Corpora ethnographica online

Holger Meyer graduated from University of Rostock with a diploma in electronical engineering and received a PhD in computer science from the same university in 1990. PhD-thesis was on Implementation of Realtime Database Systems. Since 1992 he is Assistant Professor at the Database and Information Systems Research Group at Computer Science Department (Lehrstuhl für Datenbank- und Informationssysteme). His teaching and research interests include fields such as databases and query processing, transactional support e.g. for workflow systems. He is co-author of a German text book on XML and Databases. Holger Meyer leads or is involved in several fundamental and applied research projects on digital libraries. In the “WossiDiA” project he is directing the IT-part.

Christoph Schmitt, Dr. phil., Studium der Europäischen Ethnologie (Volkskunde) und Kulturforschung, Kunstgeschichte und Neueren deutschen Literatur an der Universität Marburg. 1992 Promotion zur volkskundlichen Medienforschung.1994 bis 1996 Lehrbeauftragter am Institut für Volkskunde der Universität Hamburg. 1996 bis 1998 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, seit 1999 Leiter des Instituts für Volkskunde (Wossidlo-Archiv) der Universität Rostock.

My assessment of this volume is very positive: the articles provide a wide range of topics, from developing digital fieldwork archives and digital editions of letters to the digitization and linkage of museum objects with archive records and library catalogues. The question of how to adapt the online corpora for scientific research is given ample attention. It is refreshing, that the technical and practical problems encountered in the various projects are explicitly mentioned thus helping others to find the right solutions. I highly recommend this varied and rich volume to every
professional in the field. – Nicoline van der Sijs in: Fabula, 3-4/2016