Institution Name: The Royal Library Copenhagen
Institute Description: National library
Country: Denmark
Approximate Collection Size (up to): more than 1,000,000
Collection Scope: Aerial Photography Collection is part of Dept of Maps, Pictures and Photographs. Collects both vertical and oblique pictures. Have most of the produced images from danish firms and institutions private as well as official. More than 4.000.000 unique pictures.
Geographic and Time Coverage: Denmark including some pictures from Greenland and Faroe Islands and a small number of foreign pictures received from collections at the Geographical Institute Copenhagen University. Aerial photographs from 1913-2009.
Media Format: photographs prints, negatives, microfiche, digital images
Accessibility: Access by personal visit – access on request by e-mail and part of it by website: http://www.kb.dk/danmarksetfraluften/
Physical access by appointment. Everybody can ask for pictures - small fee for investigation is refunded if pictures are bought. Many different collections with individual acccess. Many digitization projects under ways. Some of the collections are already digitized. http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/luftfoto/index.html
Address: The Royal Library, PO Box 2149, DK 1016 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Website: http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/luftfoto/index.html and a new project with aerial photographs: http://www.kb.dk/danmarksetfraluften/
200.000 images will be scanned and then georeferenced by the public. Until now 115.000 aerial photographs have been moved.
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