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Detlev Doherr
The Humboldt Digital Library: Exploring Innovative Structures
2. Digital library
The text is the ultimate center of interest and point of orientation. Its presentation in the Internet is justified primarily because it is possible to present such a text in a way that brings to life the countless relationships that it suggests within and outside of Humboldt’s works.
The procedures and operations of the Humboldt digital library will adhere to the standards for digital libraries established by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
LINK based on LINUX operating systems to check the searchability of texts, structured in pages and paragraphs from different volumes. We installed EPRINTS and DSPACE to provide the digital library on a Web server and determine the best way for dynamic linking and knowledge based searching of information within the archive. The XML documents were stored as document files in our digital library and were used for system checks and developments of a prototype for text search, linkage to interactive maps and further editing of text.
In an early stage of our work the important question arose whether the library should contain documents in XML form with related style sheets or PDF files, which could be searched directly by automatic search on Internet (for example, Google) or whether we need complex database structures in relational databases, which can be managed by SQL (Structured Query Language). These questions needed to be resolved, and as we worked with the texts we soon realized that we had in our possession a solution that gave satisfactory answer to basic questions, explained in the next chapter.
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