Who makes Bestor.be?

The scientific collaborator writes and edits most of the entries and stories on Bestor.be and manages the announcements platform, social media, and newsletter. Previously, this role was held by Alix Badot, Wendy Van de Camp, Walter Leclercq, Lyvia Diser, Eva Schalbroeck, Virgile Royen, and Hannes Van Engeland. Currently, Maarten Langhendries coordinates Bestor.

A network of volunteers, students, and academics also contributes information and texts. Many texts were reviewed and edited by professor and historian of science Geert Vanpaemel, now honorary member of the National Committee. Some French translations are made in collaboration with the translation workshops of the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation at UMONS.

The Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities at UGhent is the technical partner that migrated Bestor from a wiki to a Drupal platform. Data were extracted, modeled, and imported into a Drupal database hosted on the UGent server and maintained by GhentCDH. 

The design of the new site was done by Sitetrip (Ghent) in collaboration with designer Manon Gabriels of Wildbloei. The design is sober, professional yet light, inspiring confidence and readability. The color blocks and lines refer to index cards previously used to catalog library collections.