Digitization and indexing of Jens Baggesens estate

• Applicant: Dr. Kerstin Helmkamp
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies ; European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 461337239

The Project on digitization and indexing of the Kiel and Schleswig collection of the Danish poet, translator and cultural mediator Jens Baggesens estate. In cooperation with Prof. Karin Hoff, Institute for Scandinavian Studies, Frisian Studies and General Linguistics, the estates 16.200 pages will be cataloged and indexed in the “Kalliope Union Catalogue for archival holdings”, digitized and transcribed. The estate includes partly unknown documents like letters, fragments, lyrics, aphorisms and others. The indexing in Kalliope, difficult parts of the transcriptions and full text indexing will carried by researchers and librarians. Those parts of Baggesens estate which are located at the Danish National Library in Copenhagen will be connected through a record in Kalliope.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Participating Institution: Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein
• Co-Investigator: Professorin Dr. Karin Hoff