VD 18: Digitisation and Indexing of Printed Material Published in the 18th Century in the German-Speaking Areas (VD 18)

18世纪在德语地区出版的印刷材料数字化和索引合作项目(VD18)旨在创建18世纪德国国家书目的追溯性。该项目为1701至1800年间印刷的德国材料编制了索引，并为每个项目添加了唯一的VD18标识符。此外，印刷材料将在该项目中数字化，并将在互联网上免费提供。添加文档结构的详细元数据将有助于在数字文档内导航(例如，通过DFG查看器、http://dfg-viewer.de/en/regarding-the-project/)以及在章节标题和附图标题内搜索)。因此，VD18项目与之前的两个项目VD16和VD17按时间顺序联系在一起，这两个项目建立了16世纪和17世纪的国家书目。VD18的总持有量约为565,000张，其中110,000多张已经在2009年至2012年的VD18试点项目中编目和数字化。在目前的VD18项目主要阶段的第一部分，将对另外40 000份印刷品进行编目和数字化。这些数字项目可通过联合目录、OCLCS WorldCat(http://worldcat.org)，the Zentales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke)(中央数字印刷品库存，www.zvdd.de)和德国数字图书馆(德国数字图书馆，http://ddb.de).)获取哥廷根州立大学图书馆计划在VD18的第二个主要阶段为该项目提供8,000份印刷品。除此之外，该图书馆还接管了该项目的管理，从而与其他四个试点机构--图书馆、联合目录总公司、国家期刊数据库(ZDB)和DFG总公司共同承担协调的责任。

The cooperative project Digitisation and Indexing of Printed Material Published in the 18th Century in the German-Speaking Areas (VD 18) aims at creating a retrospective German national bibliography of the 18th century. The project indexes German material printed between 1701 and 1800 and adds a unique VD18-identifier to each item. Furthermore, the printed material is going to be digitised within the project and will be made freely available on the internet. Adding detailed metadata of the document structure will facilitate navigating within the digital document (e.g. via the DFG-Viewer, http://dfg-viewer.de/en/regarding-the-project/) as well as searching within chapter headings and figure captions. Thus, the VD 18 project ties in with the two chronologically preceding projects VD 16 and VD 17, which set up national bibliographies for the 16th and 17th century . The total holdings of the VD 18 amounts to approximately 565,000 prints, of which more than 110,000 have already been catalogued and digitised in the VD18 pilot project from 2009 to 2012. In the current Section 1 of the main phase of the VD 18 project another 40,000 prints will be catalogued and digitised. The digital items can be accessed via the union catalogues, OCLCs WorldCat (http://worldcat.org), the Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke (Central Inventory of Digitised Prints, www.zvdd.de), and the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library, http://ddb.de). Göttingen State and University Library plans to contribute 8,000 prints to the project during the 2 main phase of VD 18. In addition to this, the library has taken over the management of the project, thus sharing the responsibility for the coordination with the four other pilot-libraries, the head offices of the union catalogues, the National Periodicals Database (ZDB) and the DFG Head Office.