Glasgow Emblem Digitisation Project
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Grant Holder:
Professor Alison Adams
The site has been developed, with generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Resource Enhancement Scheme, by a team led by Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Jonathan Spangler, and Project Director Alison Adams. All but two of the emblem books digitised are from the Stirling Maxwell Collection in Glasgow University Library. The Bodleian Library and the Bibliothèque Mazarine have generously made material available to enable us to present the complete corpus. The Project is undertaken within the OpenEmblem initiative.
The French website has been complemented by two add-on projects: Alciato at Glasgow (funded by the British Academy); and, The Study and Digitisation of Italian Emblems (funded by the EU (Marie Curie)). The Italian site, developed by Donato Mansueto (Bari) is still under development.
Generation of HTML files from XML data for web-delivery; production of compressed JPEG files from uncompressed TIFF files for web dissemination; Iconclass data was encoded on-line with the Iconclass server in the Netherlands
| Project start date: 2004-09 | Project end date: 2006-09 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d graphic design | Practice-led research |
| 2d modelling - raster | Data structuring and enhancement |
| 2d scanning | Practice-led research |
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Collocating | Data analysis |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Content-based image retrieval | Data analysis |
| Data mining | Data analysis |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Iterative design | Strategy and project management |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Parsing | Data analysis |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| Risk management | Strategy and project management |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) | Metadata standards |
| text | Content types |
| history | Discipline |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
XMetal; Oxygen; Apache; MySQL; PHP; Adobe PhotoShop; MS Word, Access and Excel
Source material used:
16th and 17th century books, largely from Glasgow University Library (Stirling Maxwell Collection), with some material from the Bodleian Library, and the Bibliothèque Mazarine.
Digital resource created:
A database of 27 browsable emblem books dating from 1536 to 1615, in both transcribed and facsimile versions, with extensive search functionality, in both old and modern spelling. The images (central to this genre) and the text are also searchable using the controlled vocabulary of the Iconclass system.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Text in XML; images in uncompressed 24 bit TIFF format with JPEG images derived from these in various sizes for web use.
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, simple (DC), Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Alison Adams, Stephen Rawles, David Weston |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Alison Adams |
| Title | Glasgow Emblem Digitisation Project |
| Record created | 2010-07-02 |
| Record updated | 2010-07-02 15:53 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3552 |
| Citation of record | Alison Adams: Glasgow Emblem Digitisation Project. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3552> created: 2010-07-02, last updated 2010-07-02 15:53 |