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OFFICIAL RELEASE OF A DIGICULT SPECIAL PUBLICATION DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE RENAISSANCE EMBLEM LITERATURE AS A CASE STUDY FOR THE DIGITIZATION OF RARE TEXT AND IMAGES DigiCULT Forum published alongside the series of DigiCULT Publications a special edition on the digitization of emblem books. The twelve articles which stem from the working conference on emblem digitization held in September 2003 at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, allow to exemplify how scholars in a highly specialised area of research together with digital librarians have taken advantage of information technologies, standards, and emerging best practices for the digitization of emblems and emblem books, and the scholarly work related to them. The complexity of practises is illustrated by the key issues and methods covered in this DigiCULT Special Publication: establishing metadata, using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard, indexing emblems (e.g. with Iconclass), collection-level descriptions, metadata exchange procedures, using the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol (OAI-MHP) for emblem data, federated searching based on ontologies, and establishment of an emblems portal. Download DigiCULT Special Publication LowRes 5,4 MB http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/dc_emblemsbook_lowres.pdf| HighRes 20 MB http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/dc_emblemsbook_highres.pdf DigiCULT Publications offer a valuable resource of mission-critical information in the selection and use of digital technologies for Europe’s heritage organisations: - Thematic Issues: results of expert fora http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php - DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports: in-depth technology evaluation http://www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php - DigiCULT.Info Newsletter: articles about services, studies, technologies, and activities http://www.digicult.info/pages/newsletter.php - DigiCULT Website: info, events, links, all publications online for download http://www.digicult.info/pages/index.php (c) DigiCULT Forum 2002-2004