Digital Publications
Elisa Bastianello
Hertziana Studies in Art History
In December 2022 the Bibliotheca Hertziana launched its first born-digital publication series titled Hertziana Studies in Art History. Its goal has been to create the ideal environment for those scholarly publications of the Institute that benefit most from a digital format allowing web links, semantic annotations, interactive content, and open linked data connections (to name a few).
The interim has seen the appearance of a further two volumes, devoted in both cases to themes that exhibit a pronounced affinity to the digital medium. The series is diamond open access with no charges for authors and all contributions are peer reviewed. The platform is maintained by Ubiquity Press, but the entire editorial workflow, including final encoding, is done in-house. In order to improve the sustainability of digital publishing processes, we have developed a set of digital tools, which are combined in the DFG project ‘PubLink.’
1. Walking Through History. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Flavio Biondo’s Spaces in the "Italia Illustrata" ed. Tanja Michalsky, Martin Thiering, Munich-Rome 2022 DOI: 10.48431/hsah.0100
2. Visualizing Complexities. Practices and Heuristics of Digital Models in Art History, ed. Nicola Camerlenghi, Tanja Michalsky, Elisabetta Scirocco, Munich-Rome 2023 DOI: 10.48431/hsah.02
3. From Hype to Reality: Artificial Intelligence in the Study of Art and Culture, ed. Eva Cetinić, Darío Negueruela del Castillo, Munich-Rome 2024 DOI: 10.48431/hsah.03
Heinrich Wölfflin – Gesammelte Werke Digitale Edition (HWGW)
The HWGW digital edition takes the volumes of the critical edition and creates an open access digital version that enriches the content with rich annotation of the bibliography and named entities such as places, people, and works. This creates indexes that are common to the entire series and are connected to recognized external databases such as the GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei). Accompanying images include the original original volumes annoted by the author (housed at the Getty Research Institute) and high-resolution images hosted on the IIIF server of the Institute’s library and photo library. The platform was developed in collaboration with UZH and is hosted at the Max Planck Computer and Data Facility (MPCDF).
The series, which went online in beta format in 2022, was officially launched with the first two printed volumes in 2024, while the following two volumes are currently being annotated.
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3. Heinrich Wölfflin. Salomon Geßner (1889). Einleitung von Wolfgang Proß. Kommentar und Bearbeitung von Elisabeth-Christine Gamer. Annotation Sven Meier. Hg. v. Tristan Weddigen und Oskar Bätschmann. 2024 DOI: 10.48431/hwgw.s03
4. Heinrich Wölfflin. Die Jugendwerke des Michelangelo (1891). Einleitung von Joseph Imorde. Bearbeitung und Kommentar von Karolina Zgraja. Annotation Sven Meier. Hg. v. Tristan Weddigen und Oskar Bätschmann
HumanitiesConnect Digital Library
The HumanitiesConnect Digital Library was established in 2020 with the aim of making digitized rare volume texts accessible and citable with the help of neural transcriptions. The platform is managed by READ-COOP sce.
In 2023, the digitization campaign of travel literature volumes was complemented by the assignment of this literature to a new special collection in the digital library. For the occasion, the site was updated to accommodate multiple collections and a new neural page segmentation model was developed to annotate the structure of the texts.