•French Emblem books from the 16th Century•What is an emblem?•27 books in French and Latin•Most held at GUL Special Collections•Website offers facsimile and transcribed views•Users can ‘read the books’ and search the content•A tool for historians, linguists, iconographers•Developed at HATII and CES

Introduction

Book IntroductionPage

ContentsPage

TranscribedView

FacsimileView

DualEmblemView 1

DualEmblemView 2

AdvancedSearch

SearchResults

•Controlled vocabulary used for indexing images•Ensures images are catalogued consistently•Used by other emblems projects•Server based in Holland and our server interacts with this•Enables our website to be part of a bigger system

Iconclass

EmblemAlciatoFALa001

FALaXHTML(fragment)

FALa001XMLTEI(fragment)

XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations)

FALa - notes converted to XHTML

Freetextfordatabase(tab-delimited)

Text for names database table: key >> standard >> variations

Text for namelink tableemblemID >> name key

•Visit the website for yourself:

http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/french/

•Has led onto other projects:•Italian Emblemshttp://italianemblems.arts.gla.ac.uk•Alciato Project (In development)

Conclusion