Encyclopedias and encyclopedism in the era of the Web
JLIS.it, 2021 The paper traces the development of digital encyclopedias through four main stages: 1. The age of the first text-based online services; 2. the age of multimedia CD-ROMs, mainly based on the idea of an offline multimedia encyclopedia; 3.
Gino Roncaglia
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Zur Struktur der biografischen Einträge in deutschen und polnischen Lexika und Enzyklopädien am Beispiel von Heinrich Laube [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2022 The aim of the article is to examine the lexical structure of the biographical entries in lexicons and encyclopedias. In the light of previous research questions, there’s no existing treatment of biographical encyclopedic keywords.
Katarzyna Tymińska
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis, 2021 The submitted study deals with various types of works written by 16th- and 17th-century Central European philosophy professors. Their intensive production is examined with the use of the following nine categories: 1. lectures, 2.
Joseph S. Freedman
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On exploring the Zaporozhian Sich’s kurins: origins of names, their timeline, and historical topography (encyclopedic aspects) [PDF]
Енциклопедичний Вісник України, 2023 The study is dedicated to the issue of information reliability in encyclopedias. The author, who recently published a monograph on the names of Zaporozhian Sich’s settlements [kurins] (this article serves as a reflection on it), illustrates how ...
Anatoly Avramenko
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An Analysis of the Place of Historical Studies and Historiographies in Encyclopedias and Ajayebnamehs (Wonderbooks) [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2015 With classification of sciences according to Muslim’s extent of thought and scope of knowledge in the early AH centuries the basis for the formation of encyclopedia writing knowledge was provided.
Mohammadreza Gholizadeh, Ali Shahvand
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Knowledge supply chains in an age of truth decay: The role of encyclopedias (Conference paper)
Studia Lexicographica, 2023 Our information sphere—the space where we not only express our opinions, but where we also form our opinions—is facing significant challenges. The core trends of »truth decay«— growing disagreement about facts; blurred lines between opinion and fact ...
Naja Bentzen
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Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases: content update in encyclopedias [Емерджентні та реемерджентні інфекційні хвороби: актуалізація знань в енциклопедичних виданнях] [PDF]
Енциклопедичний Вісник України, 2022 In the proposed study, it is noted that the published in Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine articles, devoted to infectious diseases, need to be updated. On the one hand, this is caused by the objective aging of the content. On the other hand, this is due to
Mykhaylo Andreychyn
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Knowledge and the Systematic Reader: The Past and Present of Encyclopedic Learning
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014 Though digital media have unquestionably affected the features and functions of modern encyclopedias, such works also continue to be shaped by factors thoroughly conventional by the end of the historical Enlightenment.
Seth Rudy
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Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2017 When discussing knowledge transfer processes in encyclopedias, it is helpful to address the “entangled histories” of Europe’s enlightened encyclopedias of the eighteenth century.
Ina Ulrike Paul
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The Ukrainian Encyclopedia of Religious Studies: history of the case and publishing trouble
Енциклопедичний Вісник України, 2020 The article reviews the Ukrainian Encyclopedia of Religious Studies that will be published soon. The encyclopedic work was prepared by the academic team 20 years ago.
Anatolii Kolodnyi, Liudmyla Fylypovych
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