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English Version
Project management: Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz, Prof. Dr. Nicolas Apostolopoulos
Project coordination: Dr. Christian Westerhoff (Tel: +49 30 838 52089)
Editorial office: Dr. Jennifer Willenberg (Tel: +49 30 838 53858)
Project assistant: Janika Urig, M.A. (Tel: +49 30 838 52984)
Start: 1.10.2011
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Address: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Koserstr. 20
D-14195 Berlin
Room: A 340
Editors:
Prof. Dr. Ute Daniel (TU Brunswick)
Prof. Dr. Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz (FU Berlin)
Dr. Heather Jones (London School of Economics)
Prof. Dr. Alan Kramer (Trinity College Dublin)
Prof. Dr. Bill Nasson (University of Stellenbosch)
Over the course of three years, the international joint research project "1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War” is developing an English-language virtual reference work on the First World War. Planned to be released in 2014, the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, the online encyclopedia will be the result of an international collaborative project to make available a multi-perspective, publicly access knowledge base on the First World War.
The project board and project management are located at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Project managers are Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz, historian at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of Freie Universität Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Nicolas Apostolopoulos, director of the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS), also at the Freie Universität Berlin. The third institution involved in administrating this project is the Bavarian State Library (Munich). Important contributors are also the German Historical Institutes in Paris, Warsaw and Moscow. Renowned international experts in historical scholarship will write the articles for the encyclopedia. The Editorial Board, made up of around 40 well-known historians from 14 countries, will be responsible for the assessment and quality management of the contributions.
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board: Institutional Background
Under the programme “Scientific Library Services and Information Systems“, the German Research Funding Organization (DFG) is supporting the project with a grant of around 1 million Euros.
Down to the present day, the image of the First World War focuses on Central and Western Europe. However, WWI constituted not only a pan-European war but also the first truly global war in world history: it was a world-wide economic war in which numerous non-European states participated and for which the European powers mobilized the resources of their colonial empires. These perspectives will be an important factor in the encyclopedia. Thus, “1914-1918-online” will not only reflect the increasingly international research on the First World War, but also significantly advance it by identifying gaps and desiderata.
"1914-1918-online" represents a major undertaking in digital history publication under the Open Access paradigm by promoting free and unlimited dissemination of the content to individual users, search engines, and reference services. This availability will be complemented by novel navigation schemes that allow users non-linear access throughout the text convolute via thematic contexts, regional contexts and conceptual encyclopedia entries (e.g. 'Propaganda'). The platform will be designed to enable users to follow threads according to their specific question of interest, integrating a broad range of texts from various contexts in a way that is appropriate to the hypertextuality of the medium. Visualizations of thematic connections will encourage the navigation of the encyclopedia in ways that expand on the standards of current digital history publications.
For more information see http://www.1914-1918-online.net
