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 The
collections of Emblem books of the Herzog August Bibliothek
(HAB) and the University of Illinois (UIUC) level
amongst the greatest collections of emblem books worldwide.
The HAB-UIUC cooperation project Emblematica Online
aims to digitize, index and do research on emblem
books as well as to develop structures and standards,
which allow for joint access on both databases and
which may serve as a prototype for similar image-text
related projects in the humanities. Till 2007 the
cooperation was financed by the Alexander v. Humboldt
foundation, since 2009 jointly by the DFG und NEH
("Bilateral Digital Humanities Program").
By 2011 800 emblem books will be digitized, mottos
transcribed, indexed with ICONCLASS notations and
made available via the OpenEmblem Portal..
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