Dr. Detlev Doherr is professor for Informatics and GIS at University of Applied Sciences, Offenburg, Germany. He has also been teaching in the careers of Energy System Technology, Chemical Engineering, Communication and Media Engineering. He is Dean of the Bachelor Degree Programs, Head of the Institute of Continuing Academic Education (Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung) and Director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center of Information Technologies, Offenburg. Dr. Doherr published several books, books chapters and many articles. He is a Certified "European Geologist", European Federation of Geologists, Brussels; and among his current research interest is Information technology, virtual research environments for digital libraries, E-Learning.

Alexander von Humboldt, a German scientist and explorer of the 19th century viewed the natural world holistically and described the harmony of nature among the diversity of the physical world as a conjoining between all physical disciplines. He noted in his diary: 'Everything is interconnectedness'. 
 
Following Humboldt's idea of nature an Internet edition must preserve the author’s original intention, retain an awareness of all relevant works, and should supply dynamic links to sources, maps, images, graphs and relevant texts. New forms of interaction and synthesis between humanistic texts and scientific observation need to be created.