Works as knowledge spaces

Project goals

Works in relation · Cross-disciplinary and cross-material networking

Access to authority data allows researchers to establish links to cross-disciplinary and cross-material holdings: objects, manuscripts, books, images, musical scores, dramaturgical adaptations, films and installations. Work titles serve as the basis for studying how literature is disseminated and can serve to establish links between multiple collections.

Encyclopaedia of works · Information bundling · Virtual knowledge space

Work titles serve to expand the GND knowledge space to include components of a bibliographical encyclopaedia of works. They bundle information and create cross-references to other entities, such as persons, enterprises and locations. Work titles provide insights into literary production and reception and reveal parallels and gaps in the literary canon.

New search possibilities · Bibliographical atlas

Authority data contains key elements for searching and locating information. By cross-linking these elements to other data and entities, the data creates a semantic web, from which new cross-disciplinary research questions are derived. In the second half of the project, researchers will test automatised processes which link catalogued materials with work-related authority datasets. As core elements of a “bibliographical atlas”, the authority data will create centralised search possibilities in the new catalogue of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek.