Digitisation and Indexing of Printed Material Published in the 18th Century in the German-Speaking Areas (VD18)

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的总馆藏量约为565，000张，其中超过110，000张已在2009年至2012年的VD 18试点项目中编目和数字化。在VD 18项目主要阶段的当前第1部分中，将对另外40，000份印刷品进行编目和数字化。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。柏林洪堡大学图书馆计划作为合作伙伴向VD 18项目捐赠450册。worldcat.org这是它在该项目中的第二次应用。

The cooperative project “Digitisation and Indexing of Printed Material Published in the 18th Century in the German-Speaking Areas (VD18)” 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 VD16 and VD17, which set up national bibliographies for the 16th and 17th century. The total holdings of the VD18 amounts to approximately 565.000 prints, of which more than 110.000 have already been catalogued and digitised in the VD18 pilot project from 2009 to 2012. In the current Section 1 of the main phase of the VD18 project another 40.000 prints will be catalogued and digitised. 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).The Library of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin plans to contribute 450 volumes to the VD18-project as co-operation partner. This is its second application within this project.