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...
Location: Centre for Transcultural Studies, Gotha Research Campus Dates: 24th-25th November 2022. This conference will explore cartography and the construction and contestation of territoriality in Asia from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century...
Mehrere Hundert Bibliotheken und Forschungseinrichtungen aus aller Welt beteiligen sich seit vielen ...
Often this blog has alluded to the networks of the Justus Perthes Publishing House, which were nurtured and maintained by its leading spokesmen during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. August Petermann, a central figure in the history of the ...
Like many other Specialised Information Services (FID), we are working with XSLT to map XML metadata from data providers to our data model, an extended version of the RDF-XML based Europeana Data Model (EDM). In the FID Performing Arts (FID DK), we cur...
On January 18th, 2022, the team of the digitisation project Cartographies of Africa and Asia (KarAfAs) hosted a panel under the title “Epistemologien der Digitalisierung. Digitale Repositorien und ihre Folgen für Wissenschaft und Forschung” to discuss ...
Die Statistik zeigt uns auch für das Jahr 2021, dass DBIS in der Forschungscommunity und in der Bib...
Das DBIS Projekt-Team konnte pünktlich zum 31. Januar 2022 die Phase Alpha 2 abschließen, somit ha...