Emblematica Online

• Subject Area: Art History
• Term: from 2009 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 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 Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• International Connection: USA
• Applicant Institution: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
• Partner Organisation: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Cooperation Partner: Professorin Dr. Mara R. Wade