Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age
Nezih Erdogan, Ebru Kayaalp (eds)
- Title
- Mesotext
- Subtitle
- Digitised Emblems, Modelled Annotations and Humanities Scholarship
- Author
- Peter Boot
- Price
- € 54,95 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789085550525
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 20 - 10 - 2009
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- Pallas Proefschriften
- Discipline
- Film, Media, and Communication
Table of Contents - 6
Part I. Context of this Study - 12
1. Introduction - 14
2. An Introduction to Emblem Studies - 20
3. Annotating the Digital Edition - 32
Part II. Emblem Digitisation and the Emblem Project Utrecht - 50
4. A Model for Digital Emblem Editions - 52
5. Digital Editing and Text Modelling: The Case of the Emblem Project Utrecht - 66
Part III. Digital Annotation Tools - 74
6. Digital Edition Annotation using EDITOR - 76
7. A Sane Approach to Annotation in the Digital Edition - 98
8. Decoding Emblem Semantics - 116
9. Creating a Metaphor Index - 132
10. Towards a TEI-Based Encoding Scheme for the Annotation of Parallel Texts - 150
Part IV. Emblem Studies - 170
11. A Mirror to the Eyes of the Mind. Metaphor in Otto van Veen’s Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp1615) - 172
12. Playing and Displaying Love. Theatricality in Otto van Veen’s Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp1615) - 186
Part V. Reflections - 202
13. Mesotext. Framing and Exploring Annotations - 204
14. Conclusion - 218
Appendices - 228
Samenvatting - 250
Glossary – List of Abbreviations - 258
Literature - 262
Acknowledgements - 286
Curriculum Vitae - 288
Peter Boot
Mesotext
Digitised Emblems, Modelled Annotations and Humanities Scholarship
The most strikingly missing piece of functionality in current digital editions is that of annotation. Digital editions should offer a facility where researchers can store structured and unstructured observations with respect to the edited texts.
This book discusses a number of approaches to annotation systems in the context of the study of emblems, the sixteenth and seventeenth century literary genre that joins an image, a motto and an often moralizing epigram.
When handled properly, annotation can become mesotext, text positioned between the annotated texts and the scholarly articles and monographs for which the annotations provide the evidence. In a digital context, it should be possible to navigate back and forth between annotated text, annotation and article.
Peter Boot was born in 1961. He studied Mathematics in Leiden and Dutch Language and Culture in Utrecht, where
he specialised in Older Dutch Literature. Since 2003 he has been employed at the Huygens Institute, where he works as a humanities computing consultant and researcher.
This book discusses a number of approaches to annotation systems in the context of the study of emblems, the sixteenth and seventeenth century literary genre that joins an image, a motto and an often moralizing epigram.
When handled properly, annotation can become mesotext, text positioned between the annotated texts and the scholarly articles and monographs for which the annotations provide the evidence. In a digital context, it should be possible to navigate back and forth between annotated text, annotation and article.
Peter Boot was born in 1961. He studied Mathematics in Leiden and Dutch Language and Culture in Utrecht, where
he specialised in Older Dutch Literature. Since 2003 he has been employed at the Huygens Institute, where he works as a humanities computing consultant and researcher.
Author
Peter Boot
Peter Boot is a researcher in Humanities Computing in the e-Research department of the Huygens Institute (The Hague) and wrote a PhD thesis at Utrecht University.
