Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: The founding collection of the Deutsches Museum: Creating a digital index

该项目的重点是对德国博物馆创始收藏品中1800件文物中的500件进行原型索引和数字化。这批精选的数学和物理文物，由巴伐利亚科学院(Academy Collection)收藏，已积累了140多年，被认为是十八世纪和十九世纪德国最重要的科学藏品之一。它的组成和对象的范围体现了当时科学学科和仪器类别的非凡多样性。馆藏文献的扩展及其科学重新评估将为科技史研究人员和感兴趣的公众创造一个重要的信息资源。在该项目过程中，将开发一种索引方法，该方法也可应用于其他收藏，汇编科学史研究得出的与实物有关的信息。外部研究人员可以在一个免费的在线门户网站上查阅这些资料，从文物文件中挑选出来的信息将通过绘图功能进行调整，并转换为交换博物馆数据的欧洲标准。然后，门户内的数据将通过实施收获界面向国家和国际科技史上的储存库开放。

The project focuses on the prototypical indexing and digitization of five hundred of the 1800 artefacts held in the Deutsches Museum’s founding collection. This selection of mathematics and physics artefacts, collected by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Academy Collection), has been accumulated over 140 years and is considered to be one of the most important scientific collections of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Germany. Its composition and range of objects exemplify the extraordinary variety of scientific disciplines and instrument categories of its time. The extension of the collection documentation and its scientific reassessment will create an important information resource, both for researchers of the history of science and technology and for the interested public. In the course of the project, an indexing methodology will be developed that can also be applied to other collections, compiling object-related information derived from research in the history of science. This will be made accessible to external researchers in a free online portal, in which selected information from the object documentation will be adjusted via a mapping function and converted into a European standard for the exchange of museum data. The data within the portal will then be opened to national and international repositories in the history of science and technology through the implementation of a harvesting interface.