Upwind and exciting discussions around the DFG project "Building an infrastructure for the implementation of subject-related accesses in the Archive Portal-D using the example of the Weimar Republic".
On 18 March 2019, project team representatives from the Federal Archives, the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg and FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure presented the project structure and initial results after a project period of about nine months in a one-day workshop at the Federal Archives in Koblenz.
Thanks to workshop participants from the archival sector in Germany and abroad, the digital humanities and historians, a broad scientific exchange took place. The morning session began with four statements by renowned experts: Prof. Frank Engehausen (History Seminar, University of Heidelberg), Dr. Andreas Braune (Weimar Republic Research Centre, University of Jena), Prof. Patrick Sahle (Cologne Center for eHumanities, University of Cologne) and Dr. Bettina Joergens (Landesarchiv NRW). In the afternoon, two working groups dealt with various individual aspects of the project.
The statements and working groups focused on the content of the statements and working groups:
- The "Weimar Republic" thematic classification: Discourse on the first systematization and indexing of processed data sets on the Weimar Republic
For the first results, a thematic classification was developed, divided into upper and lower categories and keywords (subject index). The classification of the super- and subcategories as well as the differentiation between subcategories and keywords was discussed. In addition to the historical content of the individual categories and keywords, the question of the specific assignment of archival records to individual categories was also addressed.