Bibliotheksdaten, Kulturtransfer und Digital Humanities - Zu einer Methodik bei der Untersuchung transregionaler Zirkulationen akademischer Literatur afrikanischer Autoren

Abstract

The publication gives us an inside of new research methods in connection to the processes of cultural appropriation of social science literature of African authors. The editor considers the german and the french book market of the 1950s until the present time of the reception contexts. Her researches are based on her extensive metadata stock of the German National Library and the National library of France. They are important resources in order to analyze and to illustrate certain circulation paths of human studies publications as well as the representativeness over a longer time period. The author is combining conventional principles of operation for the analyses of the cultural transfers with modern methods of Digital Humanities that can help to extract and to copy not noticed content of metadata. Because of that approach qualitative cultural transfer research will be opened to a quantitative culture transfer. The chosen procedure of the combination of classical methods with data driven approaches develops new hypothesis and research questions. The role of the mediators within the processes of the cultural transfers can be analyzed from a new perspective. Beside the detailed insight in the development the author also reports about the daily routine of an interdisciplinary cooperation between Global Studies and Informatics. It shows how the method can be used in other contexts for comparable questions. This encourages to continuative cooperation projects in order to deepen interdisciplinary methodical interaction between Global Studies and Digital Humanities with the help of of research examples and case studies.