Weekly report digital in words and numbers - Digital provision of DIW weekly report content from 1928 to 1968 (WBdigital)

• Applicants: Dr. Tobias Gebel, since 1/2022; Professor Dr. Frank Puppe; Professor Dr. Klaus Tochtermann
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; Statistics and Econometrics
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 491276359

Goal of the project is the sustainable digital provision of all contents of the DIW Weekly Report (DIW Wochenbericht) from 1928 to 1968 for the social and economic sciences, related disciplines and the public on a national and international level. The European infrastructure of social and economic data is being substantially expanded to include historical data and historical source material. This material includes information and databases, in particular on the economic development after the the Great Depression of 1929 in the Weimar Republic, the economic situation and development during National Socialism and the Federal Republic of Germany's economic boom up to the first recession in 1966/67, which was previously not available in this form. In this way, comprehensive historical source material over 40 years of German economic development and three political systems is made available for research. Historical German specialist texts on economic development are made visible and accessible for the international research community using web-based and thesaurus-based search functions using current and historical specialist terms in German and English. With the digital indexing of all DIW weekly report content (including articles, diagrams, tables, supplementary tables) as full text and the additional extraction of thematically structured time series of the supplementary tables, new usage options are created. in particular for historical comparative analyzes and the investigation of structural, economic and social changes. Research potentials arise here, among other things, for the comparison of crisis developments, the comparison of economic structural change processes, a comparison of welfare and distribution effects over time or the validation of forecasting instruments.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Dr. Peter Löwe, until 1/2022