Digitalisation and indexing of the alba amicorum collection of the Lower Saxony’s State Archives – Wolfenbüttel department

萨克森州国家档案馆（NLA）- Wolfenbüttel部门拥有303本家庭相册（也有：alba amicorum，Philotheken），是萨克森最大的早期现代友谊相册收藏，也是德国和欧洲最大的家庭相册收藏之一（持续时间：1572-1888）。家史书是一种集合形式的条目，作为一种高度复杂的文本和图片相互参照的安排，难以简单定义。家庭相册的保管者在其一生的某个阶段收集了来自同学、教授、要人、统治者和其他社会群体成员的文字和图片条目，这些条目大多是在旅行时收集的。一方面，这种做法是为了个人纪念，另一方面，一本相册amicorum作为一种艺术设计的可视化形式，展示了自己的关系网络，具有给第三方的推荐信的性质。哲学被许多科学学科所研究，可以为回答广泛的研究问题做出重要贡献。NLA - Wolfenbüttel部门的广泛收集提供了这种源类型的几乎原型但高质量的横截面。使祖先的书籍收藏可以获得是决定性地扩大现有资料来源的一个合适的方式，特别是在北方德国。为此，对彩色藏品进行了全面数字化，并对家庭登记册进行了深入索引，其形式是对所有条目进行单张索引。广泛的索引数据详细涉及数字化记录，并使人们能够快速、有针对性地访问这些记录。特别设计的索引网格考虑到研究的基本利益以及与权威文件的联网。由于这是档案领域的第一个此类企业，该项目将由一个有研究人员和科学基础设施各部门代表参加的大型会议结束。

The State Archives of Lower Saxony (NLA) – Wolfenbüttel department holds 303 family albums (also: alba amicorum, Philotheken), the largest collection of early modern friendship albums in Lower Saxony and one of the largest collections of family albums in Germany and Europe (duration: 1572-1888). The family history books are a collective form of entries which, as a highly complex arrangement of texts and pictures referring to each other, elude a simple definition. The keeper of a family album collected written and pictorial entries from fellow students, professors, dignitaries, rulers and members of other social groups during a certain phase of his life, mostly while travelling. On the one hand this practice served the purpose of a personal memoria, on the other hand an album amicorum functioned as an artistically designed visualization form of the own relationship network with the character of a letter of recommendation for third parties. Philotheques are examined by numerous scientific disciplines and can make an essential contribution to answering a broad horizon of research questions. The extensive collection of the NLA - Wolfenbüttel department offers an almost prototypical but high-quality cross-section of this source genre. Making the collection of ancestral books accessible is a suitable way of decisively expanding the existing body of sources, especially in northern Germany. For this purpose the complete digitalization of the collection in colour as well as a deep indexing of the family registers is carried out in the form of a single sheet indexing of all entries. The extensive indexing data refer in detail to the digitized records and enable fast, targeted access to them. The specially designed indexing grid takes into account the essential interests of research as well as the networking with authority files. Since this is the first enterprise of its kind in the field of archives, the project will be concluded by a larger conference with the participation of research and representatives of various branches of the scientific infrastructure.