Specialised Information Service Social and Cultural Anthropology

• Applicants: Professorin Dr. Betina Hollstein; Martin Lee, since 12/2022
• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 285936034

The Specialised Information Service Social and Cultural Anthropology (FID SKA) sees itself as an interface between ethnological research and infrastructure development. It is joint initiative of the University Library of the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin and the Research Data Center Qualiservice of the University of Bremen and is advised by a scientific advisory board. Its primary goal is to advise and support ethnological research in all professional matters that require infrastructural support and go beyond local services, while at the same time promoting it through supra-regional access to information resources. This includes making ethnological research results more visible and usable in research databases as well as in possible digital research environments, taking into account subject-specific ethical questions. The FID addresses infrastructural needs from the communities, takes up trends in infrastructural developments and works on professional solutions for the ethnological disciplines. In this funding period, the following topics will be addressed in five fields of action, some of which build on the previous funding phase: 1. Scientific communication: The work of the FID SKA is regularly communicated, the communities are involved, and the results are fed back via a broad mediation and networking activity in the ethnological disciplines, the neighboring disciplines (e.g. via cooperation with neighboring FIDs) and in the library world. 2. Literature and information supply: Ongoing provision of electronic and analog information resources is accomplished through collection development and licensing of cross-regional licenses.3. Improved information and research access:3.1 EVIFA: The subject portal will be further expanded as an information platform and will provide both entry points for subject-specific research and overview information on the FID SKA's fields of work.3.2 Network Colonial Contexts: Infrastructural answers shall be developed to research-relevant questions of handling digitized materials from colonial contexts and their better bundling as well as international exchange on those materials.3.3 Subject-specific vocabularies and thesauri: Through the processing and analysis of thesauri and vocabularies, the further development of the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) with regard to ethnological terms will be pursued.4. Research data management: Workflows for the archiving and subsequent use of difficult types of research data (audiovisual data, internet-based data) will be developed and tested, and consulting activities will be expanded.5. Digital Humanities: Here, the possibilities of digital humanities' approaches for ethnological research are explored, documented, and possible consequences intensively discussed with the communities.

• DFG Programme: Acquisition and Provision (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Andreas Degkwitz, Ph.D., until 12/2022