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

在大学、博物馆和有关文化遗产保护的机构中，存在着历史背景下的人类骨骼研究收藏。这些藏品对科学史很有价值。此外，它们还为史前生物多样性的人类学重建和法医学提供了宝贵的研究基础设施，并在骨学方法的开发和测试中用作参考样本。在人类学中有一定的共识，即哪些方法足以评估骨骼上的一套常规生物特征。但是，这并不适用于数据文档或现代方法。拟议的项目利用保存在弗莱堡博物馆的亚历山大·埃克骨骼收藏，开发一个涉及人类学材料及其管理的数据项目目录。该方案将采用标准化代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，包括额外的研究结果和新的数字数据表示。数据库结构将足够灵活，可以连接到跨区域数据库，并支持数据交换，甚至可以在具有不同语义的其他本地数据库之间交换数据。这项工作将与其他拥有历史人类骨骼收藏的机构密切合作。

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.