Digitization, virtual reconstruction and addition of granular metadata for the scientific journal Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum (1670-1791)

自1670年以来，德国科学院利奥波迪纳连续出版了《医学-物理科学院自然期刊》系列丛书。该丛书今天以《新利奥波迪纳学报》为名出版，被认为是世界上现存最古老的科学医学杂志。自创刊以来，该杂志一直为科学院的首要目标服务，即收集所有当代医学和科学知识。该杂志的卷形成了关于17世纪晚期及以后的科学史的独特来源，在这个时期，学者们为今天的医学和自然科学奠定了重要的基础。前100年出版的这些卷的一个特点是大量收集了科学、特别是医学观察报告（《观察》）。整个语料库包括大约16000份观察报告，大部分是拉丁文，包括大约8000份重印的变体和翻译。与早期的观察报告合集不同，这并不罕见，《珍品杂记》形成了一个具有百科全书范围的作品体，但以连载形式出版（连载百科全书）。在观察报告中，投稿人参考了该系列早先发表的报告，这些报告记录了科学医学知识不断变化的现状。该项目旨在以数字方式整合《杂记》和该系列的以下标题，直到1791年。该项目将改善当前科学史和科学院史研究的这一重要来源的获取和可引用性。在项目过程中，我们计划缩小高质量数字图像可用性方面的差距。然而，根据当前图书馆和信息科学的技术和专业标准，主要的贡献将是添加颗粒元数据。因此，个别观测将在区域和国家目录数据库中编入索引。最终产品将是一个方便的展示平台，包含所有已知的可以数字化的《古兰经杂记》卷，包括可用的翻译。这个展示平台将对许多不同的科学史研究项目至关重要。

The series Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum has been continuously published by the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1670. The series is being published today under the title Nova Acta Leopoldina and is considered the oldest still existing scientific medical journal in the world. Since its inception the journal served the overarching goal of the Academy, to collect all contemporary medical and scientific knowledge. The volumes of the journal form a unique source about the history of science of the late 17th century and onward, a time during which scholars laid important foundations for todays medical and natural sciences.A characteristic of the volumes published during the first 100 years is a large collection of scientific and in particular medical observation reports (Observationes). The entire corpus comprises about 16.000 observation reports, mostly in Latin, including about 8.000 reprinted variants and translations. In contrast to earlier collections of observation reports, which were not uncommon, the Miscellanea Curiosa form a body of works with encyclopedic scope, but published in a serial format (a serial encyclopedia). In the observation reports, contributors refer to earlier reports published in the serial and over time document the changing status quo of scientific medical knowledge.The project aims to digitally consolidate the Miscellanea Curiosa and following titles of the series until 1791. The project will improve access and citability for this important source for current research on the history of sciences and on the history of academies. During the course of the project we plan to close gaps in the availability of high-quality digital images. The main contribution however will be the addition of granular metadata, according to current technical and professional standards in library and information science. As a result, individual observations will be indexed in regional and national catalogue databases. The final product will be a convenient presentation platform containing all known volumes of the Miscellanea Curiosa that can be digitised, including available translations. The presentation platform will be pivotal for a number of different research projects on the history of science.