ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik

Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (or "Institute for Documentology and Editorship" in English) is like a club where people who really like documents and books can get together and talk about them. You know how you have a favorite book that you love to read over and over again? Well, people at this club love books so much that they want to learn how to take care of them and make them better.

They do this by studying things like how to preserve old books so they don't fall apart, how to make new books easier to read, and how to make sure the words in books are correct. They even study things like how to make digital books (or e-books) so that you can read them on a computer or tablet.

Basically, this club is all about making sure that books (and other important documents) are well taken care of and easy to read. They want to make sure that people can enjoy books for a long time and that the words in them are always accurate.