This chapter analyzes administrative efforts to control epizootic disease in eighteenth-century Schleswig-Holstein as disaster management. It points to the importance of quarantine, slaughter, and the control of trade as the principal methods adopted by governments and draws links with the methods used to control plague in humans. The chapter…[Read more]

The paper discusses the question whether methods applied in work with prosopographical data can be integrated into an ”International
Proposography Interoperability Framework” (IPIF) comparable to the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework). It suggests
basing this upon a RESTful interface defined in a publicly available def…[Read more]

The paper describes the special interest in edition by historians and the resulting editorial practice in contrast to the methods applied by pure philological textual criticism. The interest in historical ‘facts’ suggests methods trying to create formal representations of the information conveyed by the text in structured databases. This can be…[Read more]