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

合作项目“德语地区18世纪出版的印刷品的数字化和索引（VD 18）”旨在创建一个回顾性的18世纪德国国家书目。该项目为1701年至1800年之间印刷的德国材料编制索引，并为每个项目添加一个唯一的VD 18标识符。此外，印刷材料将在项目内数字化，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中进行导航（例如，通过DFG-Viewer，http：//dfg-viewer.de/en/code-the-project/）以及在章节标题和图标题中进行搜索。因此，VD 18项目与按时间顺序排列的前两个项目VD 16和VD 17相联系，这两个项目建立了16和17世纪的国家书目。VD 18的总库存量约为585，000张。这些数字项目可以通过联合目录、OCLC的WorldCat（http：//www.example.com）、Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke（数字化印刷品中央目录，www.zvdd.de）和Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek（德国数字图书馆，http://ddb.de）访问。哥廷根州立和大学图书馆计划为该项目提供另外1，200份印刷品和近600卷期刊。worldcat.org除此之外，图书馆还接管了该项目的管理，从而分担了与其他四个试点图书馆、联合目录总部、国家期刊数据库（ZDB）和DFG总部协调的责任。

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 585,000 prints. The digital items can be accessed via the union catalogues, OCLC’s 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 a further 1,200 prints and nearly 600 volumes of journals to the project. 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.