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Abstract Recent technical developments made it realistic that individual historians could have work stations on their desks, which would allow them access to multi-GB collections of archival documents in digitized form. The problem with such a collection is, that the information systems of different archives... view more
Recent technical developments made it realistic that individual historians could have work stations on their desks, which would allow them access to multi-GB collections of archival documents in digitized form. The problem with such a collection is, that the information systems of different archives usually handle their archival material in such a way, that it becomes very hard to extract content from one of them and integrate them into a local information system optimized to support the research interests of a specific user. An architecture for information system is described, which maximizes the possibility to transfer documents between different such systems. This architecture is based upon the concept of digital objects representing individual documents which contain all the semantic information necessary to integrate them seamlessly into different information systems.... view less
Keywords
computer science; historian; digitalization; data exchange; information system; digital media; data processing
Classification
Natural Science and Engineering, Applied Sciences
Free Keywords
digital humanities; manuscript processing; digital libraries; autonomous digital objects; Bildverarbeitung
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 243-259
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2017) 29
Issue topic
From History to Applied Science in the Humanities
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.29.2017.243-259
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed