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第一次世界大戦のオンライン百科事典が10月8日に一般公開されたそうです。このサイトの告知から公開前と公開後の表現の違いを学べます。

(公開当日の告知)
encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net is now availabe worldwide and free
International online-encyclopedia of the First World War has been successfully launched
The 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War has been successfully launched today in Brussel. Find some impressions here>>
We are very happy about all the encouraging positive feedback on social media and look forward to expanding and improving this major collection of WW1 research. Feedback and input is very welcome!
>>ENTER ENCYCLOPEDIA>>
News from 10/08/2014

(公開前の告知)
encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net to be launched today
International online-encyclopedia of the First World War to be launched on 8 October 3 p.m. CET
As of 3 p.m. CET the results of three years of project work of about 1000 experts from more than 50 countries may be accessed worldwide online.
>>ENTER ENCYCLOPEDIA>>
News from 10/07/2014

availableのスペルミスは大目に見てもらうとして、公開直後はnow availableで、公開直前はto be launchedとなっていますね。To不定詞を未来志向と考えることに汎用性はありそうです。

encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net is now available worldwide and free

encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net to be launched today

この百科事典プロジェクトはドイツ主導で作成されているようですが、英語サイトです。やはり、世界中の人に向けて公開するものは英語で作成することは重要ではないでしょうか。世界に発信するつもりなら「スーパーグローバル」というネーミングセンスなどを批判している場合じゃないようです。

プロジェクト概要を確認します。

Project Overview
Since 2011 the international joint research project"1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War” has been developing an English-language virtual reference work on the First World War. Released in October 2014, the online encyclopedia is the result of an international collaborative project to make available a multi-perspective, public-access knowledge base on the First World War.

Research Approach
For the past century the image of the First World War has primarily focused on Central and Western Europe. However, WWI was not only a pan-European war, but was rather the first global war: it was a world-wide economic war in which numerous non-European states participated and for which the European powers mobilized the resources of their colonial empires. These perspectives are an important factor in the encyclopedia. Thus, “1914-1918-online” not only reflects the increasingly international research on the First World War, but also significantly advances it by identifying gaps and desiderata.

Open Access
"1914-1918-online" represents a major undertaking in digital history publication under the Open Access paradigm by promoting free and unlimited dissemination of the content to individual users, search engines, and reference services. This availability will be complemented by novel navigation schemes that allow the user non-linear access throughout the text via thematic contexts, regional contexts and conceptual encyclopedia entries (e.g. 'Propaganda'). The platform will be designed to enable users to follow threads according to their specific interests, integrating a broad range of texts from various contexts. Visualizations of thematic connections will encourage the navigation of the encyclopedia in ways that expand on the standards of current digital history publications.
Last Update 10/10/2014

ロングマンの定義でも第一次世界大戦といえば西部戦線、塹壕というイメージが強いですが、東部戦線や南部戦線の方が損害が大きかったそうです。今回の百科事典では広くグローバルな視点で第一次世界大戦を捉えようとしています。

for British people the strongest image is of the 'Western Front' in Belgium and northern France, where the armies of each side lived in trenches (=long deep holes in the ground), with an area called "no-man's land" between them.

(ロングマン)
World War I also the First World War
(1914-1918) a war in Europe fought between France, the UK and its empire, Russia, and the US on one side ('the Allies'), and Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey on the other side. The war started as a result of the murder in Sarajevo of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, a member of the Austrian royal family. World War I was fought in many different areas, but for British people the strongest image is of the 'Western Front' in Belgium and northern France, where the armies of each side lived in trenches (=long deep holes in the ground), with an area called "no-man's land" between them. Many of the famous battles on the Western Front ended without either side gaining much land, and the names of these battles especially the Somme, Passchendaele, and Ypres, have come to represent the way that millions of young men were killed for no very good reason. For people from Australia and New Zealand, the battle of Gallipoli, where thousands of their soldiers were killed, is remembered with great sadness.

日本のセクションもあり、京都大学の山室信一教授が責任者のようです。例えば以下のような項目が立っています。

Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Japan)
By Frederick R. Dickinson

井上肇の「欧州ノ大禍乱ハ、日本国運ノ発展ニ対スル大正新時代ノ天佑」の天佑は“Divine Aid”としています。

War as “Divine Aid”
As in the principal capitals of Europe, the outbreak of war brought initial delight in Tokyo. Just as British prime minister David Lloyd George (1863-1945) hailed the chance to rediscover “the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven,”[4] Japanese elder statesman Inoue Kaoru (1835-1915) praised the war as the “divine aid of the new Taishō era for the development of the destiny of Japan.”[5] Like his European counterparts, Inoue and his countrymen welcomed the end of uncertainty that had accompanied the rapid industrialization of the late 19th century. In the case of Japan, the Russo-Japanese War had also been a major turning point. Military victory in 1905 had confirmed the success of the grand nation-building enterprise embarked upon by modern Japan’s founders in the latter 19th century. Peace, the Chinese Revolution (1911) and the death of the preeminent symbol of the nation-building effort, the Meiji Emperor (reigning 1868-1912) had, however, raised serious questions about the future trajectory of the empire.

第一次世界大戦の前後も広く捉えていくこともポイントとしているようで、日露戦争もしっかりとエントリーしています。

Russian-Japanese-War
By Siobhan Peeling

The Russian-Japanese War of 1904-05, caused by Russian and Japanese expansionism in the Far East, inflicted humiliating defeats on Russia at land and sea. The war contributed to domestic unrest in both countries, catalysing the revolution of 1905 in Russia. The rise of Japan also sent reverberations across the world.

Open Accessで知を共有する。一つの理想的なかたちではないでしょうか。
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