Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Human skeletal collections. Development of Standards for the access to historical anthropological / anatomical research collections using the Freiburg Alexander Ecker collection as example

非文本对象的数字化/编目：人类骨骼收藏。

• 批准号: 248492242
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Ursula Wittwer-Backofen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Biologische Anthropologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/248492242?language=en
• 关键词: Digitisation; Cataloguing; non; textual; objects

Research collections of human skeletons from historical contexts exist at universities, museums and institutions concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage. The collections are of value to the history of science. As well they provide valuable research infrastructures for the anthropological reconstruction of biodiversity in prehistory and forensics and are used as reference samples in the development and test of osteological methods. There is a certain consensus in anthropology which methods are adequate for assessing a conventional set of biological traits on the skeleton. This, however, does not extend to data documentation or modern methodical approaches. The proposed project draws on the Alexander Ecker Skeletal Collection, kept at the Uniseum Freiburg, to develop a catalogue of data items referring to the anthropological material and its curation. This scheme will take the form of a standardised codebook for data collection. Data will be organised in a dynamic open-source database system which allows for later extensions to include additional research results and new digital data representations. The database structure will be flexible enough to connect to supraregional databases and enable the exchange of data, even between other local databases with diverging semantics. This will be performed in close collaboration with other institutions holding historical human skeletal collections.

大学、博物馆和关心文化遗产保护的机构都有历史背景下的人体骨骼研究藏品。这些藏品对科学史具有重要价值。它们还为史前和法医学中生物多样性的人类学重建提供了宝贵的研究基础设施，并被用作骨学方法开发和测试的参考样本。人类学界已就哪些方法足以评估骨骼上的一组常规生物特征达成了共识。然而，这并没有扩展到数据文档或现代有条理的方法。拟议的项目利用保存在弗莱堡大学的亚历山大·埃克骨骼收藏来开发一个涉及人类学材料及其管理的数据项目录。该方案将采用标准化码本的形式进行数据收集。数据将被组织在一个动态的开源数据库系统中，该系统允许以后的扩展，以包括更多的研究成果和新的数字数据表示。数据库结构将足够灵活，能够连接到跨区域数据库并实现数据交换，甚至在具有不同语义的其他本地数据库之间也是如此。这将与其他拥有历史人类骨骼收藏的机构密切合作进行。