5. The ‘Natural Rights History’ Portal and Its Design

Abstract

This contribution describes the project of the portal ‘Natural Rights History’, containing 18th- and19th-century sources on human rights. The importance of digitization of historical sources and the impact it has on historical research, the criteria for the design of the portal as for both content and metadata architecture, and user interface, are discussed. Keywords: Human Rights, History of Human Rights, Digital Humanities, Web Publishing, Digitisation of Historical Sources