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Leipzig: Wednesday 28 May 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Leipzig will open at 13:00 on Wednesday 28 May due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Frankfurt: Thursday 5 June 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main will open at 13:00 on Thursday, 5 June due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 will be open from 9:00 to 21:30.

Dissertations on information science

In the background, people working can be seen out of focus, in the foreground a colored area with the title of the project.

Project description

Information science is an especially heterogeneous and multidisciplinary academic discipline whose thematic boundaries and focal points are constantly evolving as the result of public requirements and the influence of a technological imperative. These circumstances make it considerably more difficult to identify dissertations relevant to the discipline using automated processes based on existing classification systems such as Dewey decimal classification.


In order to solve this problem, an approach was to be developed that went beyond the existing metadata to incorporate other attributes – e.g. institutes or contributors from the requisite full texts or online sources – for purposes of identification. The aim of the project was the automated creation of a corpus of dissertations relevant to the field of information science and a subsequent descriptive analysis of thematic trends in this discipline.

The project was proposed and realised by Leon Munz.

Results and further information

Project report

Duration

September 2022 - February 2023

Contact

DH-Stipendien@dnb.de

Last changes: 31.05.2024
Contact: DH-Stipendien@dnb.de

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