Hello, All!
I apologise for omitting to forward this announcement because it may be an interesting resource for many in the Art History fields!
Have a lovely Christmas and Holiday Season no matter where you are,
Cheerio
Alec
Renze Brandsma wrote:
> * Portrait collection from the University of Amsterdam available
> online
>
> The Library of the University of Amsterdam is pleased to announce
> a new image database. This database (
> http://logos.uba.uva.nl/portrettencollectie )
> contains the portrait gallery of the University Museum. The creation
> of this database is part of a general production process to make a variety
> of image collections available.
>
> In 1743 the protrait collection started with 50 humanist portraits from
> the estate of the Amsterdam merchant Gerard van Papenbroeck. Today,
> the collection consists of 500 portraits from professors and scientists
> mostly connected with the University of Amsterdam. The gallery
> offers a unique possibility to see all the portraits together, most of
> which are not publicly accessible. The database and interface are in Dutch.
>
> In the web interface the images of the portraits are available through
> the MrSID format. These are derivatives from the master images in TIFF.
> In the development of the database SGML/XML has been used,
> together with an SGML/XML-aware search engine. This search engine
> provides excellent support for word and phrase searching, indexing of
> SGML/XML elements and attributes, fast retrieval, and open systems
> integration. Dublin Core metadata has been used in order to make
> searching across all image collections (
> http://logos.uba.uva.nl/beelddatabank )
> possible. The collection specific fields are searchable through the
> collection specific interface.
>
> Portrait Collection: http://logos.uba.uva.nl/portrettencollectie
>
> Image Database: http://logos.uba.uva.nl/beelddatabank
>
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> Division of Electronic Services
> Library of the University of Amsterdam
> http://www.uba.uva.nl/en/
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