Virtual Places
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| - | “[http://www.pierre-marteau.com/resources/cities.html Virtual Places]” and “Real Travellers” – are two projects to be seen in context. | + | {{Marteau Web Project}} |
| - | Real Travellers is in this context a collection of travelogues written in the century between 1650 and 1750. “Virtual Places” a collection of sites on different places of this world. We should connect them both. | + | {|cellpadding="10" width="1400" cellspacing="30" align="left" |
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| - | Imagine we would offer the travelogues of several travellers getting to one and the same place. Traveller A visits London in 1695, traveller B does the same and yet no longer the same more than a decade later in 1709. One could offer their texts with commentary as individual texts but one could also begin to link these texts. How do their views relate to each other? How did they experience one and the same place? One should offer links between both accounts and one would at the same time see the place from two perspectives – a time lapse and perhaps the cultural background would colour the experiences. The e-text edition is one thing. The commentary we should add another. The urban space both accounts would cover would be the third: Imagine a site under the title Virtual [[London]] would offer you the maps and images for both accounts. Imagine you could follow your travellers through the town reading their 17th- and 18th-century tourist guides. | + | ===Editorial=== |
| - | This is the aim of the project. Contact the editors at [mailto:verlagshaus@pierre-marteau] if you want to join us and if you have texts you could share and you had always dreamed of bringing into a wider context. We should create this context. | + | ''Virtual Places'' is a project designed to connect visual and textual information - from maps to travelogues and data series - on countries and individual places all around the world. |
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| + | Wikipedia has become a medium of general use. Imagine we could get historians from different fields to feed their special knowledge into a special Wikipedia remaining in the past and linking within it. Imagine what Robert Darnton did for Paris with his [http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.1/ah000001.html An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris] – was done by more than one hand with more than one perspective on a much wider scale. | ||
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| + | This is the aim of this project. Contact the editors at [mailto:verlagshaus@pierre-marteau verlagshaus@pierre-marteau] if you want to join us and if you feel ready to open pages on aspects of early 18th century cities and towns you have investigated into. Get an account and start something colleagues might join. | ||
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[edit] EditorialVirtual Places is a project designed to connect visual and textual information - from maps to travelogues and data series - on countries and individual places all around the world. Wikipedia has become a medium of general use. Imagine we could get historians from different fields to feed their special knowledge into a special Wikipedia remaining in the past and linking within it. Imagine what Robert Darnton did for Paris with his An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris – was done by more than one hand with more than one perspective on a much wider scale. This is the aim of this project. Contact the editors at verlagshaus@pierre-marteau if you want to join us and if you feel ready to open pages on aspects of early 18th century cities and towns you have investigated into. Get an account and start something colleagues might join. |
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