Deze serie duikt in de fascinerende kruising van de negentiende eeuw en de digitale geesteswetenschappen. Elke band biedt beknopte maar inzichtelijke verkenningen van methodologieën, uitkomsten en theoretische benaderingen die ons begrip van dit historische tijdperk in het digitale tijdperk vormgeven. De publicaties analyseren niet alleen bestaande digitale projecten, maar projecteren ook toekomstige onderzoeksrichtingen. Het dient als een waardevolle bron voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in de samensmelting van geschiedenis en technologie.
Focusing on the intersection of nineteenth-century illustrations and digital technology, the book explores challenges in making these artworks accessible online, including searchability and the complexities of crowdsourced tagging. It critically examines various online resources, providing a conceptual model to enhance understanding of historical illustrations in a digital context, emphasizing the importance of visual culture in contemporary scholarship.
This book brings the study of nineteenth-century illustrations into the digital age. The key issues discussed include the difficulties of making illustrations visible online, the mechanisms for searching the content of illustrations, and the politics of crowdsourced image tagging. Analyzing a range of online resources, the book offers a conceptual and critical model for engaging with and understanding nineteenth-century illustration through its interplay with the digital. In its exploration of the intersections between historic illustrations and the digital, the book is of interest to those working in illustration studies, digital humanities, word and image, nineteenth-century studies, and visual culture.