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Bildindex Der Kunst Und Architektur
The Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur is an open online database of 2.2 million photographs of 1.7 million artworks and architectural objects. The owner/operator of this database is the German Documentation Center for Art History known formally as Bildarchiv Foto Marburg. In addition to its own image holdings, around 1 million images from 50 partner institutions are also available online. Not all images are of German objects. In 1976 the institution purchased thousands of photographs of the ''Du (magazine), Du'' magazine of the Swiss publishing house Conzett & Huber (publishing house), Conzett & Huber. Between 1977 and 2008, 1.4 million photographs from 15 different institutions were made available on microfiche by Bildarchiv Foto Marburg as the "Marburger Index - the list of art in Germany". Published digital reproductions of these microfiche photographs from the original partner institutions now form the basis of the image index. References * Further reading * ''Photogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Database
An online database is a database accessible from a local network or the Internet, as opposed to one that is stored locally on an individual computer or its attached storage (such as a CD). Online databases are hosted on websites, made available as software as a service products accessible via a web browser. They may be free or require payment, such as by a monthly subscription. Some have enhanced features such as collaborative editing and email notification. Cloud database A cloud database is a database that is run on and accessed via the Internet, rather than locally. So, rather than keep a customer information database at one location, a business may choose to have it hosted on the Internet so that all its departments or divisions can access and update it. Most database services offer web-based consoles, which the end user can use to provision and configure database instances. See also * List of online databases ** Bibliographic databases * Customer relationship management * List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Du (magazine)
''Du'' is a magazine focused on art and culture, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded in 1941 and was often viewed as one of the leading voices on art and culture in Europe. The magazine is known for its focus on photography; prominent photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Werner Bischof and Réne Burri were contributors for the magazine. History In 1941 the publishing house Conzett & Huber decided to sell the ''Zürcher Illustrierte'' and to publish a new magazine in order to promote a color print it developed which enabled the printing of multi-colored photographs in good quality.Locher, Hubert (2013) p.308 It was headquartered in Zürich, and the publishing house gave Arnold Kübler, the former editor-in-chief of the ''Zürcher Illustrierte'', the lead over the new magazine. The content of the magazine was less important to the publishers; the first issue included several pages with colorful publicity, some of the fashion-related pages were also in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conzett & Huber (publishing House)
Conzett & Huber was a Swiss publishing house known for the magazines '' Du'' and ''Zürcher Illustrated.'' In 1908, Verena Conzett made the decision to expand her small print shop into the magazine publisher Conzett & Cie (Conzett & Co.), with lawyer Emil Huber as a "silent shareholder". Huber took over operational management of the company in 1918. By 1929, the company was known as Conzett & Huber. In 1944, Walther Meier founded Manesse Verlag at Conzett & Huber, which sold it to Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt in 1983. In 1994, the Conzett + Huber AG merged with the Alfred Walter AG to create the Conzett + Walter AG. Early history The origins of Conzett & Huber can be traced to a small print shop belonging to Conrad Conzett, an early leader in the Swiss labor movement. In 1898, Verena Conzett, a leader in the labor movement in her own right, took over the heavily indebted print shop following his suicide. In 1908, she established Conzett & Co. as a magazine publisher, with suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microfiche
Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of documents, typically either films or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about 4% or of the original document size. For special purposes, greater optical reductions may be used. Three formats are common: microfilm (reels), microfiche (flat sheets), and aperture cards. Microcards, also known as "micro-opaques", a format no longer produced, were similar to microfiche, but printed on cardboard rather than photographic film. History Using the daguerreotype process, John Benjamin Dancer was one of the first to produce microphotographs, in 1839. He achieved a reduction ratio of 160:1. Dancer refined his reduction procedures with Frederick Scott Archer's wet collodion process, developed in 1850–51, but he dismissed his decades-long work on microphotographs as a personal hobby and did not document his procedures. The idea that microphotography could be no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Reproduction
Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Technology and computing Hardware *Digital electronics, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals ** Digital camera, which captures and stores digital images *** Digital versus film photography ** Digital computer, a computer that handles information represented by discrete values **Digital recording, information recorded using a digital signal Socioeconomic phenomena * Digital culture, the anthropological dimension of the digital social changes *Digital divide, a form of economic and social inequality in access to or use of information and communication technologies *Digital economy, an economy based on computing and telecommunications resources Other uses in technology and computing *Digital data, discrete data, usually represented using binary numbers *Digital marketing, search engine & social media presence booster, usually represented using online visibility. *Digital media, media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art History
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes related to an ever-evolving definition of art. Art history encompasses the study of objects created by different cultures around the world and throughout history that convey meaning, importance or serve usefulness primarily through visual representations. As a discipline, art history is distinguished from art criticism, which is concerned with establishing a relative artistic value upon individual works with respect to others of comparable style or sanctioning an entire style or movement; and art theory or "philosophy of art", which is concerned with the fundamental nature of art. One branch of this area of study is aesthetics, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open-access Archives
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright. The main focus of the open access movement is "peer reviewed research literature". Historically, this has centered mainly on print-based academic journals. Whereas non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls such as subscriptions, site licenses or pay-per-view charges, open-access journals are characterised by funding models which do not require the reader to pay to read the journal's contents, relying instead on author fees or on public funding, subsidies and sponsorships. Open access can be applied to all forms of published research output, including peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed academic journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
