Digitization and indexing of the Pomeranian Folk Song Archive

该项目的目的是对波美拉尼亚民歌档案文献中的歌曲文本和旋律进行完整的虚拟整合、索引、数字化、全文识别和数字化转换。这些歌曲是在1927年至1938年间收集的，目前约有14000首歌曲。其中大部分是纯歌词，尽管也包括大约2000个著名的手稿。时至今日，博美拉尼亚民歌档案馆的收藏代表了博美拉尼亚歌曲的最大和最全面的收藏。由于材料的性质，进一步的数字索引应该在通常的描述性索引的基础上进行，这考虑到歌曲的特殊特征，主要不是文本或图像绑定的媒体。因此，在手写文本识别（HTR）的帮助下，对整个文本库进行全文搜索和关键字定位将成为可能。此外，还计划对旋律进行数字索引，将符号转换为可听的形式，并允许在MusicXML的基础上导出旋律元数据。特别是歌曲的歌词与传统旋律的结合，让人能够洞悉与各自演唱情境相关的情感、传统和心态。这为民族学、德国研究、历史和音乐学提供了多角度的评价潜力。此外，相当一部分收藏品来自今天属于波美拉尼亚波兰部分的地方，从而开辟了跨国合作和联合评估的可能性。

The aim of the project is the complete virtual consolidation, indexing, digitalization, full text recognition, and digital transformation of song texts and melodies from the collection of documents of the Pomeranian Folk Song Archive. They were collected between 1927 and 1938 and present some 14,000 songs. The majority of these are pure lyrics, although about 2000 noted manuscripts are also included.To this day, the collection of the Pomeranian Folk Song Archive represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of Pomeranian songs. Due to the nature of the material, a further digital indexing should take place on the basis of the usual descriptive indexing, which takes into account the special character of the songs as not primarily text- or image-bound media. Thus, with the help of handwriting text recognition (HTR), a full text search and keyword spotting over the entire text stock will be made possible. In addition, a digital indexing of the melodies is planned, which converts the notation into audible form and allows an export of melody metadata on the basis of MusicXML.Especially the lyrics of the songs in combination with the traditional melodies offer insights into the emotionality, traditions and mentalities associated with the respective singing situation. This results in a multi-perspective evaluation potential for ethnology, German studies, history and musicology. In addition, a considerable part of the collection comes from places which today belong to the Polish part of Pomerania and thus open up a transnational possibility for cooperation and joint evaluation.