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
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Dual Emblem View 1
Dual Emblem View 2
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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
Emblem Alciato FALa001
FALa XHTML (fragment)
FALa001 XML TEI (fragment)
XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations)
FALa - notes converted to XHTML
Freetext for database (tab- delimited)
Text for names database table: key >> standard >> variations
Text for namelink table emblemID >> name key
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