Resource #20: Berlin.de
Site Name: Berlin.de (also any other city can be looked up by typing "city name".de like Hamburg.de, München.de, Köln.de, even deutschland.de)
URL: http://www.berlin.de/
Owner: Berlin.de under BerlinOnline Stadtportal GmbH & Co.
Type of Resource: Information on Berlin
Description: This website gives tons of information about Berlin, the capital of Germany. It can be read in German or English (by changing the language at top right), but the German version has much more information. Berlin.de is the official portal for the capital of Germany, Berlin. You can find information about politics, history, economy.
Uses: The best pages are under Politik, Verwaltung, Bürger and then Hauptstadt.
Usefulness: Good site for students to do research on Berlin.
Quality: The quality of this website is good. One does have to look around for the non-commercial pages
Authorship: BerlinOnline, but does have other commercial links and authors.
Point of View or Bias: none
Referral to Other Sources: links to commercial sites
Currency: 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 7 accessibility errors.
URL: http://www.berlin.de/
Owner: Berlin.de under BerlinOnline Stadtportal GmbH & Co.
Type of Resource: Information on Berlin
Description: This website gives tons of information about Berlin, the capital of Germany. It can be read in German or English (by changing the language at top right), but the German version has much more information. Berlin.de is the official portal for the capital of Germany, Berlin. You can find information about politics, history, economy.
Uses: The best pages are under Politik, Verwaltung, Bürger and then Hauptstadt.
Usefulness: Good site for students to do research on Berlin.
Quality: The quality of this website is good. One does have to look around for the non-commercial pages
Authorship: BerlinOnline, but does have other commercial links and authors.
Point of View or Bias: none
Referral to Other Sources: links to commercial sites
Currency: 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 7 accessibility errors.