SGER: To Establish Links Between a Digitized Photographic Archive Dating From 1953 and a Computerized, Nominally Based, Demographic and Economic Data Base of a Village Community

这个探索性研究（SGER）项目的小额赠款将由Joel M. Halpern说，他在塞尔维亚的Orasac村进行了50多年的研究。除了大量的出版物外，他的研究还收集了4006张照片。Halpern将他的材料副本存放在人类关系区域文件（HRAF）;在那里，照片被数字化，并做了初步标记。现在，他将把照片数据库带回奥拉萨克，让社区中的老年人识别照片，在亲属关系网络中找到照片中的个人，并将它们与19世纪60年代的详细官方人口普查记录（土地所有权，税收记录和人口统计）联系起来。 最后，还将链接到描述性采访，录音带和现有的人种学电影有关的研究人员和社区。因此，该项目的目标不仅仅是更好地标记照片，而且还产生关于奥拉萨克亲属关系随时间变化的新信息，以及社会和经济变化的其他方面。该研究还将有助于分析，历史导向的科学民族学，并为美国和欧洲的后代研究人员保护这一独特的收藏品。 由于能够为该项目做出最大贡献的被调查者年龄较大，因此该研究符合收集短暂数据的紧急研究的SGER标准。

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) project will be undertaken by Dr. Joel M. Halpern, who has conducted research in the Serbian village of Orasac for over fifty years. In addition to numerous publications, his research has produced a collection of 4006 photographs. Halpern has deposited copies of his materials at the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF); there, the photos were digitized and preliminary labeling done. Now he will take the photo data base back to Orasac to have older members of the community identify the photos, locate the pictured individuals in kinship networks, and link them to detailed official census records (of landholdings, tax records, and demographics) that date back to the 1860s. Eventually links also will be made to descriptive interviews, tape recordings and to an existing ethnographic film concerning the researchers and the community. Thus the goal of the project is not simply to better label photographs, but also to generate new information about Orasac kinship changes structure over time, as well as other aspects of social and economic change. The research also will contribute to analytical, historically oriented ethnologies of science, and protect this unique collection for future generations of researchers, both in the United States and in Europe. Because the informants who can best contribute to this project are aging, the research meets the SGER criterion of urgent research to collect ephemeral data.