The Grand Register of Magnificent Istanbul
About the Istanbul Encyclopedia Web Project
A joint project initiated by Salt and Kadir Has University in 2018, istanbulansiklopedisi.org offers access to the printed volumes of Reşad Ekrem Koçu’s Istanbul Encyclopedia and thousands of related documents. It brings together over 40,000 digitized documents, incorporating published encyclopedia articles and a body of archival material that forms the basis for subsequent volumes. Enabling an in-depth analysis of the archive, the online platform provides a basis to trace and explore the visual and textual connections between various sources.
Blending common facts with unusual accounts, the Istanbul Encyclopedia —and the relevance of the knowledge it entails— is worthy of further scrutiny.
Number of images of the archive
33.903
Number of files
731
Printed volumes
11
Number of images of printed volumes
6.272
STRUCTURE OF THE ARCHIVE
Project Executive (Salt)
Fatma Çolakoğlu
Project Team (Salt)
Gamze Cebeci, Masum Yıldız, Mehtap Kuru, Sinem Ayşe Gülmez Saydam
Project Team (Kadir Has University)
Aybike Batuk, Didem G. Önal, Ezgi Tuncer, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, Gürbey Hiz, Mehmet Manyas, Serap Özyurt, Zehra Betül Atasoy
Project Coordinator and Consultants
Cansu Yapıcı; Bülent Tanju, Emre Ayvaz, Lorans Tanatar Baruh
Research and Digitization
Ahmet Metin Öztürk, Ayşe Buluş, Ayşe Tuğba Silahtar, Büşra İyibaş, Derya Dertli, Dilay Dik, Elif Başgöl, Elif Tuna, Esra Nalbant, Gelengül Erkara, Murat Tülek, Mustafa Hazneci, Özge Ertem, Sinan Çetin, Yağmur Torun, Yonca Güneş Yücel
Software and Application
Ari Algosyan
Editing
Ezgi Yurteri
Design
Kraftend
Acknowledgments
Ada Tuncer, Ahmet Ersoy, Ali Cindoruk, Aslıhan Demirtaş, Aslıhan Şenel, Asya Ece Uzmay, Atıl Aggündüz, Berkay Kasnaklı, Beyzanur Demir, Bülent Yücesoy, Cemal Kafadar, Cemre Yeşil Gönenli, Channel Studio, CLEVER°FRANKE, Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu, Eda Çağıl Çağlarırmak, Edhem Eldem, Enis Batur, Erdem Yücel, Esra Kahveci, Genç Açı Proje Ofisi (GAPO), Gene Kogan, Hasan Deniz, Irvin Cemil Schick, Lalin Akalın, Mehmet Kentel, Nezih Yirmibeş, Nurtaç Buluç, Oğul Öztunç, Orhan Pamuk, Osman Bozkurt, Özlem Hemiş, Sait Ali Köknar, Selim S. Kuru, Sermet Tolan, Shirine Hamadeh, Sinem Serap Duran, Suraiya Faroqhi, Süleyman Şenel, Reşat Kasaba, Tan Morgül, Uğur Aktaş, Uğur Tanyeli, Ümran Yalın, Vasıf Kortun
Preserved by the efforts of Emine Gönel and Elif Birdoğan, the Istanbul Encyclopedia was transferred to Kadir Has University in 2018.
The archive and research project, conducted by Salt together with Kadir Has University on the Istanbul Encyclopedia, was initiated in 2018 by Meriç Öner (Former Director of Salt Research and Programs) and Arzu Erdem (Former Dean of Kadir Has University Faculty of Art and Design) with Cansu Yapıcı as project coordinator; Bülent Tanju and Emre Ayvaz as consultants.
Salt’s exhibition No Further Records (May 24–October 29, 2023), along with the e-publication of the same title, is programmed by Bülent Tanju, Cansu Yapıcı, Gülce Özkara, and Masum Yıldız, together with Ezgi Yurteri (Editor) and Emirhan Altuner (Design), as part of the Reşad Ekrem Koçu and Istanbul Encyclopedia Archive project.
