Digitising, Cataloguing, Searching and Sharing the Medieval and Early-Modern Image

One Day Workshop on Methodologies of Iconographic Indexations held ON LINE within the VeDPH collaboration


Date : 1st Oct 2021


Speakers
1. Ilaria Andreoli, Fondazione Cini
2. Giles Bergel, Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford
3. Maria Alessandra Bilotta, Universidade Nova of Lisbon
4. Hans Brandhorst, Iconclass
5. Flavia Bruni, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico
6. Jost Depuydt, Plantin Moretus Museum
7. Rembrandt Duits, The Warburg Institute
8. Barbara Ellertson, BASIRA Project
9. Doug Emery, BASIRA Project
10. Gennaro Ferrante, Illuminated Dante Project
11. Nick Herman, BASIRA Project
12. Harald Klinke, LMU Munich
13. Ilenia Maschietto, Fondazione Cini
14. Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, Università di Torino
15. Ciro Perna, Illuminated Dante Project
16. Ethienne Postumus, Iconclass
17. Régis Robineau, IIIF/Biblissima Project
18. Maria Alessia Rossi, Index of Medieval Art
19. Drew Thomas, University College Dublin
20. Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin



Abstract
In the past few years, an increasing effort has been put into developing new systems for gathering, sharing and describing images with the help of digital technologies. Projects have been taking advantage of the new developments for creating databases and digital tools to gather and make searchable Medieval and Early-Modern images of different kinds (illuminations, paintings, printed illustrations, stamps, etc.)
This one-day workshop will bring together people currently involved in such projects, to discuss the objectives and the technical features of the different platforms, data gathering strategies, methodologies adopted for the iconographic and figurative description and future developments, with
a specific focus on the main challenges encountered by each project, possible links, and interoperability.
The main aim of the workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and the creation of new operating connections within this community of practice, while offering an overview of the state of the art as far as the treatment of digital images as objects of research are concerned.