Vienna History Wiki
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Type of site | Wiki on thehistory of Vienna |
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| Available in | German |
| Owner | City of Vienna |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | no |
| Registration | Required for editing (free wien.gv.at user account) |
| Launched | September 11, 2014 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (with exceptions) |
Vienna History Wiki(German:Wien Geschichte Wiki) is a freely accessibleonlinecollection ofreference worksinGermanabout the history ofVienna.The main content of the wiki are persons, buildings, topographical objects (streets, parks, waters, districts...), organisations, events and other items (such as special German expressions used in Vienna). It is written by Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna and Vienna City Library staff as well as external experts, and all content is subject to an editorial process and approved before publication.
Background[edit]
The "Vienna History Wiki" was built up by the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna (MA8) and the Vienna City Library (MA 9). It was opened to the public in 2014. It is a historical knowledge platform of the City of Vienna aiming at combining knowledge from the city administration with those of external experts. Amongst several departments of the City of Vienna, other project partners are continuously working on the content, e. g. theVienna Museum,Jewish Museum Vienna,Association for the History of Vienna, Austrian Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Environmental History,Austrian Mediathek.[1]
Cornerstone of the wiki are more than 27,000 articles (31,000 entries) of the six-volume encyclopedia „Historisches Lexikon Wien "edited byFelix Czeike(2nd edition 2004).
The Vienna History Wiki usesSemantic MediaWiki,where facts from the wiki pages are stored and can be retrieved inside the wiki as well as exported in different formats (e. g.JSONorRDF). Since 2021 is mainly usesSchema.orgas vocabulary for theontology.The wiki is still growing, and demonstrates a satisfied user base[2]
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References[edit]
- ^Krabina, Bernhard (2015). Riehle, Dirk (ed.)."The Vienna history Wiki: a collaborative knowledge platform for the city of Vienna".Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 19–21, 2015.ACM: 19:1–19:8.doi:10.1145/2788993.2789835.S2CID16545150.
- ^Krabina, Bernhard (2023)."Building a Knowledge Graph for the History of Vienna with Semantic MediaWiki".Journal of Web Semantics.76.Elsevier: 100771.doi:10.1016/j.websem.2022.100771.S2CID255024419.
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