Current status With the scheduled and successful completion of the project for the retrospective conversion of the autograph catalogue of the SLUB at the end of September 2016, all autograph and estate holdings of the SLUB are electronically recorded in the Kalliope database. The material that is now completely searchable online - bequests, correspondence, work manuscripts, biographical and genealogical transcripts as well as individual autographs from the fields of art, literature and music with a focus on Central Germany and Saxony - is unical, mostly unpublished and thus the most important source for editions and historical research. Within the framework of the project, a total of over 300,000 records could be converted. Together with the data already recorded in Kalliope, almost 371,000 autographs of the SLUB are now searchable online in Kalliope. With almost 12% of the data stock in Kalliope, the SLUB is thus currently the largest data supplier of the joint database. The national database Kalliope is the essential scientific information infrastructure for autographs and bequests and provides a sustainable data basis for digitisation and edition projects.

Kalliope Union Catalogue

DescriptionThe autograph collection of the SLUB Dresden, which has grown since the 16th century, is a permanently requested source basis for research from the early modern period to the present. The conventional catalogue of autographs, which has been maintained since about 1860 and was discontinued in 2003 in favour of electronic catalog uing, contains about 279,000 autographs, including numerous written testimonies of outstanding personalities. The project includes the data conversion of 261,000 references (persons, corporate bodies, documents) that are not yet machine-readable, using norm data in Kalliope. As a result, the national union catalogue Kalliope will be successively expanded by 15% and the entire autograph holdings of the SLUB will be internationally searchable. The necessary know-how has already been developed at the SLUB within the framework of a DFG pilot project. An EAD/EAC interface is used to transfer the metadata from Kalliope to digital collections and virtual research environments.

Duration 2013-2016