B.Z. Doktorov’s history and social project IT-maintenance

Abstract

The article presents structure and internal organization of electronic editions prepared as part of B. Z. Doktorov’s Russian sociology history project. It shows features and advantages of working with two electronic products: The book titled “Resume interview with fellow sociologists” and CD version of nine-volume edition titled “Sociology in modern Russia: Historic-biographic search”. Both products can be found online.The online book by Doktorov includes more than 140 interviews with Russia’s sociologists who represent all current generations. The article notes that to ensure convenience while working with this vast material there are several types of tables of content. They allow the user to search the information by various search parameters: by alphabet, by generations of sociologists, by place of work, and by directions of research. It says where one can find basic information on every respondent and how and what for one can use an interactive gallery of respondents.It provides description of the CD version which includes interviews published in the online book, and also many works by Doktorov concerned with history of modern Russia’s sociology. First of all, these works include the previously published books and articles on methodology of historic-biographic researches. They also include books, brochures, articles and feature-stories concerned with a number of famous Russia’s sociologists. It describes the navigation through the edition, includes navigator and authors index; it also highlights title formation features in PDF files.