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Litlink: preview to version 3.0

As the quantity of software for managing bibliographical references and information increased during the past years the range of products makes it necessary to define criteria for choosing one or the other. These criteria are for example the variety of import and export file formats, citation styles, options to manage many different information in a complex software structure, usability, database connectivity, good net binding, and last but not least independence from the Internet.
Individual needs play a substantial role in the choice of a software. Therefore it is important to figure them out clearly and to test different programs. The free software “Litlink” has been developed especially for the requirements of historians. It combines facilities for managing bibliographical references relating them to articles, reviews, photographs etc with those ones that are necessary to administerate archival materials and references. Litlink is a multi-dimensional slip box that offers almost unlimited linkage possibilities.

tagging, databases, early imprints, manuscripts, bibliography, libraries, reference, archives, OPAC, sources, science, universities

A major collection of about 25,000 slides owned by the Insitute for the History of Arts at the University of Halle is being digitized and published in a picture database.
The photographs were taken for teaching purpose between the years 1895 and 1952. They show architecture and art objects from all over the world, that today in many cases do not exist any more.
Access points for the database are names of the artists, type/category of art and place names or names of landscapes. Unfortunately there are neither informations
how to use images in teaching and publication.

history of art, Germany, photography, universities