Projektnummer

0060972

Zusammenfassung

The availability of extensive digital media creates important new challenges. The World Wide Web offers huge amounts of image material, that opens up new avenues for innovative investigation, including in the field of post-colonial and global studies. However, between repositories, big data, Wikipedia or Flickr, the connections between materials are getting lost. Metadata have to be added painstakingly and manually into the system - otherwise numerous sources will remain unexplored and closed to research. This is where the Dutch-German project starts: In cooperation between historians ...