Take Me and Make It Happen! How-to-Books from the Ferguson Collection and Corresponding Holdings at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel

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• 批准号: 528032894
• 负责人: Privatdozent Dr. Stefan Laube
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/528032894?language=en
• 关键词: Take; Me; Make; Happen; How

How to questions keep society going, allowing us to refine civilisation. Until the recent age of social media, printed guides, instructions and recipe compilations were the media of knowledge transfer that prevailed. The label 'Age of How to' has been given by scholars to the 16th century, when not only ephemeral printed products but also hardbound voluminous books with practical advice flooded the market. In this project, concrete-pragmatic knowledge as it found expression in How to formulas, is treated from a comparative, diachronic and cross-disciplinary perspective. The basis is a concrete selection of materials from the University of Glasgow Library (UoGL) and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB): notably treatises from the early modern period on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, glassmaking, ceramics, metallurgy and much more quench our curiosity. A 'histoire totale' of practical knowledge can be gleaned from their pages, but these sources need to be contextualised typologically and examined with the help of innovative methods from the fields of cultural studies and digital humanities. A cooperative constellation between the HAB and the UoGL creates the conditions conducive to this goal. The HAB, with its holdings that have grown over centuries and which, as a princely collection, has tended to neglect ephemeral book formats, meets the UoGL, whose magnificent Ferguson Collection has always paid attention to even the most inconspicuous book. While the HAB has been pioneering (since the 1990s) in successively digitising its historical holdings and making them accessible, even in 2023 the Ferguson Collection remains largely absent from the scholarly digital universe. This cooperation project has set itself the goal of (partially) remedying this omission. The benefits are therefore twofold: two complementary national academic cultures meet so as to bring together both indexing and applied research. The project has three cultural studies foci at its core - 'Issues of Practicability', 'Intermediality between Text and Image' and 'Materiality and Traces of Use' - through which questions about the main features of How-to books unfold. The project‘s scaffolding stands on the foundation of indexing with its three approaches: 'Corpus Building', 'In-depth Indexing' and 'Digitization'. A bespoke multilingual digital indexing tool will be developed for the How to book genre with its instruction manuals and recipes. Many of these books are completely inadequately indexed and therefore hardly identifiable. Since research and cataloguing take place simultaneously in this project, mutual and ongoing insights and perspectives are to be expected. Overall, in Glasgow-Wolfenbüttel collaboration, we aim to gain new insights into the early modern codification, dissemination, and application of practical knowledge through a combination of systematic analysis and indexing.

怎样的问题使社会继续前进，使我们能够完善文明。直到最近的社交媒体时代，印刷指南、说明和食谱汇编一直是知识传递的主流媒介。学者们给16世纪贴上了“如何做的时代”的标签，当时不仅有短暂的印刷产品，而且有实用建议的精装书大量涌入市场。在这个项目中，具体的实用主义知识从比较的、历时的和跨学科的角度来对待，因为它在如何公式中得到了表达。其基础是从格拉斯哥大学图书馆（UoGL）和赫尔索格·奥古斯特图书馆（Herzog August Bibliothek wolfenbttel） （HAB）中挑选的具体材料：特别是近代早期关于蒸馏、医药、染色、化妆品、玻璃制造、陶瓷、冶金等方面的论文，满足了我们的好奇心。可以从他们的页面中收集到实践知识的“历史故事”，但这些资源需要在语境中进行类型学分析，并借助文化研究和数字人文学科领域的创新方法进行检查。HAB和UoGL之间的合作星座为实现这一目标创造了有利条件。HAB的馆藏已经增长了几个世纪，作为一个高贵的收藏，它往往忽视了短暂的书籍形式，与UoGL相遇，UoGL的宏伟的弗格森收藏总是关注即使是最不起眼的书。虽然HAB（自20世纪90年代以来）一直在率先将其历史馆藏数字化，并使其易于访问，但即使在2023年，弗格森收藏也基本上没有出现在学术数字世界中。这个合作项目的目标是（部分地）弥补这一疏忽。因此，好处是双重的：两种互补的国家学术文化相遇，从而将索引和应用研究结合在一起。该项目以三个文化研究为核心——“实用性问题”、“文本与图像之间的中间性”和“物质性与使用痕迹”——通过这些研究，对How-to书籍的主要特征进行了探讨。项目的框架建立在标引的基础上，采用“语料库构建”、“深度标引”和“数字化”三种方式。一个定制的多语种数字索引工具将为“如何预订”这一类型的图书开发，包括其指导手册和食谱。这些书中的许多完全没有足够的索引，因此很难识别。由于研究和编目在这个项目中同时进行，因此可以期待相互和持续的见解和观点。总体而言，在格拉斯哥- wolfenb<s:1> ttel合作中，我们的目标是通过系统分析和索引的结合，获得对早期现代编纂、传播和应用实践知识的新见解。