Take Me and Make It Happen! How-to Books from the Ferguson Collection Glasgow, and Corresponding Holdings at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

如何让社会保持运转，让我们能够提炼文明。直到最近的社交媒体时代，印刷的指南、说明书和食谱汇编一直是盛行的知识传播媒介。16世纪，学者们给出了“如何做的时代”的标签，当时不仅有短暂的印刷品，而且有实用建议的精装书充斥着市场。在这个项目中，具体的语用知识作为它在如何公式中的表现，从比较的、历时的和跨学科的角度来看待。基础是从格拉斯哥大学图书馆(UoGL)和赫尔佐格8月图书馆(HAB)的具体材料精选：著名的论文从早期现代时期的蒸馏，医学，染色，化妆品，玻璃制造，陶瓷，冶金和更多的满足我们的好奇心。可以从他们的页面上收集到实用知识的“历史故事”，但这些来源需要根据背景分类，并在文化研究和数字人文领域的创新方法的帮助下进行审查。HAB和UoGL之间的合作星座创造了有利于实现这一目标的条件。HAB拥有数百年来不断增长的藏书，作为一种君主收藏，它倾向于忽略短暂的图书格式，与UoGL相遇，其宏伟的弗格森收藏一直关注即使是最不起眼的书籍。虽然民政事务局(自20世纪90年代以来)一直在不断地将其历史藏品数字化并使其可供使用，但即使到了2023年，弗格森藏品仍基本上没有出现在学术数字宇宙中。这一合作项目为自己设定了(部分)弥补这一疏漏的目标。因此，好处是双重的：两种互补的国家学术文化相遇，从而将索引和应用研究结合在一起。该项目的核心是三个文化研究焦点--“实用性问题”、“文字和图像之间的中间性”和“物质性和使用痕迹”--通过这些问题，我们可以了解书籍的主要特点。该项目的脚手架建立在索引的基础上，有三种方法：“语料库建设”、“深度索引”和“数字化”。将为如何使用图书类型开发一个定制的多语言数字索引工具，其中包括说明手册和食谱。这些书中的许多完全没有建立充分的索引，因此很难识别。由于研究和编目在这个项目中同时进行，相互的和持续的见解和观点是可以期待的。总体而言，在格拉斯哥-沃尔芬布特尔的合作中，我们的目标是通过系统分析和索引相结合的方式，对实用知识的早期现代编纂、传播和应用获得新的见解。

How to questions keep society going, allowing us to refine civilisation. Until the recent age of social media, printed guides, instructions and recipe compilations were the media of knowledge transfer that prevailed. The label 'Age of How to' has been given by scholars to the 16th century, when not only ephemeral printed products but also hardbound voluminous books with practical advice flooded the market. In this project, concrete-pragmatic knowledge as it found expression in How to formulas, is treated from a comparative, diachronic and cross-disciplinary perspective. The basis is a concrete selection of materials from the University of Glasgow Library (UoGL) and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB): notably treatises from the early modern period on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, glassmaking, ceramics, metallurgy and much more quench our curiosity. A 'histoire totale' of practical knowledge can be gleaned from their pages, but these sources need to be contextualised typologically and examined with the help of innovative methods from the fields of cultural studies and digital humanities. A cooperative constellation between the HAB and the UoGL creates the conditions conducive to this goal.The HAB, with its holdings that have grown over centuries and which, as a princely collection, has tended to neglect ephemeral book formats, meets the UoGL, whose magnificent Ferguson Collection has always paid attention to even the most inconspicuous book. While the HAB has been pioneering (since the 1990s) in successively digitising its historical holdings and making them accessible, even in 2023 the Ferguson Collection remains largely absent from the scholarly digital universe. This cooperation project has set itself the goal of (partially) remedying this omission. The benefits are therefore twofold: two complementary national academic cultures meet so as to bring together both indexing and applied research. The project has three cultural studies foci at its core - 'Issues of Practicability', 'Intermediality between Text and Image' and 'Materiality and Traces of Use' - through which questions about the main features of How to books unfold. The project's scaffolding stands on the foundation of indexing with its three approaches: 'Corpus Building', 'In-depth Indexing' and 'Digitisation'. A bespoke multilingual digital indexing tool will be developed for the How-to book genre with its instruction manuals and recipes. Many of these books are completely inadequately indexed and therefore hardly identifiable. Since research and cataloguing take place simultaneously in this project, mutual and ongoing insights and perspectives are to be expected. Overall, in Glasgow-Wolfenbüttel collaboration, we aim to gain new insights into the early modern codification, dissemination, and application of practical knowledge through a combination of systematic analysis and indexing.