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

[Richard Hill]

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Richard Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Digicult Forum [mailto:digicult-forum at digicult.info]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:13 AM
> To: IFLA_L
> Subject: OFFICIAL RELEASE OF A DIGICULT SPECIAL PUBLICATION: DIGITIZATION
> OF EMBLEM BOOKS
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> Download DigiCULT Special Publication
> LowRes 5,4 MB
> http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/do
> wnloads/dc_emblemsbook_lowres.pdf|
> 
> 
> HighRes 20 MB
> http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/do
> wnloads/dc_emblemsbook_highres.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> DigiCULT Publications offer a valuable resource of mission-critical
> information in the selection and use of digital technologies for
> Europe’s heritage organisations:
> - Thematic Issues: results of expert fora
> http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php
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> http://www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php
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