Q: Name of project:
Entwicklung der jüdischen Bevölkerung in der Pfalz im 19. und 20. Jhd.
Q: Name of project IN ENGLISH:
Development of Jewish Population in the Palatinate during the 19th and 20th century.
Q: Principal researcher(s):
Frank Swiaczny
Q: Who can/should be contacted now, and how?
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Name: |
Frank Swiaczny, Dipl.-Geogr. |
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Postal Address: |
Dept. of Geography, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany |
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E-mail Address: |
swiaczny@rumms.uni-mannheim.de |
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Web site: |
Q: When did the research start?
1996
Q: Is the project still in existence? If it has ended, when did it end? If it still exists, when is it expected to end?
Yes. Final research report in 2001 for work already in progress. Project may continue.
Q: What institution(s) was/is the project based in?
First: Dept. of Geography, University of Mannheim, from 10/2000: together with Dept. of History, University of Mannheim.
Q: How many people were/are employed, and for how long? Were these people recruited specially for the project, or were they already employed by the institution(s)?
Part of the work was funded. I had also some help from the research assistants of the Dept. of Geography (without funding). Part of the future work on the CD-ROM/Website will be done in collaboration with a commercial partner. In October a historian will join the project for further data collection and publication of the research report.
Q: How much did the project cost?
The project has no formal budget. Since 1996 I got a total funding of 10.000 DEM/5.000 Euro.
Q: Who paid for the project?
Society of the Friends of the University.
Q: If the project is still underway, has all necessary funding to complete the project been raised?
No. Our commercial partner will pay for the production of the final CD-ROM. We will apply for a final funding to publish the research report in 2001.
Q: How easy has it been to raise the money?
It was easy to get the funding from the Society of the Friends of the University. It was impossible to apply for a funding to cover all costs of the project (no funding scheme for this kind of project).
Q: Other than raising the money, what are the biggest problems your project has faced?
Working without money. No time to work continuously for the project.
Q: How likely is it that further funding might be raised within your country for a collaborative European project?
Unlikely. There is no government organisation interested and the major scientific funding organisation (DFG) refuses to fund atlas projects.
Q. What geographical area is covered by the project? What is the MODERN legal status of this area? (i.e. is it a nation state, a province of a nation state, etc). If the area currently lacks a legal definition, when was it defined and by whom?
The Palatinate and Mannheim. The Palatinate is a former part of the Bavarian state and has no modern counterpart. Mannheim is included because, lying at the border of the Palatinate, Mannheim was the most important city for the Palatinate.
Q: Does the project aim to: (a) Reconstruct boundaries at a single date (b) Reconstruct boundaries at a series of dates (c) Construct a continuous record of changing boundaries over a period
C (changing adminsitrative changes). For research purposes we transformed all data to boundaries of a single time slice.
Q: What is the earliest date covered by the project?
1800
Q: What is the latest date covered by the project?
1933
Q: What systems of units are included?
Municipalities
Q: What is the project's final product?
CD-ROM with maps and data. Printed research report and documentation for the CD-ROM. Website with GIS. Only ONE time slice for the boundaries!
Q: What other publications has your project produced?
In preparation. See Website.
Q. What base map is/was used to record the information? When was it created, and by whom? Is it published or in an archive?
Information on administrative changes from publications of the statistical office. Municipalities (points!) from "Karte des dt. Reiches 1:100.000" (also several other topographic information such as railways). Municipality boundaries (one timeslice!) from commercial distributor.
Q: What scale was this base map on?
Municipality boundaries are based on a modern map 1:200.000.
Q: If the base map was not already in digital form and your project created a digital version, how was this done?
Manual digitising of points for municipalities and other topographic information.
Q. If your project constructed a record of boundary CHANGES, what sources of information were used? How was this information gathered?
None
Q: Did your project make any use of DESCRIPTIONS of boundaries? Who created these? Where are they preserved? What problems did you have converting this information into lines on maps?
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Q: What software was used?
Atlas*GIS for digitising and analysis. Arc View for publishing maps on CD-ROM and website.
Q: What were your reasons for your choice of software? If you started again now, would you use the same software?
Provided by the Dept. of Geography. Knowledge of research assistants.
Q: Describe the data files making up the final system:
Atlas AGF for boundaries and DBF for data, Arc View Shapefile for boundaries and DBF for data.
Q: What map projection is used?
LL, Gauss-Krueger
Q: Assess the overall accuracy of your digital mapping:
Thematic maps. They will not work with topographic or other accurate maps.
Q: From your existing experience, what methodological recommendations do you have for a larger collaborative project?
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Q: If the end-product is neither a traditional publication or a GIS, please describe it?
Web-GIS (in preparation).
Q: More generally, whatever the resource your project has actually created, and in the light of your experience with the project, what form of output SHOULD a new project have?
Web-GIS.
Q. What place-names are built-in to your mapping? Is each point/area (node/polygon) labelled with a single name, or is there some system for linking to different versions of names?
We use a list of administrative changes including the changing of names.
Q: Does the history/linguistic geography of your area raise special problems with naming places?
No. May occur (French sources for the time of French occupation).
Q: What sources have you used to research place- and area-names for use in your system?
Printed sources of the statistical office and topographic maps.
Q: Are there any quite separate projects concerned with the history of place names or of administrative hierarchies in your area? If so, please give details? Are they using computers? Are they aiming to make their results available on-line?
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Q. Was the GIS/digital resource constructed for use by its creators ONLY, or was it intended for wider use?
Part of our fundig was given to make the information available to the public, for use in schools, by local researchers etc.
Q: Are you willing to make it available for use by others?
Yes.
Q: Are you willing to make it available for free, or for distribution costs only? If not, what plans have you for commercial distribution?
Free of charge. CD-ROM version for the production and distribution costs (< 100DEM).
Q: Is the resource available NOW? If so, how and from where?
No.
Q: Are there any limitations on access?
No.
Q: What file format or file formats is the resource available in?
AGF, Arc View, Arc Info, MapInfo, Excel, Corel Draw, etc.
Q: If the resource is available from the researcher/project that created it, what plans are there for distribution after the project ends/the researcher retires?
None. May change with additional funding.
Q: What plans are there for updating the data files for use with more recent versions of software?
None. May change with additional funding.
Q: What plans are there for updating the data files to include the results of more recent historical research?
None. May change with additional funding.
Q: Do you own all intellectual property rights in the resource created by your project? If not, what other rights exist, and who do they belong to? What limitations have they imposed?
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Q: How have Intellectual Property Rights issues limited your project?
No.
© Frank Swiazny (Mannheim, May 2000)