New Online Encyclopedia Devoted to World War I Is Now Accessible
Contributors Include Some 1,000 Experts from 54 Countries
Dec 19, 2014
French soldier in a street of the French village Etricourt.
Image Credit: Bundesarchiv
A comprehensive, English-language, open access encyclopedia of the “Great War” is online. It combines the latest historical research with the advantages of the Semantic Web. The encyclopedia was written and compiled by some 1,000 experts from 54 countries, and it is continuously being updated and expanded.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of World War I, which is considered to be the “great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century.” This anniversary is an important point of reference for the creation of a transnational and global historical consciousness, offering a chance to discuss the roots of and possibilities for European integration.
The online encyclopedia “1914–1918-online” provides a comprehensive description of the “Great War” from a pan-European and global perspective. It is a user-friendly and easily applicable digital work resource. The project is headed by Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz, a historian at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of Freie Universität Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Nicolas Apostolopoulos, the director of the Center for Digital Systems, Freie Universität Berlin. The project is managed by researchers at Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Bavarian State Library. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).
Links to the Online Encyclopedia and Project Website
Online Encyklopedia: http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/home/
Project Website: www.1914-1918-online.net