The original version of this note can be found at: http://etherpad.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de:9001/p/bb_digitalprojects_20150929

Notes for Brown-Bag DH workshop S2E02 (29.9.2015): Introducting in-house digital projects  

 Who: (Please put your name here) Shih-Pei, Robert, Lino, Ahmet, Jaro, Adrian, Zoe 

1. GMPG: by Jaromir

• Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft/History of the Max Planck Society
• 6km of paper files
• Django:  https://www.djangoproject.com/
• Also very recent events. "On the living object".

2. Local Gazetteers Project 

• Preserve structure in the course of digitization
• Possibilities for focused search
• Getting credit for publishing data
• LGDataverse. Built on Harvard Dataverse.
• Cf. markup platforms
  • automatic markup
  • also make your manual markup available for further research

3. ISMI: Islamic scientific manuscripts initiative

• bibbliographic challenges
  • no author, no title, no date
  • comment of comment of text
  • Object-oriented database
• Tools
  • OpenMind
  • Drupal site
  • full text search
  • Neo4J
  • Platin

Next time: 

Sphaera: headed by Matteo Valleriani Dept. I. 

• Collect all the editions of "De Sphaera" by Johannes Sacrobosco (astronimy). 1230 AD. 
• where the books were used, reused, published.