Emblematica Online

• Fachliche Zuordnung: Kunstgeschichte
• Förderung: Förderung von 2009 bis 2012
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 125480150

This proposal requests funding to present emblem books in an innovative digital environmentand to develop a portal for a key genre of Renaissance texts and images. Emblematica Online willfulfill its goals through its three constituent activities; 1) Emblem Digitization: the completedigitization of two emblem collections of world-wide prominence; 2) The German EmblemDatabases: the creation of extensive metadata with broad functionality for the German emblems ofboth institutions; and 3) The OpenEmblem Portal: the development ofthe portal as an open accessresearch site incorporating book-level metadata from emblem digitization projects worldwide andemblem-level metadata from Illinois and the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB). The OpenEmblemPortal offers the ability to search across significant levels of granularity, creating functional accessto the entire collections of emblem books at Illinois and HAB, to book-level metadata for a numberof projects worldwide, and to a large corpus of emblem-level metadata for German emblems fromthe collections of Illinois and the HAB.

• DFG-Verfahren: Digitalisierung und Erschließung (Wiss. Literaturversorgung und Informationssysteme)
• Internationaler Bezug: USA
• Antragstellende Institution: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
• Partnerorganisation: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Kooperationspartnerin: Professorin Dr. Mara R. Wade