Digital Collection German Colonialism - Establishment of a digital collection of texts and integration in the research Infrastructure CLARIN-D

• Applicants: Privatdozent Dr. Alexander Geyken; Maria Elisabeth Müller; Daniela Poth, since 7/2020
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2017 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 324473798

This proposal aims at the establishment of a Digital Collection of German Colonialism (Digitale Sammlung Deutscher Kolonialismus; DSDK), which shall base on the holdings of the State and University Library Bremen (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen; SuUB Bremen) and the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg Frankfurt/Main (UB Frankfurt). The OCR fulltexts will be integrated in the virtual research infrastructure CLARIN-D of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (with participation of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities; BBAW). With this project we plan to set up a digital collection on the German colonial period (1884 - 1919) for the first time. This collection will comply with requirements of theoretical problems and computer aided methodologies of different disciplines. This scientifically profound collection of colonial texts fulfills an urgent desideratum within the sciences. The digitized images, which submittals are quite often in Gothic type, will be processed with an optical character recognition (OCR). The fulltext will be improved and integrated in CLARIN-D. This will facilitate the application of computer aided scientific methodologies. The Digital Collection of German Colonialism will be presented in modern onlineportals at the SuUB Bremen and the UB Frankfurt (http://brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/, http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/) that instantiate all expected features; e.g.: access by title, year of publication and structural metadata as well as search functionality via OCR fulltext. The joint software base guarantees that structural metadata of the titles are searchable in both libraries. Standardized interfaces guarantee the connection to metadata portals like Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, the Europeana as well as to further relevant virtual specialized libraries and catalogues. We will comply with all standards of the Praxisrichtlinien Digitalisierung of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Dr. Heiner Schnelling, until 6/2020