Making Ethnological Research Available: Digitisation and Indexing of Periodicals, Series, Monographs and Dissertations from 215 Years

受到先前社会与文化人类学专业信息服务（FID SKA）数字化活动的启发，例如德国人类学期刊文献数字化项目，各种机构和个人向FID SKA提出了进一步数字化措施的要求（其中包括Curare杂志和Berliner Blätter系列杂志的编辑，以及只有部分和不充分访问的新闻通讯的社团）。还有一个项目，旨在利用19世纪末和20世纪初的民族学文献来澄清在人类学考察中收集到的人类遗骸的来源)。此外，国际FID在跨区域提供历史性和部分独特的专著方面遇到了进一步的问题，这使得有必要考虑不同的交付方式。因此，本项目选择了三组民族学文献进行数字化：1。民族学期刊、系列出版物和主要包含文章的时事通讯，一方面，通过数字化可以更广泛地访问，但最重要的是，应该通过OCR和索引更好地进行搜索。2. 1920年以前出版的专著，由于保存原因，不能在柏林大学图书馆（和其他机构）馆际互借。通过数字化，柏林大学图书馆保存完好的大型旧专著收藏可以为德国和国外的年轻和/或设备较差的设施提供民族学和历史综合材料。3. 由于缺乏广泛的出版物，研究界无法获得的民族学德意志民主共和国的论文第一次可以为更大的读者提供。

Inspired by previous digitization activities in the Specialised Information Service Social- and Cultural Anthropology (FID SKA) - e.g. projects for digitising the German anthropological journal literature - various institutions and persons approached the FID SKA with requests for further digitisation measures (among others the editors of the journal Curare and the series Berliner Blätter, the societies with their only partly and inadequately accessible newsletters, and a project that aims to use ethnological literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to clarify the provenances of human remains that had been collected on anthropological expeditions). In addition, the FID encountered further problems in the supraregional provision of historical and partly unique monographs, which made it necessary to think about different ways of delivery.Therefore, three groups of ethnological literature have been selected for digitisation in this project: 1. Ethnological journals, series of publications and newsletters containing mostly articles which, on the one hand, are made more widely accessible through digitisation, but which above all should be made better searchable through OCR and indexing. 2. Monographs that were published before 1920 and are not available for interlibrary loan at the UB of HU Berlin (and other institutions) due to preservation reasons. Through digitisation the large, well-preserved old monographs collection of the universitylibrary of the HU Berlin could provide younger and/or less wellequipped facilities in Germany and abroad with access to ethnological and historical comprehensive material. 3. Ethnological GDR dissertations, which are not available to the research community due to the lack of widespread publications could be made accessible for a larger readership for the first time.