And I will talk about the Digital Humanity Services and Digital Editions service that we run at the Göttingen State and University Library. For more than two decades, the Göttingen State and University Library has been one of the most committed and active institutions in Germany in the field of digitizing cultural

heritage, building and maintaining digital research infrastructures, and providing services in the areas of digital humanities and digital editions. And the following I would like to present to you briefly and in chronological order the development and growth of these services and starting with digitization in the narrower

sense of the word which marks the beginning of these developments. Library users rightly expect fast, reliable, and uncomplicated access to digital resources

and in the course of virtual digitization, analog works, monographs, as well as journals are now being digitized on a large scale and made available on the internet. Within this context, the Göttingen Digitization Center was founded as early as 1997 and has since then grown into an international competence and service center for libraries and scientific

institutions in the field of virtual digitization. It is tasked with digitizing and presenting printed works, manuscripts, and pictorial works. Users from research and teaching can access today over 17,000 works with a volume of

over 10 million digitized pages provided by the Göttingen Digitization Center. 2002 marks the next milestone in this development with the establishment of the Research and Development Department, which has become one of the largest departments of its kind

in Germany and here is our team. As of the beginning of this year, we are 30 members in the R&D department. Our priorities include the establishment and development of digital research infrastructures for scientific data and services, as well as research into various aspects of research

data management. Since 2011, the SUBs activities in the field of digitization and digital humanities have multiplied and have also opened up new fields. In 2011, the German National Branch of the European Digital Research Infrastructure

for the Arts and Humanities, Dariadee, was founded under the leadership of the SUV and further developed until 2019 with funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It follows an architecture of participation and is now operated on the basis of a cooperation

agreement between 16 partners which are universities, libraries, data centers and various research institutions. Dariadee supports humanities scholars working with digital resources and methods in research and teaching.

To this end, the Dariadee partners are providing a digital research infrastructure and materials for teaching and further education in the field of digital humanities. And here I highlighted some of the tools that are available through this infrastructure, for example, the Topics Explorer to semantically analyze digital texts, a geo-browser actually

to visualize space-time relations in geographical data and the data modeling environment to model link and data structures. If you are interested in more of this, I have brought along some information material

about this. Now not only as a digital humanities service, in 2014, the SUV and the universities data center founded the e-Research Alliance. This is an interdisciplinary organizational unit and it actively supports researchers

in the planning and implementation of research data management. It also provides support in the search for and use of digital tools and services so that researchers can answer their research questions by digital means or enables them

to develop new research questions. 2019, in turn, saw three major developments. As I mentioned, the German branches of the major digital research infrastructures, Dariadee and Clarinde have started combining their services into Claridee,

also funded through a project by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. I've seen that Estonia is a member country of Clarin, but not yet maybe of Daria.

Clarin is like Daria, a European research infrastructure consortium and provides a common language resources and technology infrastructure. Yeah, Estonia being a member country. The project is organized in four pillars of focusing on data, tools and services,

community and IT infrastructure. And actually, this is an important point to us in all these developments. The SUV puts great emphasis on community building and on developing a sustainable service infrastructure for the humanities as we see both as a necessary basis for advancing

humanities research opportunities and bring together different methods and tools that are available here and there. A recent development in this area now is in Germany, that Germany has started building

up a national research data infrastructure, which shall cover all disciplines and bring together from all the different disciplines their approaches into one infrastructure.

And the SUV acts here as a co-applicant in a proposed consortium for the German, sorry, for this national research data infrastructure. It is currently under review. And this consortium, TextPlus, intends to establish an even broader research data

infrastructure for text and linguistic data, initially focusing on digital collections, lexical resources and editions. And of course, it builds on all the previous developments with Daria and Claria.

So now, turning a bit more into detail to the work with digital editions that we support. Editions are an essential part of basic research in the humanities and at the same time a starting point for the investigation of numerous research questions.

And nowadays, of course, editions are predominantly produced as digital editions, that is that they are created and presented using digital methods. The SUV has established itself in this field for over 10 years as a partner for digital edition projects and provides information science and information technology services.

Due to the large number of current digital edition projects at the SUV, as well as the growing demand for its services in this area, a proper digital edition service has now been established in order to optimize processes and provide structural support for all these activities.

And this covers a whole range which we have listed here. Information science consulting for grant proposals, training, help desk, the actual digitization, data modeling, schemata, metadata, schemata, authority data, ontologies,

which is very much based on the text encoding initiative, TI, a proper virtual research environment, data management, visualization where we also rely on international frameworks like IIIF,

the international image interoperability framework, and then we provide publication through portal in a digital way, but which is important for many humanists still also as print edition. And of course, the research data repositories.

I would like to present two examples of those digital editions. The first one here represents the type of local corporation of the SUV in a digital edition project. It ran from 2011 to 2019. It was led by Gabriele Radacke from the

Theodor Fontane, Albert Steller, Der Universitat Göttingen, and Miriam Blum, a former colleague from the SUV Göttingen, and was funded by the German Research Foundation.

So the digital edition of Theodor Fontane's notebooks is one of the first digital edition projects in which SUV participated as an information science and technology partner. It is a so-called ultra-diplomatic edition, which makes Fontane's manuscripts

text available in digital form as close as possible to the original. And due to the in-depth markup of the source texts based on the TI standard, this edition provides high quality and reusable research data for a section of the German cultural heritage.

The second example represents the type of an international corporation of the SUV in such a project. It's a project running from 2019 to 2021 as a corporation between Yossi Chayes from the University of Haifa and Jan Brasse, my colleague at the SUV Göttingen.

It's funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony. And this project, the Maps of God project, is a completely different type of edition than Fontane's notebooks and one of the most recent projects at the SUV.

The so-called Elanot are a special type of icono-texts, that is documents consisting of text and images complementing one another, which is very important to grasp the relationship between text and images.

And these have been produced in the context of Jewish mysticism. In these Elanot, diagrammatic representations are combined with large quantities of textual annotations that form a complex structure of knowledge. Due to the large material dimensions of these artefacts, up to one metre in width

and up to 13 metres in height, this material could not be edited and published but in digital form. The aim of the project is to make this extraordinary part of the Jewish cultural heritage accessible and available of course to a broad public.

And finally, Frank Dücke mentioned already the University of Göttingen's academic collections. I would also like to mention that the SCB is dedicated not only to the digitisation of textual materials but also of other artefacts of the material cultural heritage.

Thus, the Centre for Collection Development of the University of Göttingen is heavily engaged in digitising and recording the data of the objects from the academic collections. And SCB is one of the partners responsible for the implementation of the Central Collections

Database, which is operated by the Fautzeitge. And our part here is mainly data management, standardisation and aggregation to support these areas. And again here we follow a standard-based strategy to publish the collection objects on

the web in the university's collection portal but also in the German Digital Library and Europeana. And SCB is actively involved in developing and implementing community standards such as Lido and IIIF, which facilitate interoperability and reuse of the provided

object data or metadata, that would be a discussion, and their images on multiple levels nationally and internationally for researchers and for the public.

Thank you very much for your attention and of course I'm happy to answer any of your questions also during the lunch break or later in the afternoon, as I do not want to stand between you and a well-deserved lunch any longer. Thank you.