WORKING PROCEDURES TO ADD INFORMATION

A) Get information on persons of interest

1. Open source object of your choice

Option 1: Take any source of interest with information on academic careers you have at hand.

Option 2: Open Kieler Professorenkatalog by Volbehr in Geovistory

Step 1: open card of source object “Volbehr, Professoren” & click on table

Open

Step 2: open table & filter according to medicine

• open table

• add text break & adjust columns

• filter for “Medizin”

• select person of interest

Open

Option 3: Open Online Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis

Step 1:

•Professorenkatalog «Volbehr/Weyl 1956 Online»:

•Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis:

Step 2:

• filter for example for “Medizin”

or

→ select person of interest

B) Produce information in Geovistory

1. Add source reference if not existing

• open “source section” & add the source type in question, for example websource.

2. Add new person if not existing

• open “entity section” & add a person

• fill in the name and check whether already existing

3. Add information about their life

• open “person card”

• activate the edit mode

• select for example “birth”

• fill in the information you have at hand

4. Add information on their academic education & career

• open “person card”

• activate the edit mode

4.1 academic titles

• to add information on academic titles select “has obtained”

• fill in information as below

4.2 study activities

• select “carries out” and select “study”

• fill in information as below as needed

  • academic discipline

  • time span

  • etc.

4.3 membership in an association/group

• select “is member of” and add a “membership”

  • indicate the time period

  • indicate of which group this person was a member (you have to create the group as well)

  • you can indicate a type of membership if wished by clicking on “advanced form”. For this, you have to create the types in the vocabulary section

Define role/function in “association” attached to this membership

if you want to add precise information about the role

• add all roles as “social roles”, eg. “President of the National Student Organisation of Switzerland”

if you want to add generic information about the role

• add all roles as “social qualities”, eg. “President of an Association” in the vocabulary section

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• in both cases (generic or specific) you can then indicate in which quality a person had during its membership by selecting the corresponding social role or social quality

4.4 information about jobs and position that a person held (such as a professorship/academic chair)

if you want to add specific information about the job/position

• add all roles as “social roles”, eg. “rector of the University of Kiel” or “Chair of Chemistry at the University of Kiel”

• open the entity card of a person and activate edit mode

• add for each person a “social role embodiment” (temporal) selecting “embodies”

if you want to add generic information about the job/position

• add all jobs as “social qualities”, eg. “rector of a University” or “professor”

• open the entity card of a person and activate edit mode

• select “has social quality” and then “social quality of an actor (temporal)”

5. Add GND or other reference number

• open person card

• activate the edit mode

• select “has identification”

• select “concerns identifier”

C) Link information with Source

• open person card

• go to the right side panel and select “Annotations”

• select “is mentioned in” & link it to the table or source reference of your choice

D) Visualize

• open “analysis section”

• select pre-configured visualisations such as “Geburtsorte” or “gegor. Promotions- Habilitationsorte”

• click on “run” and explore