Bern 19th century local history
On the original website of the local history on DigiBern, the 35 publications that are available digitized from the canton of Bern are only linked to the digitized version on e-rara. For more information, including the historical background, see: Berner Ortsgeschichten aus dem 19. Jahrhundert (in German).
After the revision of the DigiBern website (presumably by spring 2023), the map (pilot project) will be published on DigiBern.
In the pilot project, the link to the digital copy (full text) was supplemented by a link to the entry in the library catalog, which provides access to the original publication. In addition, the entries on the localities and districts were linked to the web services Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, ortsnamen.ch, Wikipedia, Wikicommons and Wikidata, creating a direct informational added value through the additionally accessible information and the images of the localities. With the links to Linked Open Data services (e.g. Wikidata), a simplified further utilization and greater visibility should also be achieved.
Through georeferencing (allocation of spatial information), i.e. the display of publications on an interactive map, connections become more apparent and searching, or browsing, more intuitive. This could prove helpful in the field of genealogical research, among others. For the pilot project, the free web service Google myMaps was chosen as the map software.