Notre travail de thèse vise à établir un diagnostic des potentialités scientifiques marocaines et à concevoir de nouveaux dispositifs pour la mesure, la cartographie et l’open access à la science locale.Pour bâtir des systèmes nationaux de recherche et garantir le développement socioéconomique du Maroc, les décideurs des universités ont besoin d’indicateurs d’analyse et d’évaluation de leur patrimoine scientifique. Les principales sources utilisées pour effectuer cette analyse sont les bases de données internationales « Scopus » et « Web of Science », en dépit de leurs biais d’indexation et de couverture de la science des pays du Sud. Cela induit un questionnement quant au manque hypothétique de la visibilité de la science marocaine. Ce manque de visibilité serait-il dû à la faible présence des revues nationales dans les bases de données internationales ? Ou relèverait-il de la faible qualité des publications marocaines ? La science marocaine est-elle une science à visée locale, abordant des thèmes qui ne figurent pas dans l’agenda de la science universelle ? Les apports de l’open access quant à l’augmentation de la visibilité et de l’impact de la recherche sont-ils méconnus des universitaires marocains ? La réponse à ces questions est accomplie à travers l’étude de cas de la Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Casablanca (FMPC). Elle s’articule autour de trois objectifs spécifiques : 1/ Recenser la production scientifique ; 2/ cartographier la production scientifique et explorer l’existence d’une relation entre l’indexation des publications dans les bases de données internationales et leur visibilité 3/ évaluer les comportements et les usages de l’open access par les chercheurs.Les principaux résultats de l’analyse et de la cartographie de la production scientifique de la FMPC, attestent que celle-ci jouit d’une grande visibilité à l’échelle internationale. La juxtaposition des publications nationales et internationales permet de confirmer que 70% des publications scientifiques de la FMPC sont intégrées dans les bases de données internationales et que 74.21 % de l’ensemble des articles sont publiés en anglais. Par ailleurs, on ne pourrait exclure 30% des publications nationales de l’évaluation bibliométrique au risque de biaiser les politiques scientifiques du pays.D’autres résultats de la thèse sont constitués par la mise en place du dépôt institutionnel de l’Université et du portail de revues médicales, créés afin d’assurer une large diffusion de la production des chercheurs de la FMPC et d’augmenter sa visibilité et son impact. Néanmoins, les résultats de l’enquête menée auprès des chercheurs ont montré que la principale barrière à l’adoption de l’open access est la méconnaissance des avantages des dispositifs de libre accès à l’IST quant à l’augmentation de leur impact et de leur visibilité. Les résultats de la cartographie de la FMPC et de l’étude des comportements des chercheurs à l’égard de l’open access, nous ont permis de proposer des fondements pour l’édification d’indicateurs adaptés au contexte marocain. / Our thesis aims to establish a diagnosis of Moroccan scientific potential in the medical area and to conceptualize new devices for measurement, mapping and open access to local science.To build national research systems and ensure Morocco’s socio-economic development, university decision-makers need analytic and evaluation indicators of their scientific heritage. The main sources used to perform this analysis are the international databases "Scopus" and "Web of Science", despite their biased indexing and coverage of southern countries.This impedes the accessibility and visibility of Moroccan science. A few questions then arise: is this lack of visibility due to the low presence of national journals in international databases? Is it due to the quality of Moroccan publications? Is Moroccan science locally focused, addressing themes which are not on the global agenda? Do Moroccan universities lack awareness of the contribution of open access to increasing research visibility and impact? Our case study of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Casablanca (FMPC) is based on three specific objectives: 1/ Identifying scientific production; 2/ characterizing scientific production and exploring the existence of a relationship between the indexing of publications in international databases and their visibility and 3/ evaluating the behaviors and uses of open access by researchers.The main results of our thesis are the analysis and characterization of the scientific output of the FMPC, which is highly visible on an international scale: the juxtaposition of national and international publications confirms that 70% of the FMPC’s scientific publications are integrated into international databases and that 74.21% of all articles are published in English. Furthermore, 30% of national publications cannot be excluded from bibliometric evaluation, at the risk of biasing the country's science policies.The establishment of the University’s institutional repository and of the medical journal portal makes it possible to widely disseminate FMPC researcher production and to increase its visibility and impact. Nevertheless, the results of the survey of researchers showed that the main impediment to the adoption of open access is the lack of awareness of the benefits of STIs with regards to increasing their impact and visibility. The results of the FMPC’s science mapping and the study of researcher behavior with regard to open access have allowed us to propose bases for the definition of indicators adapted to the Moroccan context.

Is essential that the society of Santa Maria and region has knowledge and recognizes the MHASM and its function, as well as their actions and their services, and how to enjoy these, and for this there must be the diffusion of the institution. From this it was questioned: "Can some kind of audiovisual diffusion be develop, as means of communication with society, to promote the MHASM, its actions and its services?". In order to answer this and as a mean of spreading the work of the MHASM, focusing on audiovisual diffusion, this study sought to achieve the following objectives: achieve audiovisual diffusion of MHASM by developing an institutional video that identifies and characterizes the Archive and all that concerns it; conduct a study of corporate videos from state public archives and the Federal District Archive in order to obtain information for the institutional video production from MHASM; and demonstrate the importance of audiovisual diffusion to the Archive. Applied methodology was used with quantitative and qualitative approach, being also exploratory, descriptive and bibliographic, using forms as data collection tools. To support the research, concepts, authors and references were used that were related to patrimony, cultural heritage, archive, public archive, historical archive, diffusion, archival diffusion, audiovisual, and institutional video. Taking into account the literature used, the context of the research universe and the studies and actions taken, the objectives listed above were achieved. Thus, it is displayed here all the theoretical and technical process employed for the institutional video production of the MHASM leading to the audiovisual diffusion of the institution. / É essencial que a sociedade de Santa Maria e região tenha ciência e reconheça o AHMSM, sua função, ações e serviços, e como gozar destes, e para isso é preciso que haja a difusão da instituição. A partir disto questionou-se: é possível desenvolver algum recurso de difusão audiovisual, como meio de comunicação com a sociedade, para divulgar o AHMSM, suas ações e serviços? . Com a intenção de responder a isto, tendo por tema a difusão do AHMSM, com enfoque na difusão audiovisual, buscou-se atingir os seguintes objetivos: realizar a difusão audiovisual do AHMSM, por meio do desenvolvimento de vídeo institucional, identificando e caracterizando o Arquivo e tudo que lhe diz respeito; realizar estudo dos vídeos institucionais dos arquivos públicos estaduais e do Distrito Federal, a fim de se obter subsídio para a produção de vídeo institucional do AHMSM; e demonstrar a importância da difusão audiovisual para o Arquivo. Utilizou-se metodologia de natureza aplicada, com abordagem quanti-qualitativa, sendo também exploratória, descritiva e bibliográfica, fazendo-se uso de formulários como instrumentos de coleta de dados. Para subsidiar a pesquisa, abordaram-se conceitos, autores e referenciais relacionados a patrimônio, patrimônio cultural, arquivo, arquivo público, arquivo histórico, difusão, difusão arquivística, audiovisual, vídeo institucional. Levando-se em consideração a literatura abordada, a contextualização do universo da pesquisa e os estudos e ações realizadas, teve-se como resultados obtidos o alcance dos objetivos acima apresentados. Deste modo, é apresentado todo o processo teórico e técnico empregado para a produção do vídeo institucional do AHMSM e, consequentemente, a difusão audiovisual da instituição.

The present work was developed during the Masters Course in the Vocational Graduation Program in Cultural Heritage at the Federal University of Santa. This research aimed at investigating the reality of the Heritage Education in the Elementary School system in Santa Maria/RS to, after knowing this reality, propose subsides of guidelines focusing educator so that they can bring children and teenagers closer to the local heritage, especially the documental heritage in custody of the Municipal Historical Archive. The dialogue between Archive and School is critical to make students understand the importance to preserve their local heritage which is their own heritage. Starting from this and, considering the fact that the Municipal Historical Archive is visited by just a few students from elementary school, we tried to investigate the causes of this detachment. Our study is a descriptive field research with a quantitative and qualitative approach. To investigate the Heritage Education scenario in the city of Santa Maria we used a questionnaire that was sent to fifty-eight private, State and Municipal schools of the administrative urban center region and its neighboring regions but only twenty-one schools returned with some feedback. With the analysis of the collected data we can infer that the Heritage Education is present at school but is not worked from the Municipal Historical Archive documental heap because the educators do not know the services and research possibilities offered by the information unit. In this way, as educators are actions multipliers at school, the Heritage Education Program from the Santa Maria Municipal Historical Archive began with actions directe to the educators, such as the Meeting and the Orientation Guide for Educators. / O presente trabalho foi desenvolvido durante o Curso de Mestrado do Programa de Pós-Graduação Profissionalizante em Patrimônio Cultural da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar o cenário da Educação Patrimonial na rede de ensino fundamental de Santa Maria/RS para a partir dessa realidade, propor subsídios de orientação direcionados aos educadores para que aproximem as crianças e adolescentes do patrimônio local, mais precisamente do patrimônio documental do Arquivo Histórico do Município. O diálogo entre arquivo e escola é fundamental para despertar nos estudantes a importância de preservar o patrimônio de sua localidade, que não deixa de ser o seu próprio patrimônio. Partindo dessa premissa e do fato do Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Santa Maria ser frequentado por um número reduzido de estudantes do ensino fundamental, procurou-se investigar as causas desse distanciamento. O estudo constitui-se numa pesquisa de campo do tipo descritiva com uma abordagem quantitativa e qualitativa. Para investigar o cenário da Educação Patrimonial no município de Santa Maria utilizou-se do questionário, que foi encaminhado para cinquenta e oito escolas particulares, estaduais e municipais da região administrativa centro urbano e regiões limítrofes, mas apenas obteve-se retorno de vinte e uma escolas. Com a análise dos dados infere-se que a Educação Patrimonial está presente dentro da escola, mas que não é trabalhada a partir do acervo documental do Arquivo Histórico Municipal por desconhecimento dos educadores acerca dos serviços e possibilidades de pesquisa oferecidas pela unidade de informação. Desta forma, como os educadores são os multiplicadores de ações nas escolas, o Programa de Educação Patrimonial do Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Santa Maria partiu de ações direcionadas a eles, como o Encontro e o Guia de Orientação para Educadores.

L’objet d’étude de cette thèse porte sur les anciens lieux d’habitation parisiens d’André Kertész et de Brassaï, tels qu’ils existent aujourd’hui. Il repose sur une analyse de photographies puisées dans leurs archives et sur un travail de terrain effectué dans ces lieux désormais habités par d’autres occupants. La prise de contact avec les habitants actuels a été l’occasion d’une collaboration participative puisque ces images d’archives ont généré un travail de création collective : placés à différents postes, différents points de vue préalablement identifiés dans ces anciens clichés, ces habitants ont effectué eux-mêmes un travail de re-photographie simultané. Cette recherche est le résultat d’une expérience urbaine qui combine documentation, interprétation et création. L’étude de deux archives photographiques, nous a permis d’identifier sept intérieurs et de répertorier un corpus de cinquante-sept clichés d’époque. Le caractère social et interactif de notre méthode de travail vise à une meilleure appréhension de ces lieux d’habitation et de notre héritage culturel dans une perspective de transmission; l’aboutissement étant une production plastique, une image panoramique cumulant différentes époques dans un même espace. Pour l’étude des rapports relationnelles des images et la définition des champs de représentation et d’interprétation, nous nous sommes appuyés sur le schéma de l’intertextualité. Nous avons cherché des analogies permettant de comparer les créations re-photographiques avec le modèle genettien de l’intertextualité. Ce principe d’une organisation « intervisuelle » a été complété par des méthodes théoriques chronologiques, topographiques et médiatiques. / The topic of my thesis is the former dwelling places of two famous Hungarian photographers, André Kertész and Brassaï. It identifies the pieces of the archives which were made in the private spaces of the artists. The identification is carried out through getting into the flats, into the spaces. Getting in touch with the present occupants is the beginning of a collective creative work. The pictures are taken in these spaces, from different point of views, but at the same time. My work is a documentation of an urban experience with a structure of a network. The research, which is built on the visual content of the archives, presents factual results and interpretational creative activity as well. Seven found interiors and the two archives have been examined, 57 pictures have been identified, which shed light on new parts of the artists’ biographies. The social requirement of the method of working up serves the collective cognition of cultural memories, the discovery of one’s own living space and the possibilities of passing them on. The act of Rephotography, points towards the future and makes the recipient think on. To interpret the relative relationship between the pictures, the thesis examines the possible representative domains of the photographical metaphor of intertextuality. It looks for analogies which enable that the works made in intervisual spirit could be compared to Genette’s intertextuality and it completes the method of arrangement with further chronological, topographical and medial theoretical schemes.

Alors que les individus dans la société contemporaine sont unis non par une propriété mais par un devoir et par une dette, par un manque, par une limite prenant la forme d’une charge pour celui qui en est affecté, la postmodernité rend à la mort et à l’absence toute sa densité. À travers la répétition, entre jubilation et désespérance, les artistes figurent la temporalité de l’épreuve par une écriture qui travaille l’instant. Ils racontent ces évènements infimes qui sont les plus fragiles, les plus précaires, ayant pourtant une forte efficacité. Il s’agira ici d’étudier les nouvelles postures devant l’événement historique, quand l’artiste se tient au plus singulier. / While individuals in contemporary society are united not by property but by a duty and a debt, a lack, by a limit taking the shape of a responsibility for the one who is affected, postmodernism returns to death and absence all its density. Through repetition, between jubilation and despair, the artist represents the temporality of the event. His writing works the moment. He tells these tiny events that are the most fragile, the most precarious, having nevertheless a strong efficiency. This thesis will try to study the new postures in front of the historic event, when the artist stands in the most singular.

Denna studie om utmaningar i införandeprocessen av e-arkiv, visar att digitalisering är komplext och snarast saknar facit. Däremot har studien kunnat visa på viktiga moment och indikationer för hur förändringsprocesser i kommunala verksamheter, speciellt mindre kommuner och verksamheter, kan bedrivas. Studien har visat på hur viktigt det är med förändringledning, framförallt vid införande av ny teknologi, exempelvis e-arkiv. Studien undersöker de utmaningar som föreligger i införandeprocessen av ett e-arkiv och dess kommunikation, och hur dessa kan minimeras, hur de digitala attityderna ser ut bland kommunala medarbetare, samt hur arkivverksamhetens status kan påverka digitalisering och offentlig förvaltning. Studien visar att attityder till digitalisering och ny teknik är positiva och att de flesta anser sig ha allra minst tillräcklig kompetens inom IT, och dessutom visade enkätundersökningen på en avsaknad av påtagliga skillnader mellan olika åldersgrupper, vad gäller teknik och digitalisering. Det har också tydliggjorts att kunskap, information och kommunikation behövs mer av, i form av exempelvis introduktion och utbildning. E-arkiv bidrar med gedigen verksamhetsplan och grund-läggande behov för sammanhållen förvaltning, långsiktighet, effektivisering, öppenhet, bättre arkivvård, tydlig målbild och enhetliga arbetssätt. Förändringsledning är nyckeln till framgång, och inte bara för vinstdrivande företag utan minst lika viktigt för kommunala verksamheter och andra statliga institutioner, då det inte bara underlättar att göra ekonomiska vinster, utan att styra processen och alla dess steg som är viktiga. Utan tillgång till en modell av exempelvis Kotters åttastegstyp, är det allt för lätt att missa delar som egentligen är väldigt viktiga. Kanske speciellt i processer relaterade till ny teknologi, som införandet av e-arkiv är, är Kotters och andra processer för förändringsledning ytterst effektiva för att skapa ett bra och långsiktigt resultat. / This study on challenges in the implementation process of digital archives shows that digitalisation is complex, and lacks a definite answer on how to handle it best. However, the study specifies some important steps and indicators for change management processes in municipal organisations and especially in small municipalities and organisations. The study has also shown the importance of change management, especially when it comes to the implementation of new technology, such as digital archives. The study examines the challenges in the implementation process of digital archives and how they can be avoided, what the municipal employees’ attitudes are towards digitalisation as well as how the archive’s operational maturity can affect digitalisation and public administration. The study shows that the attitudes towards digitalisation and new technology are positive, and that most employees consider themselves to have proficient competence in IT. Moreover, the survey shows a lack of prominent differences between different ages when it comes to technology and digitalisation. The survey highlights a lack of knowledge, information and communication, which need to be improved, for example through introduction and education. Digital archives contribute to fund-amental needs such as coherent operations, sustainability, effectivisation, openness, improved archival operations, and a clear vision. Change management is essentially the key to success, not solely for for-profit companies, but it is just as important for municipal operations and state-run institutions, as it facilitates economic profits without steering the process in any direction. Without access to a model like for example Kotter’s eight step model, it is easy to miss the most important aspects.

Das kulturelle Gedächtnis speichert immer gewaltigere Mengen von Informationen und Daten. Doch nur ein verschwindend geringer Teil der Inhalte ist derzeit über digitale Kanäle recherchierbar und verfügbar. Die Projekte mediaglobe und yovisto ermöglichen, den wachsenden Bestand an audiovisuellen Dokumenten auffindbar und nutzbar zu machen und begleiten Medienarchive in die digitale Zukunft. mediaglobe hat das Ziel, durch automatisierte und semantische Verfahren audiovisuelle Dokumente zur deutschen Zeitgeschichte zu erschließen und verfügbar zu machen. Die Vision von mediaglobe ist ein web-basierter Zugang zu umfassenden digitalen AV-Inhalten in Medienarchiven. Dazu bietet mediaglobe zahlreiche automatisierte Verfahren zur Analyse von audiovisuellen Daten, wie z.B. strukturelle Analyse, Texterkennung im Video, Sprachanalyse oder Genreanalyse. Der Einsatz semantischer Technologien verknüpft die Ergebnisse der AV-Analyse und verbessert qualitativ und quantitativ die Ergebnisse der Multimedia-Suche. Ein Tool zum Rechtemanagement liefert Informationen über die Verfügbarkeit der Inhalte. Innovative und intuitiv bedienbare Benutzeroberflächen machen den Zugang zu kulturellem Erbe aktiv erlebbar. mediaglobe vereinigt die Projektpartner Hasso-Plattner Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik (HPI), Medien-Bildungsgesellschaft Babelsberg, FlowWorks und das Archiv der defa Spektrum. mediaglobe wird im Rahmen des Forschungsprogramms »THESEUS – Neue Technologien für das Internet der Dienste« durch das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie gefördert. Die Videosuchmaschine yovisto hingegen ist spezialisiert auf Aufzeichnungen akademischer Lehrveranstaltungen und implementiert explorative und semantische Suchstrategien. yovisto unterstützt einen mehrstufigen 'explorativen' Suchprozess, in dem der Suchende die Möglichkeit erhält, den Bestand des zugrundeliegenden Medienarchivs über vielfältige Pfade entsprechend seines jeweiligen Interesses zu erkunden, so dass am Ende dieses Suchprozesses Informationen entdeckt werden, von deren Existenz der Suchende bislang nichts wusste. Um dies zu ermöglichen vereinigt yovisto automatisierte semantische Medienanalyse mit benutzergenerierten Metadaten zur inhaltlichen Erschließung von AV-Daten und ermöglicht dadurch eine punktgenaue inhaltsbasierte Suche in Videoarchiven.

This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. The complexity of archival methodology and thought has evolved over the course of the past few decades, with more and more institutions recognizing the historical bias of their collections and many working towards combating these biases to bridge knowledge gaps and provide more detailed and nuanced understanding of their materials. With the development of the internet, and the pressure for heritage institutions to turn towards more digital methods of dissemination of their collections, there has been fierce debate as to good practices towards implementing these digital means of access and dissemination. Collections which contain historically problematic materials, such as eugenics collections, can make digitization and digital methodologies particularly difficult. This thesis serves as a groundwork for the development of good institutional methodologies in terms of digitization of eugenics-related materials by comparing the available methodologies employed by four institutions holding materials which were particularly significant during the period of legally applied eugenics on their respective populations.

Das Projekt „ValidAX - Validierung der Frameworks AMOPA und XTRIEVAL“ untersucht die Möglichkeiten die an der Professur Medieninformatik der TU Chemnitz erstellten Softwareframeworks AMOPA (Automated Moving Picture Annotator) und Xtrieval (Extensible Information Retrieval Framework) in Richtung einer wirtschaftlichen Verwertbarkeit weiterzuentwickeln und in Arbeitsprozesse praktisch einzubinden. AMOPA ist in der Lage, beliebige audiovisuelle Medien zu analysieren und Metadaten wie Schnittgrenzen, Szenen, Personen, Audiotranskriptionen und andere durchzuführen. Xtrieval ist ein hochflexibles Werkzeug, welches die Recherche in beliebigen Medien optimal ermöglicht. Für die Durchführung des Projekts wurden insgesamt drei mögliche Einsatzszenarien definiert, in denen die Frameworks unterschiedlichen Anforderungen ausgesetzt waren: - Archivierung - Interaktives und automatisiertes Fernsehen - Medizinische Videoanalysen Entsprechend der Szenarien wurden die Frameworks optimiert und technische Workflows konzipiert und realisiert. Demonstratoren dienen zur Gewinnung weiterer Verwertungspartner.:I. Kurzdarstellung 2 1. Aufgabenstellung 2 2. Voraussetzungen, unter denen das Vorhaben durchgeführt wurde 3 3. Planung und Ablauf des Vorhabens 4 4. Wissenschaftlicher und technischer Stand, an den angeknüpft wurde 6 5. Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Stellen 7 II. Eingehende Darstellung 7 1. Verwendung der Zuwendung und des erzielten Ergebnisses im Einzelnen 7 AB 1: Flexible Mediatranskodierung für den Transport audiovisueller Medien 7 AB 2: Archivierungsstraße 13 AB 3: Workflowintegration 18 AB 4: Annotationsunterstützung 27 AB 5: Bilderkennung 33 AB 6: Web-Services 40 AB 7: Parallelverarbeitung 41 2. Wichtigste Positionen des zahlenmäßigen Nachweises 43 3. Notwendigkeit und Angemessenheit der geleisteten Arbeit 45 4. Voraussichtlicher Nutzen, insbesondere der Verwertbarkeit des Ergebnisses im Sinne des fortgeschriebenen Verwertungsplans 46 5. Während der Durchführung des Vorhabens dem ZE bekannt gewordenen Fortschritts auf dem Gebiet des Vorhabens bei anderen Stellen 48 6. Erfolgte oder geplante Veröffentlichungen der Ergebnisse 48 / The project "ValidAX - Validation of the frameworks AMOPA and XTRIEVAL" examines the possibilities of developing the software framework AMOPA (Automated Moving Picture Annotator) and Xtrieval (Extensible Information Retrieval Framework) towards a commercial usage. The frameworks have been created by the Chair Media Informatics at the TU Chemnitz. AMOPA is able to analyze any audiovisual media and to generate additional metadata such as scene detection, face detection, audio transcriptions and others. Xtrieval is a highly flexible tool that allows users to search in any media. For the implementation of the project a total of three possible scenarios have been defined, in which the frameworks were exposed to different requirements: • Archiving • Interactive and automated TV • Medical video analysis According to the scenarios, the frameworks were optimized and designed and technical workflows were conceptualized and implemented. Demonstrators are used to obtain further commercialization partner.:I. Kurzdarstellung 2 1. Aufgabenstellung 2 2. Voraussetzungen, unter denen das Vorhaben durchgeführt wurde 3 3. Planung und Ablauf des Vorhabens 4 4. Wissenschaftlicher und technischer Stand, an den angeknüpft wurde 6 5. Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Stellen 7 II. Eingehende Darstellung 7 1. Verwendung der Zuwendung und des erzielten Ergebnisses im Einzelnen 7 AB 1: Flexible Mediatranskodierung für den Transport audiovisueller Medien 7 AB 2: Archivierungsstraße 13 AB 3: Workflowintegration 18 AB 4: Annotationsunterstützung 27 AB 5: Bilderkennung 33 AB 6: Web-Services 40 AB 7: Parallelverarbeitung 41 2. Wichtigste Positionen des zahlenmäßigen Nachweises 43 3. Notwendigkeit und Angemessenheit der geleisteten Arbeit 45 4. Voraussichtlicher Nutzen, insbesondere der Verwertbarkeit des Ergebnisses im Sinne des fortgeschriebenen Verwertungsplans 46 5. Während der Durchführung des Vorhabens dem ZE bekannt gewordenen Fortschritts auf dem Gebiet des Vorhabens bei anderen Stellen 48 6. Erfolgte oder geplante Veröffentlichungen der Ergebnisse 48

The Book of the Dead-Project Bonn started in the early 1990s. Prof Ursula Rößler-Köhler, who had previously laid the foundation for modern Book of the Dead studies by her work on BD chapter 17 applying the method of textual criticism, achieved a 10-year funding from the German Research Society (DFG). In 2004 the project was granted another 9-year funding by the Academy of Sciences and Arts of North Rhine-Westphalia. One aim of the project was to gather all available evidence of Book of the Dead manuscripts spread across collections around the world. Today, the archive comprises approximately 3000 records of BD sources. In 2012 the corresponding database, after undergoing a transfer from FileMaker to XML format in collaboration with the department of e-Humanities at the University of Cologne, was launched and made publicly available online. The data sets include various different kinds of information about the objects and the sets of BD spells and vignettes found on them. These are now easily accessible for statistic analyses such as evaluations of neighbouring spells and sequences or occurrences in specific locations or time periods. Furthermore, the database includes several metadata such as bibliographical information, translations of spells and a motif index. It is cross connected with other Egyptological databases such as Trismegistos and the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. After the project was completed at the end of 2012, the online database has been operating for a considerable amount of time with scholars using it and trying the several opportunities it provides. Now is the time for a first evaluation to actually see which functions of the database work well, which might have been ignored by users and what information the database could provide scholars with for their actual research. Naturally, there is a need for a continuous maintenance and update on new findings and the latest research. Furthermore it is important to understand which possibly missing functions or information the users wish to be included and if this is actually realisable. On the other hand, there might be opportunities for analyses that have not been fully understood and therefore have not been made use of. This presentation aims to address some of these issues concerning the BD online database and to gather ideas and possible collaborators for future BD project plans.