Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Human skeletal collections. Development of Standards for the access to historical anthropological / anatomical research collections using the Freiburg Alexander Ecker collection as example

大学、博物馆和与保护文化遗产有关的机构都收藏了历史背景下的人类骨骼研究资料。这些收藏品对科学史有价值。此外，它们还为史前生物多样性的人类学重建和法医学提供了宝贵的研究基础设施，并在骨骼学方法的开发和测试中用作参考样本。在人类学中，哪种方法足以评估骨骼上的一组常规生物特征，这是有一定共识的。然而，这并不延伸到数据文件或现代方法。拟议的项目借鉴了保存在Uniseum弗赖堡的亚历山大·埃克·斯凯尔收藏品，以编制一份涉及人类学材料及其管理的数据项目录。该方案将采用标准化的数据收集码本的形式。数据将被组织在一个动态的开源数据库系统中，该系统允许后期扩展，以包括更多的研究结果和新的数字数据表示。数据库结构将足够灵活，可与超区域数据库连接，并能进行数据交换，甚至在语义不同的其他地方数据库之间进行数据交换。这项工作将与拥有历史人类骨骼收藏品的其他机构密切合作进行。

Research collections of human skeletons from historical contexts exist at universities, museums and institutions concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage. The collections are of value to the history of science. As well they provide valuable research infrastructures for the anthropological reconstruction of biodiversity in prehistory and forensics and are used as reference samples in the development and test of osteological methods. There is a certain consensus in anthropology which methods are adequate for assessing a conventional set of biological traits on the skeleton. This, however, does not extend to data documentation or modern methodical approaches. The proposed project draws on the Alexander Ecker Skeletal Collection, kept at the Uniseum Freiburg, to develop a catalogue of data items referring to the anthropological material and its curation. This scheme will take the form of a standardised codebook for data collection. Data will be organised in a dynamic open-source database system which allows for later extensions to include additional research results and new digital data representations. The database structure will be flexible enough to connect to supraregional databases and enable the exchange of data, even between other local databases with diverging semantics. This will be performed in close collaboration with other institutions holding historical human skeletal collections.