Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Digitalizing the historic cultural collections of the regional museums: furniture, textiles, pewter, tile and ceramic and popular printed images

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Uwe Meiners
• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: from 2012 to 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 204116182

The Cloppenburg Open-air Museum in Lower Saxony and the Schlossmuseum Jever [Jever Castle Museum] are two establishments rich in tradition with significant collections focusing on northwestern German cultural and regional history in particular. At both establishments, collections have been being digitally recorded and electronically cataloged for roughly ten years. The objective of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Project is: - The development of high quality sufficient for the standardization of the recording and documentation of the selected portions of the collection characteristic of the regional museums - The targeted development and application of specialized systems for these collections - The complete, geographic arrangement of the collections of object and their connections with the regional sources of information- And finally the provision of the comprehensive information related to the objects and their digital correlates for scientific research in the form of a portal.Both the filing establishments have large collections representative of the overall region with regards to the everyday life in the pre-industrial age, predominantly from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Initially, six divisions of the collections are planned for the exemplary development and testing of new procedures for the publication of the collections: furniture, textiles, tiles, ceramic, popular printed images and pewter. Both museums have collections that have been weighted differently in all six categories of objects, and can provide access to examples of a regional image of the everyday objectifications using the cooperative acquisition for scientific research.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Participating Person: Professorin Dr. Antje Sander