As part of the Durm project, we digitized a single volume from the historical German Handbuch der Architektur (Handbook on Architecture), namely:

E. Marx: Wände und Wandöffnungen (Walls and Wall Openings). In "Handbuch der Architektur", Part III, Volume 2, Number I, Second edition, Stuttgart, Germany, 1900.
Contains 506 pages with 956 figures.

The corpus developed in this project is made available under a free document license in several formats: scanned page images, Tustep format, and XML format. Additionally, an online version and tools for transforming the various formats are available as well.

The Durm project, carried out from 2004-2006 at the Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD) at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, investigated the use of advanced semantic technologies for cultural heritage data management. The goal was to support end users, in particular users from building history and architecture, with tools that go beyond classical information retrieval techniques. Experiments were carried out on the historical Handbuch der Architektur (Handbook on Architecture).