The ZB MED's Digital Collection Project
The aim of this project is to digitise the ZB MED’s physical anthropology collection and make it available for free online.
Physical and biological anthropology is one of the ZB MED's numerous special subject collections. This subject area only established itself and acquired its own professorships in the late 19th century. The discovery of a Neanderthal specimen near the town of Mettmann in 1856 prompted wide-ranging discussions on human evolution which were subsequently given scientific foundations by Darwin. The project's goal is to digitise as much material on this topic as possible. This also includes adding other institutions' holdings to the collection.
Cooperation partners
The digitised documents are stored on a server operated by the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz). The Visual Library software designed by the company semantics Kommunikationsmanagement GmbH is used to present and manage the digitised documents. The project also includes the company Walter Nagel GmbH & Co. KG, and plans are underway to incorporate further cooperation partners.
