28.09.2026 | Workshop "Publishing online with the Open Encyclopedia System"
Hands-on workshop as part of the "Digital History 2026" conference in Salzburg
The “Digital History 2026” conference will take place in Salzburg at the end of September, at which we will be running a workshop on OES. The three-hour workshop provides an introduction to the web-based open-source platform Open Encyclopedia System (OES) for the creation, maintenance and publication of academic online encyclopaedias, lexicons, glossaries and curated knowledge portals in open access within the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences. The workshop will present applications from the field of history that successfully create content using OES and publish it in open access, as well as providing an introduction to using the software.
Planned programme:
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Welcome, introduction and getting to know one another |
10 mins |
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Online publishing with OES: examples, potential for the field of history, discussion |
30 mins |
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Introduction to OES (features, modules, data model), comparison with other solutions, discussion of the pros and cons |
30 mins |
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Break |
15 mins |
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Creating content in OES: creating your own articles (lemmas) including metadata, references and keywords + hands-on exercises |
30 mins |
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Linking to authority files and enriching your own datasets + hands-on exercises |
30 mins |
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Publishing with OES: versioning, licensing, citation suggestions, export formats + hands-on exercises |
20 mins |
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Feedback session: suggestions and ideas from participants |
15 mins |
A joint event organised by the Digital Research Infrastructures (DFI) division of FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin, and
NFDI4Memory Data Literacy.
Facilitators
- Brigitte Grote, Freie Universität Berlin
- Marina Lemaire, Universität Trier
- Anne Voigt, Freie Universität Berlin
- Maren Welterlich-Strobl, Freie Universität Berlin
Key details:
- Date: 28.09.2026 - 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Venue: Salzburg
- Target audience: The workshop is aimed at people who would like to learn about the possibilities offered by this online publishing system, but who are also generally interested in discussing multimodal and interactive open-source publications and processes. No prior knowledge is required, though experience with WordPress will make it easier to get started. The number of participants is limited to 20.
- Participation: Registration for the workshop takes place via the Digital History 2026 conference website.