Round Table
CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS
Chairs: Anita EICHINGER | Christoph SONNLECHNER
Description of the round table: The Internet has established itself in recent years as an important presentation and research instrument in the historical and cultural history area. Numerous institutions active in historic regional, provincial or communal contexts now offer internet portals on their topic. With this extension of their existing services, the institutions are confronted with a variety of cross-sectional tasks, which usually represent new fields of work for them. Portals are run by archives, libraries and museums sometimes in cooperation with each other. By means of maps (via GIS etc.) or encyclopedic articles, digitized documents from these institutions are displayed in a certain context via regional portals. Data can be offered through a semantic search or structured by other means. The aim of all these portals is to offer data in a structured manner. Digital Humanities would be one area of application for data from such portals but by far not the only one.
This panel asks for best practice examples. How can large amounts of borne digital and digitized historic documents from different collections and fonds referring to certain thematic or regional contexts be made searchable in a structured manner?
Target group: Archivists, librarians, curators of museums, employees of cultural administrations