Aeiou Encyclopedia

The Austria-Forum is a project of the nonprofit association "Friends of Austria Forum" with current server and Internet support from the TU Graz. The Austria - Forum is an " Austrian knowledge network ", an information portal primarily related to Austria, which is further developed both content and functional basis and can be used anonymously.

AEIOU was created in 1996 by order of the then Austrian Federal Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts as part of its Millennium projects as a cultural information system. In 2005 it was set against all criticism and pass the auspices of the Technical University of Graz, only after further protests. Since September 2007, Austria-Forum is achievable, which officially went online in October 2009.

History

Formation

All projects with the focus on " cultural data in electronically retrievable form ," which had been proposed to Austria in 1000 - year celebration in 1996 at the former BMWF were merged into a common project. In the course of this project a number of renowned Austrian scientists and experts prepared the Austrian Cultural Information System AEIOU.

As the support system of the AEIOU multimedia distributed information system Hyperwave, the Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media ( IICM ) was developed at the TU Graz serves. This cultural information system was in 1996 in Austria a comprehensive presentation in text and image, sound and film. The abbreviation " aeiou " stands for Annotierbares Electronic Interactive Oesterreichisches universal information system, AEIOU in interpretation of the old Austrian choice award

The basis of the data were all texts and pictures of 1995 by a Verlagsgemeinschaft newly released " Austria -Lexikon " ( 2 volumes, 14,000 headwords, approx. 2000 pictures about Austria from all fields of knowledge ) The web site is freely accessible, all content are protected by copyright. Usage is only permitted for personal use only. Any commercial use as well as a distribution and modification of the content is prohibited. For more information supplemented the lexicon in the form of " albums". Much of the information was available in English; in addition, there was an interactive component " Blame " (Read comments).

The end and the rebirth of aeiou.at

AEIOU had been planned from the beginning, not as a self-contained system, rather than arbitrarily extensible information system ( workflow management tool Hyperwave ), but had the AEIOU server due to financial (withdrawal of the required budget by the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and culture are engaged BMBWK), legal and logistical problems on 1 April 2005 ( the last maintenance of entries in the online version took place on 28 February 2003 ). Skinflint already announced in mid-March 2005, the imminent end for the hitherto comprehensive informational, non-commercial cultural site about Austria.

Negotiations with the then Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and the responsible publisher community meant that the faculty of computer science at the TU Graz ( under the then Dean Hermann Maurer ) was given permission to reactivate the server.

As of May 2006, a gradual revision of the German entries only in the Encyclopedia of Austria took place.

Austria-Forum

Since September 2007, AEIOU is embedded via the information portal Austria-Forum. On 9 October 2009, the Austria-Forum went online officially. The contents have since been found at the web address www.austria -forum.org.

Sponsoring organization is the non-profit Friends of the Forum in Graz Austria, which was founded by concerned people to the project in 2007 to operate the knowledge network. The body of the main editor consists of Hermann Maurer, Trautl Brandstaller, Peter Diem and Helga Maria Wolf.

Offer

Essentially, it consists of 3 blocks with a total of 219 259 entries (as of December 2011)

  • AEIOU Austria Lexicon
  • Knowledge bases (special lexicons )
  • Community Area

The alphabetical AEIOU Encyclopedia of Austria, data on the basis of a print dictionary in 2 volumes ( founded by Richard and Maria Bamberger and Franz Maier- Bruck ) with almost 20,000 entries, is continuously revised ( expanded and updated ).

The collections of knowledge editorially created include topics such as folklore, fauna, flora, biographies, state symbols, Castles, stamps, coins, monuments, museums, etc. In addition there is a library with a number of prepared for the Austria-Forum illustrated books on the one hand and the Web Books on the other hand ( digitized books, stepless magnification, written in Gothic texts can be displayed by pressing the Latin alphabet).

  • Picture Album: was an excerpt from the image database AustroDir 1000, which was developed at the Institute of Material Culture of the Middle Ages and the early modern period of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. It contained footage on the history and culture of Austria from the Middle Ages to the end of the Second World War. with images of a thousand years of history, art and culture of Austria, selected according to a variety of topics.
  • Stamp Album: included all Austrian commemorative stamps of the Austrian Postvon 1986-1996
  • Music Album: As contributions to the music album were on the one hand a music history of Austria supplied by the Department of Musicology, University of Graz with sound samples, on the other hand works by famous Austrian composers were integrated into the information system, composed by music educator Manfred signs according to the principle "See - understanding - listening - feeling " in the form of music colleges were processed online media-friendly.
  • Video Album: From the Austrian Federal Institute for Scientific Film became the key words of the lexicon matching historical film material from the film archive Laxenburg chosen, which was introduced in the form of video clips in the video album. Also from the ORF Archive appropriate material has been selected and integrated to supplement the culture - information system.
  • Photo Album: with a collection of photos of Austria advertising ( over 1500 pictures of the most beautiful places in Austria and 60 panoramic shots of Vienna and vicinity)
  • Designer Album: a presentation of more than 500 Austrian contemporary designers and their work, created by the Museum of Applied Arts ( MAK). The MAK Design Info Pool (DIP) is a technology developed in the context of applied research since 1989 gathering information on Austrian design of the 20th and 21st centuries.
  • Sigmund Freud Album: a biographical overview of Sigmund Freud, including a detailed chronology, bibliography, and a thematic documentation, prepared by the Sigmund Freud Museum in cooperation with the Institute for New Culture Technologies (t0)
  • Austria online: A collection of links to information about Austrian art and culture (eg museums, Austrian National Library, Literature House, Center for Architecture )

Among the new content that has been re-created in the project Austria-Forum include:

  • The symbols of Austria ( Peter Diem )
  • ABC to folklore of Austria ( Helga Maria Wolf)
  • Atlas on the history of Austria ( Based on the work of Manfred tickler )
  • Biographies, Austrian inventor, Great Composers (Author Collective )
  • Monuments, freestanding sculpture and other important works of art, museums in Austria (Peter Diem, Helga Maria Wolf)
  • Austrian fauna, flora, fossils (various authors )
  • Austrian German (Robert Sedlaczek )
  • Political Knowledge - Civic Education ( in collaboration with the Democracy Centre Vienna)
  • Essays - longer certain supplements AEIOU Encyclopedia posts

Another collection is the native lexicon in cooperation with ServusTV: it includes more than 700 contributions on special features of Austria's landscape and culture. The user of the Austria - Forum can vote on it, to be filmed by ServusTV what contributions.

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