Enhancing the Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustration (DMVI; www.dmvi.cardiff.ac.uk/)

增强维多利亚中期木刻插图数据库（DMVI；www.dmvi.cardiff.ac.uk/）

• 批准号: AH/H037578/1
• 负责人: Julia Thomas
• 金额: $ 12.35万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH037578%2F1
• 关键词: Enhancing; Database; Mid; Victorian; Wood

This application seeks funding to guarantee the long-term sustainability and increased impact of a much-valued resource developed through previous AHRC funding: the Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustration (2004-7; DMVI; www.dmvi.cardiff.ac.uk/). The proposal grows out of two other AHRC projects: an ICT Methods Network Workshop on 'Annotating Images' (2007) and a Museums, Galleries and Libraries Network (LICAU 2007-8). The PIs for these projects (Thomas, Rana, Skilton) have united to develop this proposal and pool their expertise and contacts across different sectors. The application exploits recent technical advances not only to improve DMVI as it now exists, but to enhance it so that it can become the core for more extensive database work with literary illustration. DMVI's unique value to humanities research lies in its digitised storage and bibliographic and iconographic descriptions of almost 900 illustrations that accompanied literary texts in 1862, a key year in the so-called 'golden age' of illustration. The images and metadata are accessible on a fully-searchable website. DMVI has played a major role in elevating the status of illustration. The project was graded 'outstanding' by AHRC assessors, who commented on its significance across the fields of print culture, visual arts and cultural history. A review in the Journal of Victorian Culture said DMVI 'raises the entire profile of illustration as a semi-autonomous category and a proper field for scholarly investigation' (13:1, 108-113). This proposal arises because of the widespread recognition that DMVI's significance is considerably more extensive than originally envisaged. Its iconographic system has been adapted by other Victorian databases (see Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition http://www.ncse.ac.uk/index.html), while its structures have been used in diverse image-based projects: the Victorian Manchester Image Database (http://web.leedstrinity.ac.uk/history/mh/dmvi/index.html) and Illustrating Scott (http://illustratingscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html). DMVI images have also been requested for use by TV, film and publishing companies, graphic designers, community and tourism websites, and the heritage industry. Recognising the major impact of DMVI in such a range of academic and commercial contexts, this proposal seeks to guarantee its sustainability and enhance its impact as follows:1. Ensuring technical sustainability by converting the data to MySQL. For archiving purposes, a version of DMVI will be deposited with key image repositories (e.g. NINES, (http://www.nines.org/; Europeana, http://www.europeana.eu/portal/).2. Increasing the impact of content by the mapping of ICONCLASS codes, enabling browsing in languages other than English and cross-searching between DMVI and third-sector collections worldwide.3. Allowing for community editing, first, by providing an interface for the addition of new records, allowing non-specialists to add material, and accommodating new fields for medium, date, language and verbal context; second, by exploring the use of community tagging to generate meaningful and authoritative data.4. Enhancing the search facility to permit further development and the implementation of the database mechanisms in other contexts.5. Developing an open source Image Management System, so that users (academics or others) can develop their own image-based datasets based on DMVI. This follows the successful adaptations by the Victorian Manchester Image Database and Illustrating Scott. 6. Creating impact in schools through teaching-support sites and resources, with the advice of a consultant from the Institute of Education.By these developments, the significant existing benefits of the AHRC's investment will be multiplied by turning DMVI into a resource with international cross-sector reach and by enabling a broad range of users to directly contribute to the further growth of a rich, multifaceted resource.

本申请寻求资助，以保证通过之前的 AHRC 资助开发的非常有价值的资源的长期可持续性和更大的影响：维多利亚中期木刻插图数据库（2004-7；DMVI；www.dmvi.cardiff.ac.uk/）。该提案源于 AHRC 的另外两个项目：“图像注释”ICT 方法网络研讨会（2007 年）和博物馆、画廊和图书馆网络（LICAU 2007-8）。这些项目的 PI（Thomas、Rana、Skilton）联合起来制定了这项提案，并汇集了他们在不同部门的专业知识和联系。该应用程序利用最新的技术进步，不仅改进了现有的 DMVI，而且增强了它，使其成为更广泛的文学插图数据库工作的核心。 DMVI 对人文学科研究的独特价值在于它对 1862 年文学文本中的近 900 幅插图进行了数字化存储以及书目和图像描述，这一年是所谓的插图“黄金时代”的关键一年。图像和元数据可在完全可搜索的网站上访问。 DMVI 在提升插画地位方面发挥了重要作用。该项目被 AHRC 评估员评为“优秀”，评价其在印刷文化、视觉艺术和文化历史领域的重要性。 《维多利亚文化杂志》上的一篇评论称 DMVI“将插画的整体形象提升为半自治类别和学术研究的适当领域”（13:1, 108-113）。这一提议的提出是因为人们普遍认识到 DMVI 的重要性比最初设想的要广泛得多。它的图像系统已被其他维多利亚时代数据库改编（参见十九世纪连续剧版http://www.ncse.ac.uk/index.html），而其结构已用于各种基于图像的项目：维多利亚曼彻斯特图像数据库 （http://web.leedstrinity.ac.uk/history/mh/dmvi/index.html）和斯科特插图（http://illustrationscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html）。电视、电影和出版公司、平面设计师、社区和旅游网站以及遗产行业也要求使用 DMVI 图像。认识到 DMVI 在如此广泛的学术和商业环境中的重大影响，本提案力求保证其可持续性并增强其影响，具体如下：1．通过将数据转换为 MySQL 确保技术可持续性。出于存档目的，DMVI 版本将与关键图像存储库一起存放（例如 NINES，（http://www.nines.org/；Europeana，http://www.europeana.eu/portal/）。2. 通过 ICONCLASS 代码的映射来增加内容的影响力，支持以英语以外的语言浏览并在不同语言之间进行交叉搜索。 DMVI 和全球第三部门收藏。3．允许社区编辑，首先，通过提供添加新记录的界面，允许非专家添加材料，并容纳媒介、日期、语言和口头语境的新字段；其次，探索使用社区标签来生成有意义且权威的数据。4．增强搜索设施，以允许在其他情况下进一步开发和实施数据库机制。5． 开发开源图像管理系统，以便用户（学者或其他人）可以基于 DMVI 开发自己的基于图像的数据集。这是继维多利亚曼彻斯特图像数据库和斯科特插图的成功改编之后的。 6. 根据教育研究所顾问的建议，通过教学支持站点和资源在学校中产生影响。通过这些发展，AHRC 投资的重大现有效益将通过转变而倍增。 将 DMVI 打造成具有国际跨部门影响力的资源，并让广泛的用户能够直接为丰富、多方面资源的进一步增长做出贡献。

项目成果

'Illustration Studies and the Infinite Archive.'

“插图研究和无限档案。”

• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Journal of Illustration Studies
• 作者: Skilton, D

reading Victorian Illustrations

阅读维多利亚时代的插图

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Thomas, J

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

牛津维多利亚文学文化手册

• DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199593736.013.012
• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Thomas J