Digital Editions
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arthistoricum.net supports art scholars worldwide in providing text and image corpora within the framework of digital editions. Heidelberg University Library has set itself the goal of uniting a heterogeneous and broad spectrum of written artefacts and edited texts under a common roof and enabling editions with different levels of indexing. Among other things, correspondence, illuminated manuscripts, source texts within the framework of catalogues raisonnés, handwritten notebooks or diaries written by artists, but also art journals will be processed.
Goals include the use of current standards in text and image mark-up (XML/TEI) as well as the possibility of personalised annotation and commenting. All content is made available in open access and in accordance with FAIR principles.
The TEI schema and rule set of heiEDITONS used for data modelling is a TEI-compliant adaptation of the general XML-based rule set of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). The Heidelberg digitisation system DWork and the open source XML database eXist-db are used for the technical realisation of the digital editions.
The starting point is the formal indexing, which structures the text into semantic and content-related units and takes into account layout specifics of the source. The editorial work is done by further indexing, which includes editorial interventions (e.g. normalisations) and editorial comments. This is supplemented by the dynamic integration and display of register entries, which can also be enriched with information from the GND. In addition to the transcription in source view, a reading view of the texts will also be visualised in the future.
In addition to optimising the visualisation of the edition results - in coordination with various cooperation partners - the possibilities for supporting the specialist community in the concrete creation of digital editions are currently being further developed.
Current Edition Projects scroll to top
Camera Work
The research project "Camera Work - Inside / Out: History, Present and Future of an International Medium of Art and Photography History" is currently in a pilot phase at the Chair of History of Fine Art at the Art History Institute of the University of Zurich. The aim of the project is the development and use of technical and structurally advanced working and publication tools of digital humanities to allow access to the extensive and media-heterogeneous research material.
Further information on Camera Work
duerer.online
Since June 2020, the Heidelberg University Library has been working with the museums of the city of Nuremberg and the Albrecht-Dürer-Haus-Stiftung e.V. to develop a virtual research network on Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). The basic idea behind the DFG-funded project is to first catalogue the works mentioned in the artist's extensive written estate. Selected sources that serve as a data basis are being edited, in part synoptically.
Family Correspondence Klee online
The aim of the project, which is currently being set up in cooperation with the Art History Institute of the University of Zurich, is to use the technically and structurally advanced working and publication instruments of Digital Humanities to produce a text-critical and art-historically annotated edition of the extensive correspondence between Lily Klee and her son Felix Klee.
Further information on „Familienkorrespondenz Klee online“
The «Maltechnik-Notizbuch» by Hans Emmenegger
The subject of the project is the online edition of a notebook that the Central Swiss painter Hans Emmenegger (1866-1940) systematically filled with painterly information in the first quarter of the 20th century; today it is in the artist's estate in the Central and University Library of Lucerne.
Further information on Das «Maltechnik-Notizbuch» von Hans Emmenegger
Marco Boschini's ‘La carta del navegar pitoresco.’ Venetian-German edition
Marco Boschini's art theory treatise La carta del navegar pitoresco (1660) is one of the most important texts of 17th-century Venice. The aim of the digital edition, which is currently under construction, is to present this monumental dialogue for the first time in a critically annotated, bilingual edition. It is the result of a project based initially at the Ruhr University Bochum and subsequently at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf project Discrepant Traditions, ‘Old’-“New” Hybrids and Genre Mixes in Venetian Painting and Art Theory of the Seicento.
Further information about the edition of Marco Boschini's ‘La carta del navegar pitoresco’.
The Nuremberg Schembartlauf – digital
The digital edition makes the multi-layered handwritten tradition of the Nuremberg Schembartlauf (1449–1539) accessible as a text and image portal. The surviving Schembart texts and illustrations have been systematically recorded, made comparable and prepared for research. The aim of the project is to digitally document this culturally and artistically significant carnival tradition and make it permanently accessible.
The digital edition is being produced in cooperation between Heidelberg University Library and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.
Further information about the Nuremberg Schembartlauf – digital
Unique source material on the German art trade digitally networked: Provenances, actors and objects in hand and protocol catalogues of auction and inventory catalogues 1860-1950
The DFG project catalogues annotated hand copies of auction and stock catalogues from the German art trade from 1860 to 1950. In cooperation between the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and the Heidelberg University Library, the unique copies are being digitised, structured and provided with a TEI-based name index. The aim is to make key players (consignors and clients) and trade networks in the historical art market systematically searchable.
Further information about Unique source material on the German art trade digitally networked
Welscher Gast digital
A first example is the TEI-based digital text-image-edition of the „Welschen Gastes“ by Thomasin von Zerklaere, a collaboration project by UB Heidelberg and the Collaborate Research Centre „Materiale Textkulturen“ (SFB 933) of Heidelberg University.
We would be happy to advise you on your digital publishing projects.
Contact
Dr. Maria Effinger
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Plöck 107-109
69117 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49 62 21 54 35 61
E-Mail: effinger@ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Nicole Sobriel, M.A.
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Plöck 107-109
69117 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49 62 21 54 23 64
E-Mail: Sobriel@ub.uni-heidelberg.de