There is this amazing article in the German Fundamental Law, called article 20a. It says: “Der Staat schützt auch in Verantwortung für die künftigen Generationen die natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen und die Tiere im Rahmen der verfassungsmäßigen Ordnung durch die Gesetzgebung und nach Maßgabe von Gesetz und Recht durch die vollziehende Gewalt...
My book From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis was published by Open Book Publishers in July 2023. You can read it online, download the pdf, or purchase printed copies at: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0355. In this book, I reflect on access to text in the digital...
In my previous post, I described my method to prepare the writing of the ODD for the EHRI Online Editions. Now that the overview table is complete, the results are ready to be transformed into the final ODD. As a reminder, ODD stands for “One Document Does-it-all” and contains the...
As one of the interns involved in the development of the application, I encountered several challenges throughout the process. This blog post outlines the problems faced, the attempted solutions, and the ultimate resolutions achieved, along with additional design enhancements. Let’s delve into each issue and its respective solution. Unexpected text...
A little context The source: EHRI Online Editions The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) is a transnational organization which promotes, among other things, collaboration on Holocaust research and easy access to scattered sources. In 2018, they published their first digital edition: BeGrenzte Flucht. Since then, they have worked on several...
As a scientist, I have to live with an unbearable contradiction: while science is producing all the data that show that we find ourselves in the midst of a massive climate and biodiversity crisis – as well as the models that would make it possible for us to avoid worst...
I have spent five months writing a book. It turns out, when you write a book, there remains little time to blog. Then by September my sabbatical ended, and there remained time for about nothing. As I have started rattling around in the wheel of everyday academic madness again, it...
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