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The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has just activated an image-based similarity search for bavarikon, Bavaria's digital treasure vault. The development from the library's own Munich Digitization Center (MDZ) searches through over three million image segments in the portal from photos, graphics, paintings and illustrations recognized through machine learning. Everybody interested in culture can search for motifs quickly and efficiently now, or can enjoy drifting from one image to another.

"WEITER WISSEN. Mit uns." – "KNOW MORE. With us." is the motto of a campaign initiated by a number of important scholarly libraries to raise awareness of their unique work for scholarship and society.