Humboldt's Idea of Interconnectedness as an Internet Portal
- This article sets the focus on methods of information technology in the Humboldt Portal, which represents an ongoing research project to develop a virtual research environment on the Internet for the legacy of Alexander von Humboldt. Based on the experiences of developing and providing the Humboldt Digital Library (www.avhumboldt.net) for more than a decade, we defined a working plan to create anThis article sets the focus on methods of information technology in the Humboldt Portal, which represents an ongoing research project to develop a virtual research environment on the Internet for the legacy of Alexander von Humboldt. Based on the experiences of developing and providing the Humboldt Digital Library (www.avhumboldt.net) for more than a decade, we defined a working plan to create an Internet portal for comprehensive access to Humboldt’s writings, no matter if documents are provided as PDF files, scan images or XML-TEI documents on external archives (Google Books, Internet Archive, Deutsches Textarchiv, Bibliotheque National de France). Going far beyond services of a digital library we will provide an information network with multimedia assets, which are containing objects like terms, paragraphs, data tables, scan images, or illustrations, together with correlated properties like thematic linkage to other objects, relevant keywords with optional synonyms and dynamic hyperlinks to related translations in different languages. So the Humboldt Portal can contribute to the key question, how to present interconnected data in an appropriate form using information technologies on the Web.…
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
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Conference Type: | Konferenzartikel |
Zitierlink: | https://opus.hs-offenburg.de/7134 | Bibliografische Angaben |
Title (English): | Humboldt's Idea of Interconnectedness as an Internet Portal |
Conference: | 6th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics jointly with The 21st International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (March 10-13, 2015 : Orlando, Florida USA) |
Author: | Detlev DoherrStaff MemberGND |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Creating Corporation: | International Institute of Informatics and Systemics |
Page Number: | 4 |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 6th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2015 and the 6th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2015 |
ISBN: | 978-1-941763-15-5 |
URL: | https://www.iiis.org/CDs2015/CD2015IMC/IMCIC_2015/index.asp?id=0&area=3 |
Language: | English | Inhaltliche Informationen |
Institutes: | Fakultät Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik (M+V) |
Institutes: | Bibliografie |
Tag: | Alexander von Humboldt; Archives; GIS; Google Maps; Internet portal; digital library; dynamic hyperlinks; information network; interconnected data | Formale Angaben |
Open Access: | Open Access |
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Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |