Digilib: studying und annotating scholarly images via internet

Research report (imported) 2005 - Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History

Authors

Raspe, Martin; Robert Casties

Departments

Architekturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kieven)
Bibliotheca Hertziana - MPI für Kunstgeschichte, RomMalerei und Bildkünste der Frühen Neuzeit (Prof. Dr. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer)
Bibliotheca Hertziana - MPI für Kunstgeschichte, Rom

Summary

Digilib is a software tool for the scholarly study of images via internet. Images can be zoomed and annotated in a persistent way. It was developed as open source software by the Berlin Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome in collaboration with the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science at Bern University. Digilib opens up new perspectives of scholarly research working on digital images.

For the full text, see the German version.