Website Evaluation: Erlanger Liste

Website evaluated: ERLANGER LISTE, http://www.erlangerliste.de/ressourc/liste.html

This resource would be of value to anyone interested in German studies. It offers eight categories, or ways to look at, the study of German culture: institutes and institutions, resources, eras, digital releases, find, literature archive, pixel pegasus and important context. It also separates the arts into four categories: paintings, photography, lexicons and search engines. It is really a treasure trove of information, from history to art, scholarly work to literature, writing resources to research archives, this site has it all.

1. 1. Within the scope of media, a link that is valuable is “important contexts”: http://www.erlangerliste.de/ressourc/kontext.html#Medien

This link offers access to newspaper archives, film and television catalogs, news for journalists, histories of the internet, lists of German media outlets, etc. It is an archive of everything going on media-wise.

2. 2. “Pixel Pegasus”: http://www.erlangerliste.de/ressourc/pixel.html

This link provides addresses and information from the German literature and media businesses, digital articles, essays and literature, and even a site to help young editors with proofreading.

3. "Researching": http://www.erlangerliste.de/ressourc/lit.html

This link offers search engines for different categories for researching, like the Research German Literature Archive, the catalog for the detection of 75 million books and journals in library and book trade catalogs and an electronic catalog of the German Literature Archive.

Overall the site is a comprehensive resource of cultural documents (both secondary and primary) and art, including modern media resources.

the site was last modified: 6/5/2006 © 1996-2006 Ernst Rohmer and Gunther Witting