Digitalisation and indexing of the alba amicorum collection of the Lower Saxony’s State Archives – Wolfenbüttel department

下萨克森州档案馆(NLA) - wolfenbttel部门拥有303本家庭相册（也：alba amicorum， Philotheken），是下萨克森州最大的早期现代友谊相册收藏，也是德国和欧洲最大的家庭相册收藏之一（持续时间：1572-1888）。家族史书是一种集合形式的条目，作为一种高度复杂的文字和图片相互参照的安排，难以简单定义。他收藏了一本家庭相册，收集了他一生中某个阶段的同学、教授、政要、统治者和其他社会团体成员的文字和图片，大部分是在旅行期间收集的。一方面，这种做法是为了个人的记忆，另一方面，一张专辑作为一种艺术设计的可视化形式，以自己的关系网络为特征，为第三方提供推荐信。哲学受到许多科学学科的检验，可以对回答广泛的研究问题作出重要贡献。广泛收集的NLA - wolfenb<s:1> tel部门提供了一个几乎原型，但高质量的横截面这种来源流派。使祖先典籍的收藏可访问是决定性地扩大现有资源体的合适方式，特别是在德国北部。为此目的，以单页索引的形式对所有条目进行了彩色馆藏的完全数字化以及家庭登记册的深度索引。广泛的索引数据详细地参考了数字化记录，并使它们能够快速、有针对性地访问。特别设计的索引网格既考虑了研究的本质利益，又考虑了与权威文件的联网。由于这是档案领域的第一个此类项目，该项目将在一个更大的会议上结束，科学基础设施各部门的研究人员和代表将参加会议。

The State Archives of Lower Saxony (NLA) – Wolfenbüttel department holds 303 family albums (also: alba amicorum, Philotheken), the largest collection of early modern friendship albums in Lower Saxony and one of the largest collections of family albums in Germany and Europe (duration: 1572-1888). The family history books are a collective form of entries which, as a highly complex arrangement of texts and pictures referring to each other, elude a simple definition. The keeper of a family album collected written and pictorial entries from fellow students, professors, dignitaries, rulers and members of other social groups during a certain phase of his life, mostly while travelling. On the one hand this practice served the purpose of a personal memoria, on the other hand an album amicorum functioned as an artistically designed visualization form of the own relationship network with the character of a letter of recommendation for third parties. Philotheques are examined by numerous scientific disciplines and can make an essential contribution to answering a broad horizon of research questions. The extensive collection of the NLA - Wolfenbüttel department offers an almost prototypical but high-quality cross-section of this source genre. Making the collection of ancestral books accessible is a suitable way of decisively expanding the existing body of sources, especially in northern Germany. For this purpose the complete digitalization of the collection in colour as well as a deep indexing of the family registers is carried out in the form of a single sheet indexing of all entries. The extensive indexing data refer in detail to the digitized records and enable fast, targeted access to them. The specially designed indexing grid takes into account the essential interests of research as well as the networking with authority files. Since this is the first enterprise of its kind in the field of archives, the project will be concluded by a larger conference with the participation of research and representatives of various branches of the scientific infrastructure.