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Open Access contributions in the humanities.

The approach of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Christiane Fritze

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Overview

• The Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities

• Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

• Open Access Publications• Telota• Two Examples• How to evaluate raw scientific data?

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The Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities

• Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

• Göttingen Academy of Sciences• Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities• Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig• Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities• Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz• North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences • Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg

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Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

• Founded by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1700

• Approximately 200 fellows• Staff of about 250 people• Main focus is on long-term research

projects reconstructing cultural heritage

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Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

• Projects in the fields of – Lexicography– Historical and critical editions– Prosopography– History of art– Bibliography – Philology

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Telota

• Telota: The electronic life of the academy• Founded in 2002• Initiative to improve the visibility and

impact of the research projects

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Open Access Publications

• Original scientific research results• Raw data• Metadata• Source materials• Pictoral and graphical materials• Scholarly multimedia material

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Example 1: The Archive Editor

• Is a tool for historians• Supports structured indexing of historical

files• Developed in cooperation with the project

Preußen als Kulturstaat (The Prussian State and Culture)

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Example 2: The German Text Archive

• Is founded by the German Research Foundation

• Aims to build a core corpus of German language

• Digitises 750 works from 1780-1900 (in the first project phase)

• Offers digital facsimiles and fulltext encoded in XML TEI P5 format

• Vision: the active archive

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Evaluation of raw data

• Open questions:– How to evaluate the quality and impact

of very diverse raw data?– How to credit contributions?– Does the humanities research change

because of the newly available raw data or scholarly multimedia material?

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Thank you.

For further information:• www.bbaw.de• www.telota.de• www.deutsches-textarchiv.de