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

这项申请寻求资金，以保证通过AHRC以前的资助开发的一种非常有价值的资源的长期可持续性和更大的影响：维多利亚中期木雕插图数据库(2004-7；DMVI；www.dmvi.carff.ac.uk/)。该建议源于AHRC的另外两个项目：关于“注释图像”的信息和传播技术方法网络讲习班(2007年)和博物馆、美术馆和图书馆网络(LICAU，2007-8)。这些项目的私人投资主管(托马斯、拉纳、斯基尔顿)联合起来制定了这项建议，并汇集了他们在不同部门的专业知识和联系。该应用程序不仅利用了最新的技术进步来改进现有的DMVI，而且还对其进行了改进，使其能够成为更广泛的具有文学插图的数据库工作的核心。DMVI对人文科学研究的独特价值在于它的数字化存储以及对1862年文学文本中近900幅插图的书目和图像描述，1862年是插图的关键一年。这些图像和元数据可以在一个完全可搜索的网站上访问。DMVI在提高插图的地位方面发挥了重要作用。该项目被AHRC评审员评为“杰出的”，他们评论了它在印刷文化、视觉艺术和文化史领域的重要意义。《维多利亚文化杂志》的一篇评论称，DMVI将插图提升为一个半自主的类别，并成为一个合适的学术研究领域(13：1,108-113)。之所以提出这一建议，是因为人们普遍认识到，DMVI的意义比最初设想的要广泛得多。它的图像系统已被维多利亚时代的其他数据库改编(见19世纪连载版http://www.ncse.ac.uk/index.html)，，而其结构已被用于各种基于图像的项目：维多利亚时期曼彻斯特图像数据库(http://web.leedstrinity.ac.uk/history/mh/dmvi/index.html)和插图Scott(http://illustratingscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html).DMVI图像还被要求供电视、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使用。认识到DMVI在这样一系列学术和商业背景下的重大影响，本提案试图保证其可持续性，并加强其影响，具体如下：1.通过将数据转换为MySQL来确保技术可持续性。出于存档目的，DMVI的一个版本将与关键映像库一起存放(例如，九个，(http://www.nines.org/；Europe ana，http://www.europeana.eu/portal/).2.通过对ICONCLASS代码进行映射，增加内容的影响，实现英语以外的语言浏览，并在DMVI和世界范围内的第三部门收藏之间进行交叉搜索。允许社区编辑，首先，提供一个添加新记录的界面，允许非专业人员添加材料，并容纳媒体、日期、语言和语言上下文的新字段；第二，探索使用社区标签来生成有意义和权威的数据。5.加强搜索设施，以便在其他情况下进一步开发和实施数据库机制。开发一个开源的图像管理系统，以便用户(学术界或其他人)可以基于DMVI开发他们自己的基于图像的数据集。在此之前，维多利亚时代的曼彻斯特图像数据库成功地改编了斯科特的插图。6.在教育研究所一名顾问的建议下，通过教学支持网站和资源在学校中产生影响。通过这些发展，AHRC投资的重大现有好处将成倍增加，将DMVI转变为具有国际跨部门影响的资源，并使广泛的用户能够直接促进丰富的、多方面的资源的进一步增长。

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.