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Digitizing the European emblem : issues and prospects
- Title
- Digitizing the European emblem : issues and prospects / Peter M. Daly.
- Author
- Daly, Peter M. (Peter Maurice)
- Publication
- New York : AMS Press, [2002], ©2002.
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- Description
- xvii, 284 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- AMS studies in the emblem ; 15
- Uniform Title
- AMS studies in the emblem ; no. 15.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-272) and index.
- Contents
- The Emblem: a Symbolic Mode of Communication -- Renaissance of Scholarly Interest -- What is an Emblem, and How Does It Communicate? -- Digitizing the Emblem -- Some Dangers of the Web -- The Purpose of Digitization -- Digitization as Preservation -- Digitization as Enrichment -- The Technicalities of Digitizing -- Issues in Digitizing Emblems -- Digitizing and Reading -- The Choice of Emblematist -- The Choice of Edition -- Enrichment: The Issue of Adding Information -- The Issue of Picture Description -- The Issue of the Treatment of Texts -- From ASCII to Unicode -- Stemming -- Lemmatization -- The Issue of Judging the Effectiveness of Enriched Digitization -- The Technicalities of Encoding Emblems -- HTML (HyperText Markup Language) -- The Advantages of HTML -- The Disadvantages of HTML -- The Use of HTML in the World of Emblems -- XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) -- The Advantages of XHTML -- The Disadvantages of XHTML --
- XML (Extensible Markup Language) -- The Advantages of XML -- The Disadvantages of XML -- Adobe's Acrobat -- The Advantages of Acrobat -- The Disadvantages of Acrobat -- The Use of Adobe Acrobat in the World of Emblems -- Copyright -- Freedom of Access -- Websites with Scanned Emblems in Various Languages -- Some CD-ROM Projects with Books of Emblems and Imprese -- Who Made the Digital Edition -- An Alphabetical List of Books with Emblems and Imprese Online and as CD-ROM Editions -- Websites and CD-ROM Disks with Emblem-Related Material.
- ISBN
- 0404637159 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002026238
- OCLC
- ocm50422903
- SCSB-14499850
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries