Project PresentationAt the Annual Conference, Oct 5-7, 2011

ENCYCLOPEDIA DATABASEHIDDEN GRAMMARS OF TRANSCULTURALITY - MIGRATIONS OF ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE AND POWER D11 / HRA 15

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Step 1:Select encyclopedias and articles for digitization

Step 2:Scan selected articles

Step 3:Optical Character Recognitionor Manual Typing

Step 4:Proof-reading, basic TEI mark-up

Step 5:Content TEI mark-up and linking of contents to other resources

Step 6:Database design andprogramming

Step 7:Metadata, analyses, summaries, partial translations, notes, etc.

Step 8:Processing and linking of images and page scans

Step 9:Use and enrich in teaching and research all over the world

Winter term 2011/12:

Reading Exercise: “Reading Chinese Encyclopedias and related documents“(Dr. Wang, Institute of Chinese Studies)

Summer term 2012:

Seminar: “Migration of Knowledge in Encyclopedias“(Prof. Mittler, Prof. Herren, Prof. Judge, Cluster Asia and Europe)

Step 10:Share data with partners inDigital Humanities

http://encyclopedia.uni-hd.de