Summary
The purpose of this paper is to present the idea and the process of creating the most complete electronic bibliographic database of the records related to Nikola Tesla, symbolically named Teslapedia. The database would include Tesla’s bibliography as well as the bibliography of related works by other authors. The concept of the development of Teslapedia is visible in two main ideas. The first of them implies alignment of all the existing bibliographical units, located in the Museum as its property, on a specific web site, and the other, equally important, involves the possibility of further development and upgrading the database structure joining new bibliographic data. This database makes the central part of Teslapedia, the homonymous project of the Nikola Tesla Museum. Data contained in the database were obtained from five different sources. In addition to Tesla’s personal press clipping and his librariy, which are located within the Museum, the paper also presents other sources used in forming the bibliography (Chroniclin America, Tesla Collection, unpublished bibliography of Nikola Tesla by Milovan Matić). According to the idea of the project, Teslapedia should be the reference point to all specialized databases and collections that contain useful, relevant and significant information about the life and work of Nikola Tesla.

Keywords:
Nikola Tesla, bibliography, Teslapedia, Nikola Tesla Museum, database, digitization, press clipping, Chronicling America, Tesla Collection

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