The Beethoven courses aim is to provide a comprehensive learning platform which is motivating, intuitive, fun and simple to operate so the user may immerse quickly into the content by using full multimedia Internet possibilities like text, picture, audio and video. It is planned to make it the most complete Internet offer about Beethoven world-wide. Another advantage of the Beethoven course is its ability to connect teachers, scientists, and other learners who study Beethoven via the Internet so they can communicate and exchange information fast and easily. By this, they form online working groups and their discussion results will be saved to the database too. Challenges Almost everything in The Digital Beethoven House will base on the digital archive.
Several challenges have to be mastered to establish it.
The valuable primary material is either available as original or as copy or facsimile and often yellowed, soiled, and even fragile. Having digital copies of the Beethoven manuscripts has several disadvantages too. It makes it simple on one side to publish the documents but also makes it easy on the other side to manipulate the document, duplicate them or distribute them without the owner's approval. Content integrity, authentication, intellectual property, and copyright protection are the major issues here. It is technically not possible to prevent the unallowed manipulation, but it is possible to record the information about the owner, the application purposes and the copyright in the document itself.