Presentation on the Digital Husserl project and infrastructure. l

1. digitalHusserl
A platform for digital access to the Husserl archives
Roxanne Wyns
Roxanne.Wyns@libis.kuleuven.be

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Details of the digitalHusserl project
• FWO medium-scale infrastructure project
• 4 years project: 01/05/2016 – 30/04/2020
• Partners: Husserl archives, LIBIS
• Main goals:
• Digital preservation of and virtual access to the archival collections
• A platform for collaboration and information sharing
DigitalHusserl

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Infrastructure
DigitalHusserl
Research
database
Public
portal
Digital
repository
Collection management system
• Metadata creation and management
• Protected environment
• Metadata is pushed to public portal
Long-term preservation of digitised
and digital born media
• Preservation of master files
• Creation of consultation copies
• Persistent identification
• Specialised viewers
Public Access portal / CMS
• Public access to digital
material
• Additional content such as
news, story's, …
• Collaboration options
Metadata
for publication
Descriptive &
administrative metadata
• Original lecture notes
• Correspondence
• Photographs
• Transcriptions
• Husserliana
• Husserl's library
• …

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Infrastructure components
DigitalHusserl
Research
database
Public
portal
Digital
repository
Metadata
for publication
Descriptive &
administrative metadata
• Original lecture notes
• Correspondence
• Photographs
• Transcriptions
• Husserliana
• Husserl's library
• …

5. The research database

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Details on the research database (1/3)
• CollectiveAccess software (Open source)
• Fully hosted and maintained by LIBIS on KU Leuven infrastructure
• Flexible and extendible data model
• Extensive collaboration tools
• Semantically meaningful relations between records

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Details on the research database (2/3)
• CollectiveAccess software (Open source)
• Fully hosted and maintained by LIBIS on KU Leuven ICTS
infrastructure
• Flexible and extendible data model
• Extensive collaboration tools
• Semantically meaningful relations between records
digitalHusserl data model

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Details on the research database (3/3)
Specific metadata for each material type
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9. The pilot project
A digitally reconstructed manuscript

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Creating a digital research object
F I 4
F I 16
B II
19
"Einleitung in die
Phänomenologie".
Vorlesungen aus dem
Sommer 1912
F I 4-4b
F I 4-5a
F I 4-5b
…
F I 16/35a
F I 16/35b
F I 16/36a
…
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B II 19/4a
B II 19/4b
B II 19/6a
…
Manuscript collection
(Digital research object)
Documents Archival folders

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Manuscript collection = Digital born object
"Einleitung in die Phänomenologie". Vorlesungen aus dem Sommer 1912
DigitalHusserl

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Adding related documents to the m. collection
"Einleitung in die Phänomenologie". Vorlesungen aus dem Sommer 1912
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Bidirectional links
“F I 4-4b” relates to "Einleitung in die Phänomenologie". Vorlesungen aus dem Sommer 1912
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Archival context of the documents
DigitalHusserl

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Document transcriptions
DigitalHusserl

16. The public access portal

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Home page (1/3)
DigitalHusserl

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Home page (2/3)
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Home page (3/3)
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Visualising a digital research object
F I 4
F I 16
B II
19
"Einleitung in die
Phänomenologie".
Vorlesungen aus dem
Sommer 1912
F I 4-4b
F I 4-5a
F I 4-5b
…
F I 16/35a
F I 16/35b
F I 16/36a
…
DigitalHusserl
B II 19/4a
B II 19/4b
B II 19/6a
…
Manuscript collection
(Digital research object)
Documents Archival folders

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Manuscript collection (1/2)
"Einleitung in die Phänomenologie". Vorlesungen aus dem Sommer 1912
DigitalHusserl

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Manuscript collection (2/2)
"Einleitung in die Phänomenologie". Vorlesungen aus dem Sommer 1912
DigitalHusserl

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Document
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Explore the collections
DigitalHusserl

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Lecture announcements
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Relations between records (1/2)
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Historic lecture event
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28. Current status and next steps

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Current status and next steps
• CollectiveAccess datamodel  finalised
• Omeka 1st version  ready for release
• Digital access to digitised archival folders  Coming soon
• OCR of Husserliana
• Annotation tools
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Thank you! Questions?
Roxanne Wyns - Roxanne.Wyns@kuleuven.be
DigitalHusserl