With additional funding by the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), the DACHS service is currently expanding into a citation repository for graduate students and researchers at the HCTS. This "OpenDACHS" project is a collaboration by the HCTS and the Centre for East Asian Studies and was presented to the GPTS students at the HCTS on July 24, 2018. The OpenDACHS team presented the project, its history and a number of sample cases.
One of the sample cases presented was the project of Dr. Eliane Ettmüller, a postdoctoral researcher at the HCTS, who is currently working on a project related to such dynamic content. She focuses on Islamism in the internet and looks at web pages that include propaganda or publicity material and are often deleted due to censorship. By establishing a "Digital Archive Islamism - Digitales Archiv Islamismus," Ettmüller makes this collection accessible for long-term research and preserves it for further inquiries.
The OpenDACHS team also talked about different scenarios in which the platform can be relevant for the student’s research, as well as workflows that early-adopters can already use to make sure online resources they are citing are re-usable and sustainable.