VD 18: Digitization and cataloging of 2.500 printings for a retrospective German national bibliography for the 18th century

• Applicant: Konstanze Söllner
• Subject Area: History of Science
• Term: from 2016 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 287397463

The aim of the project is to display about 2.500 digitized copies of significant printings of the 18th century. These printings are going to be digitized within two years according to the “DFG Practical Guidelines on Digitization” and indexed with bibliographic and structural metadata.The digitized printings will be made accessible on the online-platform VD 18 as well as by the Bavarian Union Catalogue and the OPAC of the University Library. They will also be included in the German Digital Library (DDB) and the Europeana by OAI-interface.About 44% of the printings to be digitized within the project, that is about 1.100 titles, are part of the “Trew Library” as a first analysis has shown. The library of Christoph Jacob Trew, an 18th century physician and scientist of Nuremberg, is supposed to be one of the most important natural history collections in Germany. The entire Trew Library including his collection of scholarly correspondence was transferred to Erlangen University in 1818.Based on their historical shelf marks, bookplates or other indications of provenance, the printings of the “Trew Library” will be virtually united in the OPAC as well as in a specific digital collection. The proposed project is going to add important printings to this collection.

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