Gudrun Wirtz (BSB München): Subject Gateways to Internet Resources for Russian and East European Studies
(Powerpoint-Datei zum Download als zip-Archiv: ca. 6,2 MB) As Internet resources are becoming more and more relevant for the learning, teaching and research community (virtual) libraries and other institutions in the last five years have been creating and maintaining subject gateways or "hubs" for their users. In contrast to search engines, Subject gateways gather high quality internet resources in particular subject areas. Resources are carefully selected - including the so called "hidden web" - and described by subject specialists according to international standards. Users therefore have various search possibilities and can also browse through the resources. The paper will present important gateways related to Russian and East European studies and discuss their general as well as specific problems. (Panel: The World Wide Web in Academic Studies of Eastern Europe, ICCEES-Kongress, Berlin, 25.-30. Juli 2005)
Thomas Zirngibl (ViFaOst): "Funny Characters" on the Internet - Unicode and other Ways of Handling Multilingual Websites
(Powerpoint-Datei zum Download als zip-Archiv: ca. 0,8 MB) Many suggestions have been made during the past centuries for a more coherent orthography of the English language, often including the use of special characters and diacritics. Unfortunately, none of them succeeded ... "unfortunately", because the English-speaking designers of the early computer character coding schemes thus had to consider only an extremely spartanic character set. All those who had to use characters beyond it, until very recently, had to put up with technical complications and limitations. For some years now, however, the new character coding standard Unicode has promised to give non-English alphabets an equal right to exist: Unicode claims to comprise all commonly used characters of all alphabets currently in use. This means (in theory) that Unicode-enabled applications can display texts in different languages at the same time, even mixed within one sentence. This feature plays an important role on the world wide web, considering the possibility of accessing websites in the entire world and of designing websites for the entire world. But, little surprise, Unicode as a rather new technology still presents its users a few obstacles to overcome. The presentation will demonstrate practical aspects of the use of Unicode by the example of ViFaOst as a website with multilingual content. (Panel: The World Wide Web in Academic Studies of Eastern Europe, ICCEES-Kongress, Berlin, 25.-30. Juli 2005)
Sabine Merten (ViFaOst): Web publishing - an accepted alternative option for the publication of academic texts?
(PDF zum Download, ca. 85 kB) While at first web publishing has been regarded with some distrust by the academic community, things have changed during the past years. With growing numbers of various online texts, articles and books, the acceptance of this medium for the publication of academic texts has considerably increased. The paper will deal with the advances and problems of online-publishing for authors and editors, such as digital rights, correct citation and long-term availibily of the texts. (Panel: The World Wide Web in Academic Studies of Eastern Europe, ICCEES-Kongress, Berlin, 25.-30. Juli 2005)
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