German History in Documents and Images/Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und Bildern: Creating a New Form of Scholarly Publishing by Transforming a Legacy Site

位于华盛顿特区的德国历史研究所（GHI）正在寻求对其旗舰数字项目“文件和图像中的德国历史”的重新概念、扩展和现代化工作计划的支持。GHDI是一本涵盖1500年至2009年德国历史的双语资料集。工作计划的核心是开发和实现一个基于eXist数据库和标量2.0表示层的新开源平台。新的平台将容纳当前历史学者所需要的材料类型（如多媒体资源），支持一系列新的历史叙事方法，并根据最佳实践丰富新的和现有的GHDI资源。结合重新设计的界面、一致的TEI标记和元数据模式，以及使用Scalar的数据定制，这个新的基础设施将促进一种创新的、符合历史文献的学术出版形式。这种新的出版形式将利用数字媒体的独特功能，同时肯定以书籍为基础的学术的最佳价值。eXist/Scalar 2.0平台将被设计为适合其他数字项目的可扩展模板，特别是在德国学术界。标量是专门为数字人文项目开发的，它是一个健壮的、开源的创作、编辑和发布平台，除其他优点外，它还为动态和富媒体内容提供了最佳支持。尽管标量在北美学术界越来越流行，但讲德语的人对它的使用仍然相对有限，尤其是因为当前应用程序框架中的大多数消息都是用英语固定的。因此，该研究所将进行标量接口的国际化工作，以消除迄今为止阻碍德国采用这个有前途的平台的那些限制。识别基于德国的平台重用案例是工作计划的关键组成部分，与DARIAH-DE合作保存原始的GHDI网站也是如此。在这里，GHDI将成为对保护遗产网站感兴趣的学者的榜样。GHI是国际公认的高级研究中心。它成立于1987年，是一个独立的非营利性基金会。自2002年以来，它一直是马克斯韦伯基金会的一部分。GHDI是德国人和北美人使用的一个著名的遗产网站，其重新启动将加强GHI作为大西洋两岸数字历史学家的中心的作用，并作为一个研究数字历史的机会和限制的地方。

The German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington DC, seeks support for a work program to reconceptualize, expand, and modernize its flagship digital project, German History in Documents and Images/Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und Bildern. GHDI is a bilingual source collection covering German history from 1500 to 2009. At the core of the work program is the development and implementation of a new open-source platform based on an eXist database and a Scalar 2.0 presentation layer. The new platform will accommodate the types of materials (e.g., multimedia sources) called for in current historical scholarship, support a range of new narrative approaches to history, and allow for the enrichment of new and existing GHDI sources in accordance with best practices. In combination with a redesigned interface, a consistent TEI markup and metadata schema, and data customization with Scalar, this new infrastructure will facilitate an innovative, historiographically responsive form of scholarly publishing for historical sources. This new form of publishing will draw on the unique affordances of digital media, while affirming the best values of book-based scholarship. The eXist/Scalar 2.0 platform will be designed as an extensible template suitable for other digital projects, especially within the German academic community. Specifically developed for use in digital humanities projects, Scalar is a robust, open-source authoring, editing, and publishing platform that, among other advantages, offers optimal support for dynamic and media-rich content. While Scalar is becoming increasingly popular among North American academics, its use by German speakers is still relatively limited, not least because most messages within the current application framework are hardwired in English. Therefore, the Institute will undertake internationalization work on the Scalar interface to remove those limitations that have hindered the adoption of this promising platform in Germany to date. The identification of German-based platform reuse cases is a key component of the work program, as is the preservation of the original GHDI website in cooperation with DARIAH-DE. Here, GHDI will serve as a model for scholars interested in preserving legacy websites.The GHI is an internationally recognized center for advanced study. It was established in 1987 as an independent non-profit foundation. Since 2002, it has been part of the Max Weber Foundation. The relaunch of GHDI, a well-known legacy site used by Germans and North Americans in approximately equal measure, will bolster the GHI in its role as a hub for digital historians on both sides of the Atlantic and as a place for examining the opportunities and limits of digital history.