Research Navigator organized a two-day workshop from 29 to 30 May, 2017, which took place at the Institute for European Global Studies (the University of Basel, Switzerland). Researchers from both the University of Heidelberg and Basel further explored the possibility to collaborate in the field of Historical Geographic Information Systems. Current research projects in the […]

This pilot project assesses so-called Directories, which provide information on economic relations in Asia since the mid of the 19th century. Besides details on the registry for companies and individuals, the Directories provided contemporary global readers with broadly diversified information related to respective relevant Asian regions important for foreign trade. The case of Asia exemplifies […]

In the context of Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch’s lecture on “Global Moments: Fin de siècle and Orientalism in 1900”, the Institute for European Global Studies organized a one-day workshop on data extraction on 27.10.2016. In the process, workshop participants for the first time actively used the method of extracting and generating table of contents, a […]