Digitisation and Description of the Photo Collection originating from the Karlsruhe Research Center

卡尔斯鲁厄核研究中心成立于1956年（Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe，自1995年起：卡尔斯鲁厄研究中心/ Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe， 2009年与卡尔斯鲁厄大学合并为卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院[KIT]），拥有一个摄影文献单位。这个单元捕捉了该机构作为整个德国最重要的大型研究中心之一的视觉历史。这样创建的照片集共有21万张照片，现在是KIT档案馆的一部分。该收藏的10%的样本应被数字化、编目并在互联网上提供。照片显示了该机构的启动，核心活动和研究课题的变化，该机构主要从事民用核能的科学和技术基础工作，后来转向各种主题，主要用可持续能源，医学工程，材料科学，物理基础研究和环境研究等关键词来描述。在这个改造的过程中，建筑物以及科学设备已经被拆除或大规模改变，或计划在几年内发生。因此，这些照片集是研究中心以前已经消失或即将消失的外观的视觉编年史。这批藏品展示了研究中心工作所必需的全部物品。除了核反应堆、实验室、车间和用于处理放射性物质的热室（Heiße Zellen）的外部和内部视图外，还有用于储存放射性物质和辐射防护的设备的图片。除了核技术，收集图片的各种大小规模的欺骗包括计算中心。此外，还有主要研究人员、来自世界各地的重要访客和德国高级政治家的照片。科学的工作空间呈现出不同于今天设计的外观，展现出独特的美学。在KIT档案馆的主页上，通过德国数字图书馆及其档案部分archiportal D，将为对当代史和科技史感兴趣的学者提供描述性元数据和图片。除此之外，还有来自室内设计和视觉艺术领域的兴趣陈述。

The Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center founded in 1956 (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, since 1995: Karlsruhe Research Center / Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, in 2009 merged with University of Karlsruhe to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [KIT]) maintained a unit for photographic documentation. This unit captured the visual history of the institution as one of the most important large scale research centers throughout Germany. The photo collection thus created comprises 210,000 pictures in total and is now part of KIT Archives. A 10-per-cent-sample of this collection shall be digitised, inventoried and made accessible on the internet.The photographs show start-up, core activities and the change of research topics for this institution which primarily performed scientific and technological groundwork for the civil use of nuclear energy und thereafter shifted to a variety of topics mainly to describe with the keywords sustainable energy, medical engineering, material science, fundamental research in physics and environmental research. In the course of this transformation the buildings as well as the scientific devices have been dismantled or changed to a large extend or this is scheduled to happen within a few years. As a result the photo collection is a visual chronicle of the Research Centre’s former appearance that has already vanished or will vanish very soon.The collection pictures the entire range of items essential for the Research Centre’s work. Besides external and internal views of nuclear reactors, laboratories, workshops and hot cells (‘Heiße Zellen’) dedicated to the handling of radioactive materials there are pictures of devices for storage of radioactive substances and radiation protection. Asides nuclear technology the collection pictures all kinds of small and large scale decives including the computing centre. Furthermore there are pictures portraying principal investigators, important visitors from all over the world and high ranking German politicians. Scientific workspaces reveal an appearance different from today’s design and show peculiar aesthetics.With presentations on the homepage of KIT Archives, via the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and its archival section Archivportal D descriptive metadata and pictures will be provided for scholars interested in contemporary history as well as the history of science and technology. Beyond this there have been statements of interest from the field of interior design and visual arts.