Digitization of the „Oekonomische Encyklopädie“ by Johann Georg Krünitz
Project Management: Universität Trier - Universitätsbibliothek Trier · Universität Trier - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH)
Sponsors: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Running time: -
Contact person (TCDH): Dr Thomas Burch
Research Area: Software Systems and Research Infrastructure, Digital Edition and Lexicography
Keywords: Retro Digitization, TUSTEP
Technologies:
Website of the Project: Johann Georg Krünitz Oeconomische Encyclopädie online
"Oekonomische Encyklopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats- Stadt- Haus- und Landwirthschaft“ (Economic encyclopedia or general system of state, city, house and agriculture) is the title of one of the oldest encyclopedias in the German-speaking area. The work, founded by Johann Georg Krünitz, appeared in 242 volumes from 1773 to 1858 and is one of the most important sources of scientific history for the time of change to an industrial society. The digitization project was implemented with funds from Trier University Library and made available to the general public online in the form of an SGML / XML-compliant and searchable electronic full-text version.
The encyclopedia, 90% in Fraktur, presented the Chinese data typists with new challenges. The typography used in the factory to identify structural features, some of which is expressed in only minimal changes, requires the greatest possible care and makes capturing the texts and the subsequent quality control extremely time-consuming.
Topics
Data Retrieval
Structures in terms of content and logic are developed formally and modeled independently of the system in data collections via computer-aided methods.
Digital Editions
Digital editions offer a wide range of options for processing sources scientifically and making them accessible in open access.
Full Text Digitization
High-quality full-text digitization in form of a diplomatic copy is a decisive requirement in order to store basic works in databases and, thus, to make them searchable and connectable.
Implementing Research Projects Digitally
We model text data and multimedia objects, apply our tools and establish procedures, design websites and ensure sustainable research data management.
Managing Research Data
You can achieve your research goals with professional data management.
Open Science
Open Access, Open Source, Open Data as well as other terms represent a research sector with transparent approaches and freely available results.
Project Management
We consider our work processes to be an interface between technical expertise, knowledge-based services and humanities research in the range of Digital Humanities.
Typography
The TCDH can look back on many years of experience in the field of typography - for print and for publication on the Internet.
XML / Web-Technologies
We consistently use generally accepted methods for the modeling, development and transformation of information.