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Historical Wiki of Vienna –

the largest city wiki A historical knowledge database

Christoph Sonnlechner Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv

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Cooperation

Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna and Vienna City Library

technical assistance: KDZ – Centre for Public Administration

Research, IT-Department of the City

+ Partners: Wien Museum, Department of Culture; Magistrate of

Vienna; External institutions: Society for the history of Vienna,

Mediathek TMW, Institute for Austrian Historical Research etc.

Online: September 11th, 2014

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Motivation

- Archives: Continuation of the historical encyclopedia of Vienna,

called „Czeike“ (Director of the Archives 1976-1989): Felix

Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien (6 volumes, last update

2004) and connecting the encyclopedia with content of the

Archival Information System (WAIS: www.wais.wien.at)

License agreement with the publisher Kremayr &

Scheriau KG: Purchase of rights by the city of Vienna

- Library: Concept for a digital history of the city: „Wien digital“

> Transfer of historical knowledge of the city; knowledge

management

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Central Aims

georeferenced digital knowledge platform for the Viennese history

based on Felix Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien (6 Bände); spatial

reference: all territory that in history has been part of the city.

Bringing together of historical knowledge about the city of Vienna

from the administration of the city and external experts in the field.

Continuous growth and update of historical knowledge about Vienna

The City shares its data with citizens and enables contribution.

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Team

Editorial Staff: three persons from the archives, three from the

library; in the future three persons from the Wien Museum. This team

also bulit up the Wiki and now secures quality standards referring to

texts and images.

In both institutions, there is one person responsible for

organization/content and another one for the technical aspects

15 students: adapted the content of the encyclopedia to the Wiki:

summer 2013

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Technology

Semantic MediaWiki

Advantages Wiki-Technology: well known, cost free, approved,

developed and supported by an international non-profit organization

(Wikimedia Foundation), and developed further without any costs for

the city

Wiki in contrast to data bases searchable > chances to find content

higher. Easy access for the public.

Data security assured: hosted by the IT of the city.

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Forms Structured requests of database possible

> Additional value in contrast to Wikipedia: data base queries!

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Forms

> Basis produced by 15 students during the summer of 2013

Persons: Short biographies for approx. 8.500 persons

Topographic objects: approx. 10.200 streets, places, hills, rivers,

historic suburbs, etc.

Buildings: approx. 4.700 houses, churches, bridges, monuments,

etc.

Organizations: approx. 800 companies, societies, institutions, etc.

Events: approx. 60

Diverse: approx. 3.700

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Legal Conditions of Use

Approx. 28.000 Artikel, approx. 1.400 images

Legal restrictions:

- External contributors convey all rights they have on texts and images

to the city of Vienna

- Images are under the license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Open Government Data

Due to the open government data guide-line of the City of Vienna,

Wiki data will be provided in the future. Due to legal restrictions only

the content of the database (visible through the forms) will be offered

as OGD.

Prerequisite: Data must be added and improved by experts before

released

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Thank you!

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