Emblem Project Utrecht

What's New?

2006-03-10:

• We have added a new search engine to our site, allowing you to search in more detail and with more precision, see our Global search page.

2006-01-09:

• We have added the preliminary editions of all emblem books in the Emblem Project Utrecht corpus, en we have added information about the Emblem Project Utrecht conference, including a Call for Papers.

2005-05-24:

• We have added a preliminary edition of Luyken's Jezus en de ziel, as well as a link to an article on the 1714-remake of Jezus en de ziel as published in Nederlandse letterkunde 10 (2005), pp. 161-173.

2004-11-29:

• We've begun linking our emblem pages to the pages at Mnemosyne that give the Iconclass description of that emblem (click here for an example).

2004-10-01:

• We've added an elementary zooming facility to the page facsimile display (look here for an example). The Virtual Lightbox was developed at MITH.

2004-09-01:

• Now officially available: an educational site. (Credits)

2004-08-01:

• The Emblem Project Utrecht was discussed in two recent publications: the proceedings of September 2002's congress of the Society for Emblem Studies (Peter Boot's article on the use of XML at the EPU is available here) and in the proceedings of the September 2003 meeting of emblem digitisation projects at Wolfenbüttel.

2004-02-10:

• The Emblem Project Utrecht took part in a session on humanities computing at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences. We used this Powerpoint presentation to present the project and more especially the EPU Public Index Feature.

2003-11-02:

• There's now a mailing list for those interested in the Emblem Project Utrecht. If you subscribe, you'll receive a news update about the project every three to six months.

2003-10-05:

• An experimental OAI interface to the EPU collections is available at http://emblems.let.uu.nl/emblems/lab/OAI-XMLFile/XMLFile/epu/oai.pl. There is some summary documentation for the interface.
  The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) provides a lightweight protocol (OAI-PMH) for metadata exchange over the Internet. More information at the Open Archives Initiative website.

2003-09-08:

• The EPU Public Index Feature is a facility which allows scholars, external to the Emblem Project Utrecht, to define their own indexes to the site. EPU-PIF is still being worked on, but will be presented in the 'Arbeitsgespräch' Emblem Literature: Digital Modelling of the Interrelationships between Texts and Images, in a talk titled 'Beyond the Digital Edition: Tools for Emblem Research'.
• Another conference where some aspects of the Emblem Project Utrecht have been discussed is Digital Resources in the Humanities 2003 conference in Gloucestershire (31-08-2003 to 03-09-2003). Peter Boot spoke about Sign structures and networks of concepts in TEI-encoded texts. A demonstration page, including demo files, is available.

2003-07-16:

• Thanks to Jeroen Baas, student of the Utrecht University (Information Science), we reworked the HTML output of the Emblem Project Utrecht to meet the standards of the W3 XHTML-1.0-strict recommendations. Currently, we are also working on an educational addition the emblem site (soon to be published here); and we are preparing the project's official start at September 1st, 2003.

2003-03-10:

• For the next three years, the Emblem Project Utrecht will be funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
• We have added Page Images of the songs and sonnets of Hooft to the preliminary edition of Hooft's Emblemata amatoria. Also, we have added an extra section to the Dutch Introduction, also written by prof. dr. K. Porteman.
• We have added Page Images and Thumbnails to Cats's Proteus. With special thanks to the University Library of Utrecht.

2003-02-20:

• We have added a preliminary edition of Hooft's Emblemata amatoria. With special thanks to Paul Dijstelberge and the University Library of Amsterdam.

2003-01-08:

• We have added lists of pictorial motifs to Daniel de la Feuille's Devises et emblemes.

2002-11-18:

• In the edition of Jacob Cats's Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627) we have added the preliminary poems, the important preface in Dutch and in Latin, a number of translations (into Dutch) of the foreign language texts and the greater part of the annotations to the book.
• We now present a separate edition of those texts from Jacob Cats's Proteus (1618) which Cats rewrote for, or left out of, the 1627 edition. The 1627 version is hyperlinked to the 1618 version in the 'sources and parallels'-sections on the emblem pages. This allows for easy comparison between the two versions. Reverse links will be available shortly.
• We have added a sitemap to the site which, we hope, will facilitate navigation.

2002-09-09:

• We have added a window which allows for side-by-side display of any two emblems in our emblem corpus. The window is available from each of the emblem pages, and it will look for instance like this. In the right-hand frame you can select the second emblem, either from the same book, or, using the book selection frame in the top corner, from another book.
  When links to other emblems on the site are available, the 'Compare' link next to the related emblem will show a direct comparison of the two emblems.

2002-08-13:

• We have added an edition of Daniel de la Feuille's Devises et emblemes (Antwerp, 1691). De la Feuille's book is one of the earliest emblem anthologies. It lists 718 picturae, with a brief description in French and mottoes in seven European languages. Many of the picturae derive, directly or indirectly, from Vaenius; many other from Alciato, Junius, Camerarius, Saavedra de Fajardo, etc. We're still researching these influences, and will gradually add the information to the edition. The digitisation of this edition is a joint project of the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services and the Emblem Project Utrecht.
• We're also working on an experimental version of Jacob Cats's Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627). Our version is based on the 1996 edition prepared and annotated by Hans Luijten, and published by the Constantijn Huygens Institute in the series Monumenta Literaria Neerlandica. The digitisation of this printed edition is a joint project of the Constantijn Huygens Instituut and the Emblem Project Utrecht. At present, the emblem pictures and transcribed texts are available, as well as the original introduction (in Dutch) and facsimiles of all the emblem pages.

2002-04-16:

• In a minor improvement to the site's usability we have added an option allowing you to view the emblem picture as a thumbnail rather than as a full picture. For quick browsing over a slow connection, this may speed things up. You can set the option from the preferences page.

2002-04-23:

• We have added a a project description.
• In Amorum emblemata we have added some modernised spellings (accessible through the 'preferences' panel).

2002-02-27:

• For each emblem, the XML source is now available (at the bottom of the page). This should not be confused with that page's source: the page is generated from, among other things, the emblem XML source as shown, but also contains information from other XML files.
• We have tried to be nice to Netscape 4.x users, adding some display features previously available for IE.
• We have added a list of customisations we applied to the TEI DTD's. (For an explanation about TEI and DTD's, look here).

2002-02-01:

• In Amoris divini emblemata, Dutch translations have been added to all of the texts (thanks to Jan Bloemendal).
• We have added an index to technical documentation.

2002-01-18:

• On the search pages, you may choose to view thumbnails of the selected emblems. (try this, in a search for emblems in Amoris divini emblemata).
• We have added an extra preference which will show a pop-up thumbnail on references to emblems on the EPU site. This will work in the tables of contents, the bibliography and the emblem pages themselves.
• From the bibliography we now generate a list of links to web sites described in the bibliography.
• For those of you who have Javascript disabled, we have added alternative content. The emblem pages will now display correctly, a simple alternative menu will replace the Javascript pop-up menus. Without Javascript, however, the search pages still won't work, and you can't set preferences.

2002-01-04:

• To Amorum emblemata we have added images of the text pages, taken from a Latin/Dutch/French edition of the work (we'll add a description of that edition at a later stage).
• We have made available a large part of our technical documentation.
• We stopped using HTML frames and now embed menu information in the HTML pages. The effect should be easier and more transparent navigation.
• All static HTML pages are now generated from an XHTML master file (you shouldn't really notice this, however).

2001-12-14:

• For each book, we have built concordances (list of all words in all languages, with number of occurrences, context, and links to the locations where they appear). See, for example, the concordance to Amoris divini emblemata.
• If you're using Internet Explorer, we'll show you some information about the texts and about navigating the site using tool tips.
• We've added some possibilities to navigate the site using quick access keys (again, if you're using Internet Explorer).
• In Amoris divini emblemata, more references to sources have been added.