Person Data Repository of the 19th Century
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The project “Construction of a repository for biographical data on historical persons of the 19th century” – short form: Person Data Repository – enhances the existing approaches to data integration and electronically supported research in biographies. It investigates connecting and presenting heterogeneous information on persons of the “long nineteenth century” (1789–1914). The project's aim is to provide a de-central software system for research institutions, universities, archives, and libraries that allows combined access on biographic information from different data pools.
| Project start date: 2009-07 | Project end date: 2011-06 |
Subject domains:
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Data mining | Data analysis |
| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Parsing | Data analysis |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Topic Detection and Tracking | Data analysis |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Visualisation | Data analysis |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| text mining | Data analysis |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) | Metadata standards |
| Collaborative publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
Funding sources:
DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Perl, Java, PHP, XSLT, Fedora Commons, Oxygen
Source material used:
Biographical information from databases and indexes
- Acta Borussica (Protocols of the Prussian Ministry of State, The Prussian State and Culture)
- Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschungsstelle
- Archive of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Classical Berlin
- "Jahresberichte" of German History
- Marx and Engels, Complete Works
- Wilhelm von Humboldt, Complete Letters
- German Historical Institute in Rome
(more to follow)
Digital resource created:
Biographical Data from heterogeneous sources, decomposed into single biographical statements, semantically tagged, with references to persons, places, dates and sources. Interfaces for research and data exchange are being developed.
Data Formats created:
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, simple (DC), Dublin Core, qualified (DC), Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), Metadata Authority Description Standard (MADS), Historical Event Markup and Linking Language (HEML), Encoded Archival Context (EAC)
Publications:
publications planned on the following topics:
- Content Modelling
- Database Repository Software Evaluation
- Text Mining
- Content Modelling
- Database Repository Software Evaluation
- Text Mining
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| TELOTA |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Gerald Neumann, Fabian Körner, Torsten Roeder, Niels-Oliver Walkowski |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), PhD student(s) |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Torsten Roeder |
| Title | Person Data Repository of the 19th Century |
| Record created | 2010-01-07 |
| Record updated | 2010-01-25 16:26 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3178 |
| Citation of record | Torsten Roeder: Person Data Repository of the 19th Century. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3178> created: 2010-01-07, last updated 2010-01-25 16:26 |