LEO-BW

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LEO-BW is a regional online information system for Baden-Württemberg , which is intended to offer central access to information and digitized cultural assets of the state. Numerous cultural, memory and scientific institutions are involved, whose holdings and data are presented in the portal and networked with one another. The Baden-Württemberg State Archives are in charge of the offer . The abbreviation LEO stands for L andeskunde e ntdeck o nline.

Content and functionality

The range of topics covered by LEO-BW includes the areas of regional history and culture, but also natural history, economics and technology. There are currently around 2.6 million data records from over 30 partner institutions in the portal (as of November 2017). This includes a high proportion of already digitized cultural assets, but pure metadata (catalog information) is also kept. In addition to various research options in the partner data, editorial contributions and a map module are available. A special feature of LEO-BW is that documents, media or buildings are linked to one another via relationships to people and places. This is done with recourse to the use of authority data ( linked data ).

In 2015, the Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg was integrated into LEO-BW as a data source.

On November 8, 2017, the thematic module “From the monarchy to the republic” was activated. It offers access to around 900,000 digitized individual documents or historically significant sources from the early phase of the Weimar Republic .

Another thematic module was published on February 22, 2018 with the Südwestdeutsche Archivalienkunde . It contains information on archival categories and source types from the early Middle Ages to the present day, and refers to the south-west of Germany in its historical dimensions.

prehistory

Regional studies have a tradition in Baden-Württemberg that goes back to the first half of the 19th century. In 1824, the systematic description of the Kingdom of Württemberg began with the aim of “promoting patriotism” with the descriptions of the upper office . The project was continued in 1964 under the leadership of the then State Archives Directorate and existed in the modernized form of the district descriptions until 2010.

In the Baden-Württemberg State Archive, established in 2005, which sees itself as a regional cultural competence center, initial considerations arose early on to build on the tradition of the Oberamt descriptions as well as the district descriptions with the options now available for digitization and online provision of cultural assets. The main idea was to bring together all information relevant to regional studies and in particular digitized cultural assets on Baden-Württemberg in an interdisciplinary cooperation project via a common access. The plans have been concretized since 2010 and implemented in a two-year project together with numerous partners.

For the 60th birthday of the state of Baden-Württemberg, LEO-BW was activated on April 25, 2012.

Cooperation partner

The content of the portal is provided by the following institutions:

organization

LEO-BW is a cooperation project and its content is supported by numerous institutions. The Baden-Württemberg State Archive is in charge of the implementation and control of LEO-BW, which finances the portal operation - supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and Art . All offers on the portal are free of charge for both users and participating institutions. The technical operator has been the Center for Data Processing at the University of Tübingen (previously the Baden-Württemberg Library Service Center) since 2016.

literature

  • Daniel Fähle and Andreas Neuburger: Regional history in digital change: the regional information system LEO-BW. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte , Vol. 150 (2014), pp. 559–568.
  • Daniel Fähle and Wolfgang Krauth: Regional information system for Baden-Württemberg. In: Ellen Euler , Monika Hagedorn-Saupe , Gerald Maier , Werner Schweibenz and Jörn Sieglerschmidt (eds.): Handbuch Kulturportale. Online offers from culture and science. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 3-11-040571-7 , pp. 284-291.
  • Wolfgang Zimmermann : Networking, visualizing, contextualizing: LEO - the regional information system for Baden-Württemberg. In: Robert Kretzschmar (Hrsg.): State archives as regional cultural competence centers in the past and present. For the 65th birthday of Volker Rödel. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-021683-9 , pp. 313-323.
  • Christian Keitel / Robert Kretzschmar: Southwest German archival studies. A new offer in the LEO-BW regional information system . In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine , Vol. 167, 2019, pp. 417-420.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release from the State Archives and the Commission for Historical Regional Studies on the online presentation of the digital version of the Historical Atlas. Retrieved August 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Press release from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts on the activation of the thematic module. Retrieved November 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Southwest German archival studies. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Press release from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in Baden-Württemberg on the activation of the thematic module on February 22nd, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Johann Daniel Georg MEMMINGER, description of Oberamts Reutlingen, 1824, pp II.
  6. ↑ Press release from the Ministry for Science, Research and Art in Baden-Württemberg on the activation of the portal by Theresia Bauer on April 25, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2017 .