The Dynamic Library

"The Dynamic Library presents essays in translation from an interdisciplinary symposium on the classification and organization of knowledge held at Sitterwerk, St.Gallen in Switzerland. Home to over 25,000 volumes on art, architecture, design, and photography, the Sitterwerk’s Kunstbibliothek (art library) began with the bequest of book collector and connoisseur Daniel Rohner (1948–2007). The question of how to systematically organize this idiosyncratic collection into a publicly accessible library was a fundamental concern, and a solution was found in a dynamic system of organization powered by RFID technology, which relies on digital tracking. The essays gathered in The Dynamic Library contextualize the Sitterwerk’s associative classification system amid artistic and historical systems of order while pointing to future methods for incorporating subjectivity and serendipity into the organization of knowledge." -- Publisher's website

The photographic Gaze — Austrian Visual Lives during the Occupation Decade

In May 1945 American troops entered Austria and soon thereafter established the Information Service Branch (ISB) of the United States Information Services (USIS) in Salzburg, the capital of the American zone of occupation. Between 1945 and 1955 the Pictorial Section of the USIS’s ISB produced and archived thousands of photographs for the ISB and its various units; it also provided national and international news agencies with pictures and documentation of all aspects of the political, economi..

METADATA GENERATION FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE: CREATIVE HISTORIES – THE JOSEFSPLATZ EXPERIENCE

Creative Histories is a Cultural Heritage application using a full 3D-navigation model for PC and mobile phones to navigate historical sites across different epochs, thus creating a new conceptual model for presenting and navigating spatio-temporally anchored cultural information. In this contribution we present the system’s metadata generation component. The major characteristics of which are: automatic extraction of presentation objects from legacy documents, storage of presentation objects in RDF/XML format along media type and semantic dimension, and online generation of interactive tours adapted to requirements of the device, user interests, user position in the spatial and temporal model, and user history

Imperiales Erbe und Nationale Identität. Das Werden der Nationalbibliothek der Republik Österreich

Im Rahmen eines Projektes des Österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) soll die Transformation der Hofbibliothek der Habsburgermonarchie in Wien zur Nationalbibliothek der Republik Österreich nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges vor dem kultur- und gesellschaftspolitischen Kontext untersucht werden. Der vorliegende Artikel unterrichtet über die Forschungsschwerpunkte.The transformation of the Court Library of the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna into the National Library of Austria after the First World War in the cultural and sociopolitical context will be examined within the framework of a project by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The following article presents the main areas of research.Peer Reviewe