Cataloguing and providing digitized historical pharmacy questionnaires and correspondence of the Vester Archives, 1925-55

赫尔穆特·维斯特博士的维斯特药房历史档案(1913-2001)是研究受过良好教育的中产阶级药剂师群体的历史和网络的杰出资源。它包括全面的调查答复和广泛收集的相关数据。1925/26年进行的第一次调查的标准化问卷涉及药店的历史(名称、设立、地点、所有权等)。第二次调查是在20世纪40年代/50年代进行的，包括一份关于传记数据(教育、就业等)的额外标准化问卷。从医药新闻剪报、药房目录或二手文献收集的相关数据从1865年到1985年不等。这些藏品由500,000张目录卡编制索引，按传记和地形图排序。该项目旨在记录关于8.000份调查答复的元数据以及关于药房(公司机构)和药剂师(个人)的问卷数据。对于元数据和历史/传记数据的编码，该项目将利用Kalliope联合目录的数据基础设施，这是一项为个人文件和手稿收藏等档案资源提供的编目服务。它基于这两种类型的数据的标准，并为德国国家图书馆的综合权威文件做出贡献。此外，还将在网上提供带有附件和索引卡的数码化问卷。作为该项目的结果，问卷的数据将在网上提供，包括相关的通信和证据。它将大大增加和补充由综合当局档案保存的关于药剂师的作者或记者的记录，从而支持图书馆和档案馆重复使用数据。不明确或不完整的问卷数据将通过收集相关来源，特别是姓名和日期(居住日期、成立日期)获得的信息来部分补充。制药行业在19世纪和20世纪受到了科学、经济和政治变革的显著影响。这份独特的清单不仅提供了药剂师家庭的传记数据--一个教育精英，从中涌现出了著名的科学家、工业家、创意人员或赞助人--而且这些数据还支持对制药、经济或城市历史的研究。有了卡利奥普联合目录的标准化数据编码能力，这些数据也将可用于今后的研究项目，特别是依靠统计和网络分析。

The Vester Archives for the History of Pharmacies of Dr. Helmut Vester (1913-2001) is an outstanding resource for studying history and networks of the well-educated, middle-class group of pharmacists. It consists on comprehensive survey responses and an extensive collection of related data. The standardized questionnaire of the first survey, conducted in 1925/26, related to the history of pharmacies (name, establishment, location, ownership, etc.). The second survey, conducted in the 1940s/50s, included an additional standardized questionnaire regarding biographical data (education, employment, etc.). The collection of related data from pharmaceutical press clippings, pharmacy directories, or secondary literature, is ranging from 1865 to 1985. The collection is indexed by 500,000 catalog cards, sorted biographically and topographically. The project is aiming at recording the metadata about the 8.000 survey responses and the questionnaire data about pharmacies (corporate bodies) and pharmacists (persons). For encoding both metadata and historical/biographical data, the project will make use of the data infrastructure of the Kalliope Union Catalog, a cataloging service for archival resources like personal paper and manuscript collections. It is based on standards for both types of data and contributes to the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library. Moreover, digitized questionnaires with enclosures and index cards will be provided online.As a result of the project, data from the questionnaires including related correspondence and evidence will be available online. It will significantly add and complement records about authors or correspondents who were pharmacists maintained by the Integrated Authority File, and thus support reuse of data by libraries and archives. Ambiguous or incomplete data of questionnaires will be partly supplemented by information available through the collection of related sources, particularly names and dates (living dates, establishment). The pharmaceutical profession has eminently been affected by scientific, economic, and political changes in the 19th and 20th century. This unique inventory provides not only biographical data of pharmacist families – an educational elite, from which famous scientists, industrialists, creatives, or patrons have emerged – but the data also support research on pharmaceutical, economic or urban history. With the standardized data encoding capabilities of the Kalliope Union Catalog the data will be thus also available for future research projects relying especially on statistics and network analysis.