Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Digital Portal Everyday Life in the Rhineland - Cultural Changes in rural areas 1900 - 2000

• Applicants: Dr. Eckhard Bolenz; Michael Kamp; Dr. Josef Mangold
• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: from 2012 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 203562753

Aim of the project is to prepare and make accessible for academic use heterogeneous and in some cases previously non-tapped existing sources relating to cultural changes in everyday life in the 20th century. This aim will be achieved by compiling an open access data bank which can be harvested via supra-regional portals and the digital archive NRW. The selected sources originate from the material available at the LVR-Freilichtmuseum Kommern (open-air museum), the LVR-Freilichtmuseum Lindlar (open-air museum) and the LVR-Institut für Landeskunde und Regionalgeschichte (Bonn) (Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History). They comprise sources relating to specific objects (items belonging to museums), audio-visual sources, (photos, films) and text-based sources (surveys, interviews, media reports) from the Rhineland which serve as a framework for an exemplary region. This co-operation project will for the first time enable the databases relating to regional material and everyday life culture which belong to the institutions involved in the project to be netted and consequently make them available for academic research. The key topics of the data to be processed in the submitted pilot phase are:a) Fundamental practices of everyday life: living and housekeeping, tradesb) Handling and constructing (traditional) landscapes in everyday life culture ¿ changing practices in agriculture.The source material will be developed via a data bank, supplemented with additional details and netted via specific links. The data sets developed in this way will therefore provide interdisciplinary potential for, amongst other things, research into social and cultural anthropology, social history, ethnology, scientific history and technical history.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)