Vienna History Wiki

Vienna History Wiki (Wien Geschichte Wiki) is a freely accessible online collection of reference works in German about the history of Vienna. 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).

Wien Geschichte Wiki
Type of site
Wiki on the history of Vienna
Available inGerman
OwnerCity of Vienna
URLwww.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at
Commercialno
RegistrationRequired (free wien.gv.at user account)
LaunchedSeptember 11, 2014 (2014-09-11)
Current statusActive
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (with exceptions)

Background

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. the Vienna 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 by Felix Czeike (2nd edition 2004).

The Vienna History Wiki uses Semantic 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. JSON or RDF).

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gollark: What's UDTP?
gollark: As planned.
gollark: Is this apioforum to be pythonous?

See also

References
  1. Krabina, Bernhard (2015). Riehle, Dirk (ed.). "The Vienna history Wiki: a collaborative knowledge platform for the city of Vienna" (PDF). 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.


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