Records of the Federal Cabinet Online

Retro-Digitization of the Edition „Die Kabinettsprotokolle der Bundesregierung“ (1949–1956) and the Cabinet Committee for Economics 1951–1953

Cabinet records

Project Management: Bundesarchiv Koblenz

Sponsors: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Running time: -

Contact person (TCDH): Dr Thomas Burch

Research Area: Digital Edition and Lexicography

Keywords: Retro Digitization, TUSTEP

Technologies:

Website of the Project: „Die Kabinettsprotokolle der Bundesregierung“ online

In 1973, the federal government commissioned the Koblenz Federal Archives to continuously and scientifically edit the records of their cabinet meetings, which had previously been treated as classified information. In the meantime, 20 volumes have been published covering the period from 1949 to 1963. The aim of the project was the retro-digitization of the existing printed volumes from 1949–1956 and the cabinet committee for economics 1951–1953 and the indexing of the data in the form of a digital edition.

The TCDH organized and supervised the retro-digitization of the printed volumes, which were only available in book form, and also took on the preparation of the data for integration into the online publication.

Topics

Neural Networks

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.

Research laptop, old photos

Digital Editions

Digital editions offer a wide range of options for processing sources scientifically and making them accessible in open access.

manuscripts

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.

Technological concepts

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.

open science

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

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.

Data preparation

XML / Web-Technologies

We consistently use generally accepted methods for the modeling, development and transformation of information.