- The Blumenbach TEI Datenbank provides a solid foundation towards the synthesis of disparate data sets.
- The Blumenbach TEI Datenbank leverages the latest developments in XML technology and provides a very flexible and robust information service.
- It is built on the eXist native XML database and exploits XRX architecture.
The Blumenbach TEI Datenbank aims to serve as a open data source for Bibliographic information on the writings of the German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.
Blumenbach was a prolific writer producing more than 80,000 pages of printed text in his lifetime.
He had a wide-range of influence, spanning internationally and across the Atlantic.
Researching and documenting the internal and external semantic relationships of Blumenbach's writings is a primary objective for the Blumenbach Online Project.
- To accomplish this objective, sophisticated tools, like the Blumenbach TEI Datenbank, are required.