Emblematica Online: Emblem Digitization, The German Emblem Database, and The OpenEmblem Portal

FAIN: HG-50004-09

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL 61801-3620)
Mara R. Wade (Project Director: October 2008 to March 2013)

The digitization of emblem book collections at University of Illinois (UI) and the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB); the development of a central OpenEmblem Portal; and the creation of an extensive database of interoperable metadata.

This proposal requests funding to present emblem books in a digital environment and to develop a portal for a key genre of Renaissance texts and images. Emblematica Online will fulfill its goals through its three constituent activities: 1) Emblem Digitization: the complete digitization of two premiere emblem collections of world-wide prominence; 2) The German Emblem Databases: the creation of extensive metadata with broad functionality for the German emblems of both institutions in mirror websites; and 3) The OpenEmblem Portal: the development of the portal as an open access research site incorporating book-level metadata from emblem digitization projects worldwide and emblem-level metadata from Illinois and the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB). The OpenEmblem Portal hosted at Illinois will have a mirror portal at the HAB.

Associated Products

Emblem Digitization: Conducting Digital Research with Renaissance Texts and Images. (Book)
Title: Emblem Digitization: Conducting Digital Research with Renaissance Texts and Images.
Editor: Mara R wade
Abstract: The several essays in this volume are written by international scholars involved in emblem digitization projects, including "Emblematica On-Line" supported by a bilateral digital humanities grant from the NEH and DFG.. They are: “Corpus Electronicum Cano”: Some Implications of Very Large Electronic Emblem Corpora. David Graham, Concordia University, Montreal. Digitizing the Emblem. Alan R. Young, Acadia University. We've Come a Long Way: French Emblems on the Internet. Elizabeth Black, Old Dominion University, Virginia. Subject Access Through an Emblem Portal: A Common Standard for Students and Scholars. Thomas Kilton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Practical Issues of the Wolfenbüttel Emblem Schema. Thomas Stäcker, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. The Emblem inside the Emblem Book – The Structuring and Indexing of Texts and Images. Andrea Opitz, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. Library Workflows to Provide Emblem-Level Descriptions and Access. Timothy W. Cole and Myung-Ja Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Showcasing Digital Resources: Emblems and Renaissance Festival Books. Mara R. Wade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http:// extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-20/si-20toc.htm
Access Model: open access
Publisher: Early Modern Literary Studies, Special Issue 20:
Type: Edited Volume
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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