SGER: To Establish Links Between a Digitized Photographic Archive Dating From 1953 and a Computerized, Nominally Based, Demographic and Economic Data Base of a Village Community

这个探索性研究小额赠款(SGER)项目将由Joel M.Halpern博士承担，他在塞尔维亚的Orasac村进行了50多年的研究。除了大量的出版物外，他的研究还产生了4006张照片集。Halpern已经将他的材料的副本存放在人类关系区域文件(HRaf)；在那里，照片被数字化，并进行了初步标记。现在，他将把照片数据库带回Orasac，让社区的年长成员识别照片，在亲属网络中找到照片上的个人，并将它们与可以追溯到19世纪60年代的详细的官方人口普查记录(土地占有、税务记录和人口统计)联系起来。最终，还将链接到描述性采访、录音带和现有的关于研究人员和社区的民族志电影。因此，该项目的目标不仅仅是更好地标记照片，还将生成有关Orasac血缘结构随时间变化的新信息，以及社会和经济变化的其他方面。这项研究还将有助于分析性的、面向历史的科学民族学，并为美国和欧洲的未来几代研究人员保护这一独特的收藏。由于对这一项目最有贡献的信息者年龄较大，这项研究符合SGER的紧急研究标准，以收集短暂的数据。

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) project will be undertaken by Dr. Joel M. Halpern, who has conducted research in the Serbian village of Orasac for over fifty years. In addition to numerous publications, his research has produced a collection of 4006 photographs. Halpern has deposited copies of his materials at the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF); there, the photos were digitized and preliminary labeling done. Now he will take the photo data base back to Orasac to have older members of the community identify the photos, locate the pictured individuals in kinship networks, and link them to detailed official census records (of landholdings, tax records, and demographics) that date back to the 1860s. Eventually links also will be made to descriptive interviews, tape recordings and to an existing ethnographic film concerning the researchers and the community. Thus the goal of the project is not simply to better label photographs, but also to generate new information about Orasac kinship changes structure over time, as well as other aspects of social and economic change. The research also will contribute to analytical, historically oriented ethnologies of science, and protect this unique collection for future generations of researchers, both in the United States and in Europe. Because the informants who can best contribute to this project are aging, the research meets the SGER criterion of urgent research to collect ephemeral data.