Digitization of important German language periodicals in the Social and Cultural Anthropolo-gy/Folklore Studies

• Applicant: Professor Andreas Degkwitz, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Early Modern History
• Term: from 2013 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 218578068

The application is intended both to respond to the concerns raised in the evaluations to the first application and to further needs expressed in the scientific community, but also to broaden the portfolio of chosen periodicals for digitization. Furthermore, it aims to finish the digitization initiated by the initial application. This hasn't been possible after the establishment of the final workflow with the approved staff resources. The reasons for this are explained in detail in the interim report. For this purpose, in addition to the already considered eight core journals of folklore studies and ethnology, twelve other periodicals - mostly short-running historical journals - are included in the digitization project. To avoid debates, we focused on analog-only journal titles. The desire for greater involvement of the museum area led to the selection of two major journals in this field - Tribus and Baessler-Archiv. With the publisher Duncker & Humblot an agreement to digitize the journal Sociologus was achieved up to and including 2007. All of these journals will be freely available in an open online access through the freely accessible research platform of the virtual library of Social Anthropology - EVIFA - available as searchable PDF files and as images through the Intranda- and DFG-Viewer. In addition, links to each journal volume are going to be imported into inter-regional catalogs and databases. By hosting the journals on www.digi-hub.de, the server for the collections of digitized items of the Humboldt University, on the one hand the visibility in the research results of the usual internet search engines is ensured and secondly, the long-term security of the files is guaranteed at the same time. Through agreements with VG Wort, the publishers, and involved academic societies it is possible to digitize beyond the usual caesura of 1925. The publishers have conceded generous so called "Moving Walls" of three years (at least for Tribus and Baessler-Archiv with the exception of the fixed digitization stop at 2008 with the journal Sociologus due to economical interests of the publisher). Activation of digitized more recent vintages with some time lag. These agreements allow researchers to access rather recent literature; therefore do not limit research to a simple predominant historical perspective on ethnological research, but allow access for all research interests. The selection was made in consultation with the Scientific Advisory Board of the Special Collection.

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