1. Mara R. Wade, Timothy W. Cole, MJ Han, Harriet Green, Tom Kilton, Caroline Szylowicz, Betsy Kruger Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures & University Library of University at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Emblematica Online II This project has received generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and on the UIUC campus from LAS, SLCL, GLL, the OVCR, the Grad College and the University Library, including especially RBML and DCC. http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu / Undergraduate Humanities Researchers Six undergraduates became the Emblem Scholars, enrolling in “Digital Humanities: Emblematica Online.” They learned about digital humanities in general, and, more specifically, about creating metadata for, and conducting their own research in, the OpenEmblem Portal. They presented posters at the Undergraduate Research Symposium 2013 and wrote research papers about their emblem books. Working with faculty mentors from History, Art History, Italian, French, and German, they transcribed 581 emblem mottos in French, Spanish, Italian, English, Dutch, Latin and Greek, and associated the mottos with the individual emblems in the books, creating a Handle URI for each emblem. Three Emblem Scholars continue their work in Fall 2013. Emblematica Online II builds on an initial UIUC/HAB prototyping project, expanding functionality & nearly doubling the corpus discoverable through the OpenEmblem Portal by adding metadata about, & links to, facsimiles of: Approximately 100 more volumes (~8,000 emblems) from UIUC-RBML collection 82 volumes (8,231 emblems) from collections at Glasgow & Utrecht Universities 400+ volumes from collections at Duke University & the Getty Research Library This project phase also examines expanded functionality and usability of the OpenEmbem Portal, use cases, and reciprocal models for archiving preservation masters across multiple institutions. Emblematica Online II builds on an initial UIUC/HAB prototyping project, expanding functionality & nearly doubling the corpus discoverable through the OpenEmblem Portal by adding metadata about, & links to, facsimiles of: Approximately 100 more volumes (~8,000 emblems) from UIUC-RBML collection 82 volumes (8,231 emblems) from collections at Glasgow & Utrecht Universities 400+ volumes from collections at Duke University & the Getty Research Library This project phase also examines expanded functionality and usability of the OpenEmbem Portal, use cases, and reciprocal models for archiving preservation masters across multiple institutions... Book Search MARC records are transformed to MODS and enriched with links to the Virtual International Authority File (viaf.org), to VD17 & VD18, and to available digital and physical surrogates... Emblem Search Cross-collection search Emblem descriptions, with links to emblem views & picturae, are integrated with book descriptions to form Spine metadata records. Browsing within a book Because emblems are associated with books, users can also browse emblems within a book. Research with Emblems Through the upgraded portal users will be able to see thumbnails of emblems, link to full views of emblems and their picturae at content provider repositories, save annotations as Open Annotation RDF instances, link to other emblems using Iconclass headings that have been assigned, view the transcribed mottos, and more. Hierarchical Browsing of Iconclass Through real-time calls to Iconclass.org Linked Open Data services, users of our Portal can navigate this internationally recognized classification system, as in this example. We index notations locally, but Iconclass terms (in any of 4 languages) are retrieved from Iconclass.org in real-time as users move through the hierarchy. Soon users will be able to query local Portal indexes and remote Iconclass indexes simultaneously, returning integrated results that match on combinations of metadata attributes and Iconclass keywords & terms. UIUC Glasgow HAB 25F24 (DROMEDARY) hoofed animals: dromedary 25F24 (DEER) Huftiere: Reh.. What is an Emblem? The early modern emblem flourished as a popular literary genre from 1531 until c. 1750. A mixed format, emblems integrate text and graphics – an archetype emblem consists of an inscriptio (textual motto), a pictura (graphic), and a subscriptio (text – typically verse). Emblem creators drew inspiration from the Bible, Classical antiquity, fables, natural history, mythology, science, and medicine as well as from current events.