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How to face the crisis of legitimacy : the transfer and further development of methods of access from printed to digital/digitised editions

, and . DHLU, (2013)bibtex: Goetze2013HowTF.

Abstract

All media provide media specific methods of access to information and therefore media change affects also these methods of access. But the change of media and hence access methods also raises the question of legitimacy of doing this, in terms of scholarly working as well as in terms of justification in the face of the funding general public financing research either directly by the government or indirectly by research funding organisations which are financed by taxes. The digitalization of a formerly printed critical edition is a case of media change. This paper will shortly describe the full text search as an example of methods of access added by the transformation of classical print editions into a digital Web site, and how far this method accommodates the user habits of the broader, even non-scholarly public. Using the example of APW digital, a full text digitalization of a cutting edge printed edition, online since July 2014, three possibilities to accommodate the users’ expectations - and thus to gain legitimacy for the digitalization project - will be presented and discussed: the creation of new introductory material besides the original texts, the using of full text search and the access by metadata.

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