The Bomber's Baedeker

The two-volume printed work “The Bomber's Baedeker. A Guide to the Economic Importance of German Towns and Cities” was produced during the Second World War by the British Foreign Office and the Ministry of Economic Warfare. It lists towns and cities of the German Reich with more than a thousand inhabitants and information on their war-related infrastructure, industrial and production facilities. Only four verified copies still exist worldwide and none of them have been accessible for scholarly digital use until now. “The Bomber's Baedeker” was re-discovered in 2019 in the library of the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), digitised in cooperation with the Mainz University Library and made accessible and processed by the Digital Historical Research | DH Lab and the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences as part of a cross-institutional cooperation (including courses with students) so that “The Bomber's Baedeker” can now be used, analysed and processed as an open, machine-readable data source in compliance with FAIR principles.

《贝德克尔轰炸机指南》（The Bomber's Baedeker）

两卷本印刷作品《贝德克尔轰炸机指南：德国城镇经济重要性指南》由英国外交部与经济作战部在第二次世界大战期间编纂。该书收录了德意志国境内人口逾千的城镇，以及与其相关的战争基础设施、工业与生产设施信息。目前全球仅存4部经认证的原版藏品，此前从未有任何一部可供学术数字化研究使用。

2019年，该指南于莱布尼茨欧洲历史研究所（Leibniz Institute of European History, IEG）的馆藏图书馆中被重新发现；随后项目团队与美因茨大学图书馆合作完成数字化工作，并依托跨机构合作框架（包含面向学生的课程项目），由数字历史研究实验室（DH Lab）与达姆施塔特应用技术大学完成数据的处理与公开。如今，《贝德克尔轰炸机指南》可作为遵循FAIR原则的开放机器可读数据源，供研究者使用、分析与加工。