Open Access contributions in the humanities. The approach of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Christiane Fritze

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Projects in the fields of Lexicography Historical and critical editions Prosopography History of art Bibliography Philology

Projects in the fields of

Lexicography

Historical and critical editions

Prosopography

History of art

Bibliography

Philology

Telota Telota: T he e lectronic l ife o f t he a cademy Founded in 2002 Initiative to improve the visibility and impact of the research projects

Telota: T he e lectronic l ife o f t he a cademy

Founded in 2002

Initiative to improve the visibility and impact of the research projects

Open Access Publications Original scientific research results Raw data Metadata Source materials Pictoral and graphical materials Scholarly multimedia material

Original scientific research results

Raw data

Metadata

Source materials

Pictoral and graphical materials

Scholarly multimedia material

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)‏

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)‏

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

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

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?

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?

Thank you. For further information: www.bbaw.de www.telota.de www.deutsches-t extarchiv. de

Thank you.

For further information:

www.bbaw.de

www.telota.de

www.deutsches-t extarchiv. de