[HN Gopher] Saving a German Library as an interface between rese...
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       Saving a German Library as an interface between research and
       infrastructure
        
       Author : makula
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2023-07-10 14:43 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | espe wrote:
       | having worked with them for a few years, i'd say it's one of the
       | most innovative library institutions and we (in the german
       | speaking world and beyond) need them. they produced countless
       | digital corpora and editions. largely historical of course, but
       | high quality data.
        
       | thorel wrote:
       | Among many other things, SUB Gottingen maintains the Gottingen
       | Center for Retrospective Digitization (GDZ) [1] which hosts a
       | very impressive collection of digitized documents. It seems that
       | the managerial changes that prompted the open letter could pose a
       | serious threat to the project.
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       | [1] https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/
        
       | hutattedonmyarm wrote:
       | Glad to see quite a few people from my university's library (and
       | surrounding services) on the supporter's list
        
       | hm8 wrote:
       | I wonder how many innovations/systems are lost to history due to
       | people changing incentives OR not understanding the depth of how
       | incentives are structured. Without this open letter, it'd be hard
       | to hear the other side. Most likely the changes would have been
       | adopted...
       | 
       | Reading this encouraged me to think critically about things I
       | work on.
        
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