Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Valorisation and digitisation of the recordings of the Prussian Phonographic Commission 1915-1918

“皇家普鲁士留声机委员会”成立于1915年，目的是记录德国战俘营中外国士兵的语言和音乐。该委员会于1915年底开始工作。不同语言、民族学和音乐的专家参与其中，心理学教授、柏林录音档案馆创始人卡尔·斯顿夫成为该委员会的主任。在柏林民族学博物馆柏林录音档案馆的藏品中，德国集中营监狱蜡瓶上的1022份录音是历史上最大的收藏品。声音文件包含专门录制的音乐，并辅之以适当的文件(录音日志、原始语言和翻译的歌曲文本、图纸、照片和通信)。这些录音描绘了不同的种族群体，最好是来自欧洲国家及其前海外领土。该项目的目标是对录音委员会的录音以及所有相关的书面文件进行估价和数字化，并将蜡筒上的数字化录音与柏林洪堡大学Lautarchiv收藏的相应光盘合并在一起。所有录音将在一个联合互联网门户网站上向公众提供。

The „Royal Prussian Phonographic Commission” was launched in 1915 to document the language and music of foreign soldiers in German prison camps. The commission started its work in the end of 1915. Specialists for different languages, ethnology and music were involved, and Carl Stumpf, professor of psychology and founder of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archive, became the commission’s director. Among the holdings of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archive in the Ethnological Museum Berlin, the 1022 recordings on wax cylinders of prisonars in German camps represent the largest historical collection. The sound files contain exclusively recorded music that is supplemented with appropriate documentation (recording logs, song texts in original language and translation, drawings, photographs and correspondence). The recordings portray a variety of ethnic groups, preferably from European countries and their former overseas territories. The project’s goal is to valorise and digitize the recordings, as well as all associated written documents, of the Phonographic Commission, and to bring together the digitized recordings on wax cylinders with the corresponding discs that are part of the holdings of the Lautarchiv of Humboldt-University in Berlin. All recordings will be made available to the public in a joint internet portal.