Person Data Repository of the 19th Century
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Torsten Roeder on
Thu 07/01/2010 - 14:45
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 |
|---|---|
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collaborative publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Data mining | Data analysis |
| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Parsing | Data analysis |
| Preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Record linkages | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Resource sharing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text mining | Data analysis |
| Topic Detection and Tracking | Data analysis |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Use of existing digital data | Data capture |
| User contributed content | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Visualisation | Data analysis |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
Funding sources:
DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Content types created:
Software tools used:
- Fedora Commons
- Java
- Oxygen
- Perl
- PHP
- XSLT
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:
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:
| Other institutions involved: |
|---|
| Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| TELOTA |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Gerald Neumann, Fabian Körner, Torsten Roeder, Niels-Oliver Walkowski |
|---|---|
| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), PhD student(s) |
| External expertise: |
Tags: Cataloguing and indexing Coding and standardisation Collaborative publishing Content analysis Data mining Data modelling Documentation Geo-referencing and projection Indexing Interface design Parsing preservation Prototyping Record linkages Resource sharing Searching and querying Server scripting System quality assurance and code testing Text encoding - descriptive Text encoding - presentational Text encoding - referential Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) text mining Topic Detection and Tracking Usability analysis Version control Visualisation Web browser scripting
| 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 |
