In the report of July 23, 2022, by the German public television broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), the project Cartographies of Africa and Asia (1800–1945). A Project for the Digitization of Maps of the Perthes Collection Gotha is being featur...
One of the most important legacies of August Petermann was undoubtedly his founding and editorship of the Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes’ Geographischer Anstalt (later Petermann’s Geographische Mittheilungen, or PGM) in 1855, a scientific and cartogr...
Introduction When talking about software maintainability, we always imply that you can extend or change a given software (even by another person than the original maintainer) without breaking the code or introducing bugs. This premise assumes that ther...
Part map and part perspective view, the “Vue panoramatique” depicts a geopolitical fantasy in the year 1855: the construction of the Suez Canal was to start only four years later, and it would take another decade until the first ships were seen crossin...
Introduction Since 2004, the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) offers an aggregated metadata search over scientific publications. By indexing well over 300 million records (60% of which are open access1) from almost 10,000 international repositor...
Why you may want to have authenticated users There are a few features of web applications we – as users – grew accustomed to. Like bookmarking things on our favourite marketplaces for instance. For a Specialised Information Service, this fe...
Die BIS Blogs sind seit ein paar Tagen unter einer neuen Adresse zu finden:https://blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/Alle Links, die noch auf die alten Adressen unter ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de zeigen, werden automatisch umgeleitet, so dass sie weiterhin störungs...
On May 16, 1893, the cartographer Paul Langhans (1867–1952) wrote to German explorer Joachim Graf von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (1857–1924), a former farmer in the Orange Free State and colonial politician: “Highly esteemed Count! […] The crossing of Neu-Mecklenburg in 1:200,000 is now in autography, […]. I request a short text for the map, according to which also the lettering...
Wir, das DBIS-Team, möchten uns bei Felix herzlichst bedanken! Er hat unser Team und die Projektstr...
Aufgrund einer beruflichen Umorientierung werde ich das DBIS-Projekt und die UBR im April schweren H...
