Central Description of the Collections of the Herder Institute

The Central Description of the Collections of the Herder Institute for Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association – provides an overview of the analog and digital collections available at the Herder Institute (including books, newspapers, press clippings, music, pictures, maps, documents, research data etc.).

Where possible, the Central Description of Collections is linked to the materials/sources themselves and/or their verifications in the catalogs and collection databases of the various service areas of the Herder institute.

The database is a prototype under construction.

The data model of the Central Description of Collections is based on LIDO. The definition of 'Holding' (German: 'Bestand') follows the category E78 Curated Holding from the CIDOC-CRM.