1914-1918-online

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1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War is an international, English-language online encyclopedia on the First World War (1914–1918) that has been officially available online since October 8, 2014 and is considered the world's largest research network of its kind. The historical editors use the Semantic MediaWiki .

The digital scientific reference work, supported by numerous international partners (including the German Historical Institutes in London, Moscow, Paris, Rome and Warsaw as well as the Orient-Institut Istanbul ), was published in the run-up to the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war in 1914 by the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin ) and the Bavarian State Library in Munich and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2011 to 2015 with an amount of millions . Since 2016 there has been a follow-up funding from the DFG called “Open Encyclopedia System”.

The project leaders are Oliver Janz , Professor of Modern History at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute (FMI), Nicolas Apostolopoulos , Director of the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS), both FU Berlin, and Gregor Horstkemper from the Center for Electronic Publishing (ZEP) of the Bavarian State Library.

The aim of the project is to make global, recent research on the First World War available to the scientific community as well as the interested public from multiple perspectives via open access . Up to 1000 experts from over fifty countries are working on around 1500 entries for a comprehensive, ongoing project. The content is published under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). The citable texts with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) are subject to a peer review ( double blind ). 1914-1918-online is divided into several regions and topics; Search and navigation options (filters, registers, timeline) are used to display the media with images, maps, etc. a. processed article can be found. Networks and interfaces exist with other databases and information systems such as Europeana 1914–1918 , CENDARI , WorldCat and Zotero .

The Editorial Board is divided into seven General Editors ( Ute Daniel , Peter Gatrell , Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene , Alan Kramer and Bill Nasson ) and numerous Section Editors, plus the external reviewers approx. 100 people. The following scientists belong to the editorial advisory board: Annette Becker , Jürgen Danyel , Josef Ehmer , Gudrun Gersmann , Antonio Gibelli , Gerhard Hirschfeld , John Horne , Jürgen Kocka , Gerd Krumeich , Jürgen Osterhammel , Hew Strachan , Jay Winter and Erik-Jan Zürcher .

The project was selected in the American Library Association's “Annual list of Best Historical Materials” in 2015, and the directors and project team received the Berlin Digital Humanities Prize (2nd prize) for the reference work in 2015 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Partners | 1914-1918 online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1). Retrieved October 13, 2016 .
  2. ^ Open Encyclopedia System. Retrieved October 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Contributors | 1914-1918 online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1). Retrieved October 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Editorial Advisory Board. Retrieved October 13, 2016 .
  5. ↑ LWOOD: Annual list of Best Historical Materials selected by RUSA's History Section . February 1, 2015 ( ala.org [accessed October 13, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Berlin Digital Humanities Prize 2015 awarded. Retrieved October 13, 2016 .