Project goals
WorldViews works towards the following goals:
- Development of a digital edition of textbook sources from all over the globe that allows viewers to gain insight through multiple perspectives into how countries and regions perceive the rest of the world and their place in it
- Promotion of the textbook as a resource for international research in history and the cultural sciences
- Reduction of language barriers through translations of the original source texts (German and English)
- Concentration of diverse region- and discipline-specific expertise in the academic preparation and contextualisation of the sources through the international network of cooperation partners
- Further development of digital tools for research on educational media by combining digital research infrastructure and cultural studies research
- Support of the eHumanities and their acceptance in cultural studies and the humanities
- User-oriented optimisation of externally funded research by linking project results and infrastructural elements that compliment each other
- of externally funded research and infrastructure development by combining each product with other project-specific offerings
- Technological integration and standardisation of individually developed digital products in the interest of holistic and viable concepts in order to counter the propagation of isolated solutions through a reuse and adaptation of BMBF-supported technological solutions
- Honing of the GEI’s circular approach, which brings together research, research infrastructure and transfer both conceptually and in practice
- Promotion of the Georg Eckert Institute’s internationalisation and networking role through computer-supported academic cooperation
- Strengthening of synergies between non-university institutions (the Georg Eckert Institute and Mannheim-based Institute for the German Language, Leibniz Association), university activities (universities in Göttingen, Braunschweig, Hildesheim and Hannover, as well as the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities or GCDH), and CLARIN-D (Berlin-Brandenberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Institute for the German Language, Mannheim)