Monday, November 29, 2010

iDAI.bookbrowser

In August I posted about Arachne, the central object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne.

 I take this opportunity to draw your attention to another of its features where ca. three hundred volumes are online:

iDAI.bookbrowser
The iDAI.bookbrowser integrates documents in the object structure of Arachne, providing direct links between “real world” objects and their textual descriptions. It also frees books from their idolisation and contextualizes them in to their cultural environments.
The important component of the iDAI.bookbrowser are digitized prints from the 16th to 18th centuries, currently numbering about 300. Every heading is successively verified in the ZENON DAI and linked to its record in the iDAI.bookbrowser. These books belong to the holdings of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome (DAI), the Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture (FA) at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne, the Cologne University Library and the Winckelmann-Institute at Stendal.
Further information (in German):
Als weitere Bestandskategorie werden thematisch zusammenhängende Konvolute aufbereitet und innerhalb von Arachne kontextualisiert: etwa die landeskundlichen Fotoalben des Barons Max von Oppenheim oder aber die handschriftlichen Inventarverzeichnisse der Fotothek des Deutschen Archäologischen Institutes in Rom.
Der iDAI.Bookbrowser unterstützt über seine OAI-Schnittstelle den METS-Metadatenstandard. Seine Programmierung erfolgte am Forschungsarchiv für Antike Plastik am Archäologischen Institut der Universität zu Köln. Die Finanzierung übernahmen das Deutsche Archäologische Institut in Berlin sowie die Philosophische Fakultät der Universität zu Köln.

 I urge you also to explore the other features of the iDAI Arachne:


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