Technical and Organizational Workflow

• A goal of the project is to contribute to the optimization of sustainable technical organizational methods with the use of standardized workflows for the compilation, digitalization and presentation of digital collections as well as for data transmission and the integration of new transcriptions into the completed digital edition. Open source modules such as the platform-independent and free of licensing costs digitization software Kitodo, along with the research environment “Research Network and Database System” (Forschungsnetzwerk und Datenbanksystem FuD) software are deployed and undergoing continued further development. Metadata and digital reproductions are imported and exported from archives and libraries over interfaces within various technical environments. The compilation and development of the correspondence data occurs over the FuD user interface. Electronic storage is performed according to international standards in XML format (TEI-PS, UNICODE). Prompt updatability of the digital edition is made possible for the editors by means of the direct interface of the central database with the publishing environment. Usable best practice method modules are introduced in the area of deployed software components on the one hand. On the other, the database is secured in the long-term through platform-independent encryption which can be redeployed by follow-up projects. In so doing, we are putting collaborative work among universities, libraries and archives in the field of digital editions to the test.