Semantic minimal retrospective digitization of edited correspondence

Correspondence is in general an essential key to research in many aspects. That is why around the world so much effort goes into editing corpora of letters. A problem is that most of the available edited correspondence is still imprisoned between cover boards and thus may stay hidden for the researchers area of interest. 

The poster discusses possible problems in retrospective digitization in general, propose possible work flows and tools for the creation of a so-called semantic minimal retrospective digitization, and the overall benefit of open sourced correspondence metadata.