The History of Geosciences as the Resource
for the Digital Space of Scientific Knowledge
of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The article describes the online Information System “History of Geology and Mining”, its creation, use and development. Its Web content, structure and search capabilities provide direct access to information on contributions of numerous Russian and foreign geoscientist. The Information System contains personal bibliographies and lists of papers about geoscientists, as well as photos and documents about them. It provides easy search of scientific information, study of numerous original documents and meets all demands of users. The Information System is an important and useful tool for all professionals, historians of geosciences and students. The System may be considered as a working model of processing and digitising large collections of scientific information. The experience in the development and operation of the Information System can be scaled and integrated in other projects for the designed Common Digital Workplace of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Such integration should improve the quality of research works, increase citation, improve search and peer reviews of scientific works.