DBIS PolitIcon Project

Goals

• Electronic Warburg Library Hamburg: honorary consulting regarding its telecommunication and computing infrastructure
• Construction of an open multi-media workbench to support the daily work of art history researchers (image scanning, text editing, image and text classification, linking, publication, etc.)
• Research and development towards a Kiosk application (Friedensspiele) for a European exhibition in Münster, 1998 (350. Jahrestag des Friedens von Münster und Osnabrück)

Work Items

xx/94-xx/95, Gerd Bremer, Jens Wahlen[##Slides]

Tycoon demonstration: Index zur Politischen Ikonographie, WWW demonstration

xx/94-3/95, Thomas Sidow, Florian Matthes

Proposals and consulting for the telecommunication and computing infrastructure to be established at the Warburg library (networks, hardware, software).

xx/94-3/95, Thomas Sidow

Experiments with scanning software and hardware (resolution, image formats, space requirements)

9/94-5/95, Andreas Bösch, [Info] [Protokolle]

PolitIcon project: object-oriented analysis and design, VisualBasic prototype implementation

22/1/95 Andreas Bösch, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmidt, [##Minutes] [##Slides]

Meeting: Computer support for art history research. Presentations of existing projects and prototypes in the area

3/95-5/95, xx Weikart

Scanning of 3000 images (topic: Krieg und Frieden) using DBIS equipment

4/95-5/95, Ilona Hachmann [Info]

Text data acquisition for 180 selected postcards into standardized markup text

4/95-5/95, Ulrike Steffens [Info]

Full-text indexing of 180 text data items using INQUERY and Tycoon.

4/95-5/95, Gerd Bremer [Info]

Preparation of Warburg electronic library demo (WWW etc.)

Demonstrations

20/4/94 Inauguration of the Warburg library building

Presentation of the vision: Electronic Warburg Library, Hamburg.

General and specific WWW services ("Schlacht von Nördlingen") integrating images, texts, and databases.