| HG-50004-09 | Digital Humanities: NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Emblematica Online: Emblem Digitization, The German Emblem Database, and The OpenEmblem Portal | 10/1/2009 - 12/31/2012 | $175,033.00 | Mara | R. | Wade | | | | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 2009 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program | Digital Humanities | 175033 | 0 | 175032.04 | 0 | 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. |