1. French Emblem books from the 16 th 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

2. Book Introduction Page

3. Contents Page

4. Transcribed View

5. Facsimile View

6. Dual Emblem View 1

7. Dual Emblem View 2

8. Advanced Search

9. Results

10. 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

11. Emblem Alciato FALa001

12. FALa XHTML (fragment)

13. FALa001 XML TEI (fragment)

14. XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations)

15. FALa - notes converted to XHTML

16. Freetext for database (tab- delimited)

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

18. Text for namelink table emblemID >> name key

19. Visit the website for yourself: http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/french/ Has led onto other projects: Italian Emblems http://italianemblems.arts.gla.ac.uk Alciato Project (In development) Conclusion