Digital collection of German colonialism

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The Digital Collection German colonialism is a freely accessible digital infrastructure for the digital development of colonial-era stocks. The source compilation provides an extraordinary resource for research into German colonialism .

meaning

Recently, Germany's colonialism has increasingly become the focus of academic interests. The Digital Collection of German Colonialism enables systematic, interdisciplinary research into historical, cultural, communication and scientific-historical implications of German colonialism, taking into account post-colonial developments. It addresses the desideratum of a reliable, scientifically usable digital data resource for the entire spectrum of digital postcolonial studies: history , social , political and economic sciences , culture , literature and linguistics .

Goals and implementation

The aims of the project are the digitization , electronic indexing and online presentation of sources on German colonial history in a virtual digital collection of German Colonialism , which is composed of holdings from the Bremen University Library and the Frankfurt University Library ; as well as the subsequent integration of the full texts into the CLARIN-D research infrastructure of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . This provides the basis for subsequent scientific research.

selection

Over 1,000 titles on different subject areas with a total of approx. 245,000 pages are integrated. The titles were published between 1884 and 1919 and thus come from the historical core period of German colonialism. The selection of titles reflects historical library relevance decisions by being based on the historical library catalogs . With this selection based on exemplarity, critical considerations of postcolonial studies are met and an assessment of the colonial historical representativeness of texts from today's perspective is avoided.

The titles ( monographs , edited volumes, journals ) with a total volume of over 245,000 pages will be digitized from April 2017 to March 2019 as part of a project funded by the German Research Foundation. The titles can be searched individually via a navigation bar with main and sub-entries. In addition, a search function is available, in which you can search for titles and chapter headings as well as authors kn.an The texts can be downloaded free of charge as PDF documents.

This means that important titles relevant to the history of German colonialism are now available digitally with full text for the first time and can be used regardless of location without damaging the originals. Project partners are the SuUB Bremen , the UB Frankfurt and the CLARIN service center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . The project was initiated, linguistically accompanied and supported by the Creative Unit 'Colonial Linguistics - Language in Colonial Contexts' (CULCC) at the University of Bremen (subgroup headed by Ingo H. Warnke).

literature

  • The Bremen volume catalog "Kolonialwesen". Edition, linguistic and library history commentary. Edited by Müller, Maria Elisabeth / Schmidt-Brücken, Daniel, de Gruyter 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital cultural heritage project information. In: Digital Cultural Heritage. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - Digital Collection of German Colonialism - Creation of a digital text collection and integration into the research infrastructure CLARIN-D. Retrieved on February 23, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ DFG portal GEPRIS. German Research Foundation, February 18, 2018, accessed on February 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Digital Collection of German Colonialism. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .