TY - GEN
T1 - Descriptive metadata, iconclass, and digitized emblem literature
AU - Cole, Timothy W.
AU - Han, Myung Ja K.
AU - Vannoy, Jordan A.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Early Modern emblems combined text and image. Though there were many variants, the archetypical emblem literary form (mid-sixteenth through mid-eighteenth centuries) consisted of an image (the pictura), a text inscription (the inscriptio), and a text epigram (the subscriptio), the last usually in verse. Digitized emblem literature poses interesting challenges as regards content and metadata granularity, the use of interdisciplinary controlled vocabularies, and the need to present digitized primary sources in a complex network of associated sources, derivatives, and contemporaneous context. In this paper, we describe a digital library Web application designed to better support the ways emblem scholars search for and use digitized emblem books, focusing on metadata design, issues of resource granularity and identification, and the use of Linked Data Web services for Iconclass, a multilingual classification system for cultural heritage art and images. Outcomes to date, achieved by emblem scholars and librarians working in collaboration, provide a case study for multi-faceted, interactive approaches to curating mixed text-image digital resources and the use of Linked Data vocabulary services. Lessons learned highlight the value of librarian-scholar collaboration and help to illustrate why digital libraries need to move beyond merely disseminating digitized book surrogates.
AB - Early Modern emblems combined text and image. Though there were many variants, the archetypical emblem literary form (mid-sixteenth through mid-eighteenth centuries) consisted of an image (the pictura), a text inscription (the inscriptio), and a text epigram (the subscriptio), the last usually in verse. Digitized emblem literature poses interesting challenges as regards content and metadata granularity, the use of interdisciplinary controlled vocabularies, and the need to present digitized primary sources in a complex network of associated sources, derivatives, and contemporaneous context. In this paper, we describe a digital library Web application designed to better support the ways emblem scholars search for and use digitized emblem books, focusing on metadata design, issues of resource granularity and identification, and the use of Linked Data Web services for Iconclass, a multilingual classification system for cultural heritage art and images. Outcomes to date, achieved by emblem scholars and librarians working in collaboration, provide a case study for multi-faceted, interactive approaches to curating mixed text-image digital resources and the use of Linked Data vocabulary services. Lessons learned highlight the value of librarian-scholar collaboration and help to illustrate why digital libraries need to move beyond merely disseminating digitized book surrogates.
KW - digital humanities
KW - emblem books
KW - iconclass
KW - metadata
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U2 - 10.1145/2232817.2232839
DO - 10.1145/2232817.2232839
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863550127
SN - 9781450311540
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
SP - 111
EP - 120
BT - JCDL '12 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
T2 - 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL '12
Y2 - 10 June 2012 through 14 June 2012
ER -