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Friday, 16th October 2009

Indiana University: One Image, Too Much Information

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IU [Indiana University] School of Library and Information Science assistant professor John Walsh will collaborate with researchers from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the Digital Humanities Observatory in Belfast, Ireland, through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Backed by $400,000 just awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Walsh will collaborate with peers from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) in Belfast, Ireland, to develop a new technical infrastructure designed for unleashing all of the knowledge connected to any one image or document, from a historic manuscript or painting to an image in a children's book or a graphic novel.

We're all working together to develop an advanced suite of tools for linking texts and images, and developing image-based digital humanities resources," said Walsh, who is also director of SLIS's Digital Library Specializations program. "Despite the proliferation of image-based editions and archives, the linking of images and textual information remains a slow and frustrating process for editors and curators."

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Imagine viewing online a detailed portion of one of Michelangelo's frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling and then being able to obtain every possible piece of linked information about any image in the fresco: the story behind an angel, the meaning of a scroll or a chalice, the provenance of related art, a list of researchers currently studying some aspect of the work.
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They've dubbed the project Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE), and over the next two years they will develop a new Web-based image markup tool that will, among other things, allow symbols, shapes and labels to be displayed as overlays on a base image -- like a detail of a Sistine Chapel fresco -- that then provide links to extensive annotations stored in a searchable database. The team sees TILE as the next generation of technical infrastructure supporting image-based editions and electronic archives within the humanities.

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