Making Ethnological Research Available: Digitisation and Indexing of Periodicals, Series, Monographs and Dissertations from 215 Years

受专业信息服务社会文化人类学(FID SKA)以前的数字化活动--例如德国人类学期刊文献数字化项目--的启发，各种机构和个人与FID SKA接洽，要求采取进一步的数字化措施(除其他外，Curare期刊和BerlinBläter系列的编辑，以及一个旨在利用19世纪末和20世纪初的民族学文献澄清在人类学考察中收集到的人类遗骸的来源的项目)。此外，FID在跨区域提供历史和部分独特的专著方面遇到了更多的问题，这使得有必要考虑不同的交付方式。因此，该项目选择了三组民族学文献进行数字化：1.民族学期刊、系列出版物和通讯，其中主要包含一方面通过数字化更广泛地获取的文章，但最重要的是应该通过OCR和索引使其更容易被搜索。2.1920年前出版并因保存原因不能在胡柏林大学(及其他机构)进行馆际互借的专著。通过数字化，胡柏林大学图书馆保存完好的大型老专著藏品可以为德国国内外更年轻和/或不那么先进的设施提供获取民族学和历史综合材料的机会。3.由于缺乏广为传播的出版物而无法向研究界提供的民族学民主德国学位论文，可以第一次向更多的读者提供。

Inspired by previous digitization activities in the Specialised Information Service Social- and Cultural Anthropology (FID SKA) - e.g. projects for digitising the German anthropological journal literature - various institutions and persons approached the FID SKA with requests for further digitisation measures (among others the editors of the journal Curare and the series Berliner Blätter, the societies with their only partly and inadequately accessible newsletters, and a project that aims to use ethnological literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to clarify the provenances of human remains that had been collected on anthropological expeditions). In addition, the FID encountered further problems in the supraregional provision of historical and partly unique monographs, which made it necessary to think about different ways of delivery.Therefore, three groups of ethnological literature have been selected for digitisation in this project: 1. Ethnological journals, series of publications and newsletters containing mostly articles which, on the one hand, are made more widely accessible through digitisation, but which above all should be made better searchable through OCR and indexing. 2. Monographs that were published before 1920 and are not available for interlibrary loan at the UB of HU Berlin (and other institutions) due to preservation reasons. Through digitisation the large, well-preserved old monographs collection of the universitylibrary of the HU Berlin could provide younger and/or less wellequipped facilities in Germany and abroad with access to ethnological and historical comprehensive material. 3. Ethnological GDR dissertations, which are not available to the research community due to the lack of widespread publications could be made accessible for a larger readership for the first time.