Towards a Datatset of Digitalized Historical German VET and CVET Regulations

Thomas Reiser; Jens Dörpinghaus; Petra Steiner; Michael Tiemann

doi:10.3390/data9110128

Data (Nov 2024)

Towards a Datatset of Digitalized Historical German VET and CVET Regulations

Thomas Reiser,
Jens Dörpinghaus,
Petra Steiner,
Michael Tiemann

Affiliations

Thomas Reiser: Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz, 56070 Koblenz, Germany
Jens Dörpinghaus: Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz, 56070 Koblenz, Germany
Petra Steiner: Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), 53113 Bonn, Germany
Michael Tiemann: Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz, 56070 Koblenz, Germany

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/data9110128
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 11
p. 128

Abstract

Read online

The digitization of historical documents has gained particular interest in recent years in the digital humanities. The goal is to digitize historical documents by extracting and structuring text from scanned images. Here, we focus on the processing of historical German VET (vocational education and training) and CVET (continuing vocational education and training) regulations to support educational research. This dataset contains data from 1908 to the present and includes 2125 documents as PDF, 983 fully converted XML documents, and additional metadata for 7090 documents from the archive. We present an overview of the historical background and the challenges of processing different historical documents from three different federal states.

Published in Data

ISSN: 2306-5729 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Bibliography. Library science. Information resources
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/data

About the journal

Abstract

Keywords