[Asis-l] OFFICIAL RELEASE OF A DIGICULT SPECIAL PUBLICATION: DIGITIZATION OF EMBLEM BOOKS

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OFFICIAL RELEASE OF A DIGICULT SPECIAL PUBLICATION

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
RENAISSANCE EMBLEM LITERATURE AS A CASE STUDY FOR THE DIGITIZATION OF 
RARE TEXT AND IMAGES

DigiCULT Forum published alongside the series of DigiCULT Publications a
special edition on the digitization of emblem books.

The twelve articles which stem from the working conference on emblem
digitization held in September 2003 at the Herzog August Bibliothek,
Wolfenbüttel, Germany, allow to exemplify how scholars in a highly
specialised area of research together with digital librarians have taken
advantage of information technologies, standards, and emerging best
practices for the digitization of emblems and emblem books, and the
scholarly work related to them.

The complexity of practises is illustrated by the key issues and methods
covered in this DigiCULT Special Publication: establishing metadata,
using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard, indexing emblems
(e.g. with Iconclass), collection-level descriptions, metadata exchange
procedures, using the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting
Protocol (OAI-MHP) for emblem data, federated searching based on
ontologies, and establishment of an emblems portal.



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