correspSearch

With correspSearch you can search through indexes of different letter collections (digital or print) by sender, addressee, location written, location sent, and date. To this purpose a website and a technical interface are provided. The web service collects and evaluates TEI-XML data in the ‘Correspondence Metadata Interchange’ format.

The web service correspSearch is operated and developed according to the following principles:

• Reference System: The web service aims to help users with their research by offering a central location to search for letters, and by guiding them to the original publication.

• Academic Data: The web service is based on the data from letter-indexes of editions or repositories that are edited according to academic criteria.

• Conceptionaly Open: There is no focus on a particular time period or place. This allows for new kinds of research questions to be explored.

• Open Access: Data is only collected that is under a free license, and the data from the web service continues to be under a free license and is thus available for further use.

• Open Interfaces: correspSearch offers technical interfaces that are open and well documented. Other projects can easily query and use the data.

• Open Standards: Data exchange and data processing are based on open standard formats and technologies.