New features in the edition
New functions are regularly added to this edition and details of the edition are optimized. To allow returning visitors to keep up-to-date with new features, we want to use this page to inform you of improvements we have recently made to the edition. However, please remember that we can only present a selection here and limit it to features that you can already see in the edition.
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January 2012: Improved text search
Since the start of this edition, searching in the text of the “Teutschen Academie” has been very rudimentary: you could perform a page-wise search based on substring matching and get a result that was always sorted by the order of pages. Any more elaborate features were missing.
All the more, we are happy to introduce our new, improved search, which (as we hope) will overcome the shortcomings of the old search: it offers more control over what and where you would like to search and how the result should be presented. You can use manual word truncation, include the context of adjacent pages in the result or sort the matches by volumes or relevance – the choice is (finally!) yours.
November 2011: Additional view option for text pages
On text pages in the edition, you will now find a new view option. While by default we use two different fonts for displaying the text (a sans-serif font for Gothic print and a serif font for Antiqua), you can now disable this differentiation, if you prefer it that way.
September 2011: Improvement of the REST web service
To make it even easier to use our REST web service, any references to other objects which are linked to the current object, now contain the REST URLs of these objects. Additionally, the URL of the ‘regular’ HTML page for each object will be contained in the output.
Moreover, you can also retrieve a JSON representation of the data instead of XML. To do that, send an HTTP Accept header from your REST client, or simply add ?json=1 to the URL (which is much more convenient when testing in the browser).
August 2011: Dedicated pages and PURLs for annotations
All bylined annotations – whether in the text or in some database object – can now be accessed on their own page. The name of the annotation’s author (which you will always find below the annotation, together with the annotation’s date) is a link that will lead you to there. This new view not also allows for better printing of annotations, but also includes a PURL (as usual, in the top right region of the page) which makes it easer to cite specific annotations.
By the way: all annotations in the text of the “Teutsche Academie” can now be simply moved on the page, so they don’t get in your way and you can arrange them conveniently.
July 2011: Places hierarchy
To date, there was no hierarchy of records in the Index of Places – except the hierarchical relationships that were implied by the names: for instance, it should have become clear that the place Rome, Gianicolo is a part of the place Rome – but there was no explicit information on this fact.
This has changed. When viewing a place, you will now see relations towards subordinate places, as well as a relation toward the superordinate place (if appropriate). Moreover, this information can be used to search for a whole hierarchy of places, i.e.: all text occurrences of a place including text occurrences of all its subordinate places (cf. the image below for details).
July 2011: Direct links to records in the “Digitaler Portraitindex”
We now also offer direct links to related records in the recently launched Digitaler Portraitindex. You will find these links, as usual, on a person’s page below the headline “External resources”.
June 2011: Direct links to records in the “Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett”
Since late 2010, we have included direct links to records in the Deutsche Biographie for persons mentioned in ths edition. Now, we offer a similar feature for the Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett: whenever there is at least one record in the Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett that is associated with a person, you will find a direct link in that person’s record on this website.
April 2011: REST Web services
A large part of the information provided by us can now be retrieved using a simple REST API. Therefore, other projects are now enabled to, for instance, automatically refer to artwork records in our edition, or to display excerpts (seamlessly integrated into their own website!) from the “Teutsche Academie” where a certain person is mentioned.
A detailed description of the services can be found on the REST services information page. Please note that the description is currently available only in German. If you would like to use the service but do not understand the text, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to assist you.
February 2011: Finding digital representations of books in the bibliography
In the bibliography, you now have a new feature at your disposal. Using the checkbox “Only works for which a digital facsimile or fulltext representation is available online”, you can get a list of only those books that are freely available on the web.
January 2011: Category filter for people
In the Index of people, there was only an option for filtering artists—but nothing more. But this has changed: we not only have introduced more sophisticated artistic categories, but also added categories beyond the visual arts. However, the latter one has a small limitation, as these categories are only used for people who lived in or after the year 1240—according to Sandrart, the year of the “Wiedergebuhrt der Mahl-Kunst” (rebirth of the art of painting).
