An open access encyclopedia of the First World War was released online in October 2014, with contributors including around 1,000 experts from 54 countries.
Researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Bavarian State Library, manage the English-language encyclopedia. It uses recent historical research, and will be updated and expanded continuously.
The online encyclopedia ‘1914–1918-online’ aims to provide a pan-European and global perspective, reflecting the increasingly international nature of research on the First World War, with an open-access knowledge base, combining Wiki technology with historical study.
The project is headed by Professor Dr. Oliver Janz, a historian at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of Freie Universität Berlin, and Professor Dr. Nicolas Apostolopoulos, the director of the Centre for Digital Systems, Freie Universität Berlin. The Bavarain State Library, Munich, is also involved in this project.
Other important contributors include the German Historical Institutes in London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, and Warsaw, as well as the Orient Institute in Istanbul.
For more information go to the Online Encyclopedia, or the Project Website.
Posted by: Ellen Tranter, Centenary News