A joint project of the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS) and Programmfabrik GmbH :
Since the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS) already operates an easydb to manage its own holdings, we are looking forward to another joint project:
With support from the “Innovation Program for Business Models and Pioneering Solutions (IGP)” of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK), the IRS and Programmfabrik have been implementing the Citizen Archive project since December 2021.
The aim is to develop processes and a product for the simple digitization, indexing and publication of holdings from smaller, specialized Archive whose personnel and financial resources rarely allow comprehensive digitization.
By combining citizen science approaches with Semantic Web technologies, resources such as knowledge, commitment and time from interested and expert users are to be gained and the development of collections is to be included. The aim is to uncover previously inaccessible cultural treasures and make them available for education, research and the public in the early phase of development. The result should be an unbureaucratically accessible open source product in the form of a central knowledge and communication platform with various additional modules, which enables both indexing work and moderation and quality control of the data and content obtained.
The project is scheduled to last two years and has been running since December 2021. You can see a summary of the planned steps in these slides: