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Enabling Communities by Constructed Media: The Case of a Web-Based Study Environment for a Talmudic Tractate

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The Babylonian Talmud is still an authoritative source for many orthodox Jews, an dialogic encyclopaedia of knowledge and one of the most impressive pieces of world literature. However, the distribution of this knowledge is limited by the burdensome task of studying this complex work. The paper presents a comprehensive study environment for a Talmudic tractate which transcribes an original printed edition into a structured electronic version, thus enabling much easier ways of studying the text with hypertextual annotations and dynamic knowledge level-dependent features. This radically changes the addressable knowledge communities.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, D-52056, Aachen, Germany

    Ralf Klamma & Matthias Jarke

  2. Collaborative Research Center FK 427 ‘Media and Cultural Communication’, Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str. 11, D-50969, Cologne, Germany

    Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke, Elisabeth Hollender & Dagmar Börner-Klein2

  3. Fraunhofer Institut FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Matthias Jarke

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Klamma, R., Jarke, M., Hollender, E., Börner-Klein2, D. (2002). Enabling Communities by Constructed Media: The Case of a Web-Based Study Environment for a Talmudic Tractate. In: Fong, J., Cheung, C.T., Leong, H.V., Li, Q. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning. ICWL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2436. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45689-9_23

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