DRAWN TO THE PAGE

6 FEBRUARY 2015

Emma Clarke

Digital Humanities,

School of Computer Science

and Statistics,

Trinity College Dublin @Clarke__Emma@DrawnToThePage

Dr Angela Griffith

Department of History of

Art and Architecture,

Trinity College Dublin

Drawn to the Page

History of Art

Digital Humanities

Computer Science (TCHPC)

TCD Library / EPB / DRIS

M.Phil in Digital Humanities and Culture

http://dh.tcd.ie/dhc/

Exhibition of Irish Artistsand illustration

The Long Room, Trinity College Library

October 2012 – April 2013

From the page to the screen

Add screenshot of main page of database.

Drawn to the Page• A database of Irish artist illustrated titles held in TCD

libraries published from c.1830 – 1930

• Select illustrations from significant publications by Irish artists

• Biographical information on the artists and publishers involved

• Select information on the cultural contexts surrounding each image/illustrated text

Metadata: “the information that accompanies artifacts”

@DrawnToThePage #DTTP

Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931)

The history of a great house…(1926)

Dublin of the future…(1923)

Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen(1916)

http://www.tcd.ie/Library/about/exhibitions/drawn-to-the-page/

http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/#searchresults

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1582628&partId=1&searchText=Gethin&page=1

Harry Clarke, from Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914 - 1918 A - C Vol. I, 1923

Jack Yeats, From A Broadside, October 1911

Mabel Annesley, from Songs from Robert Burns, 1925

Harry Clarke, ‘Storks’ from Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen, (1916)

Daniel Maclise,The chimes: a goblin story…(1845)

http://dttp.tcd.ie/artist/16

Thank you.

Harry Clarke Goethe, Faust, 1926

References

• Kramer, Michael J. 2014. “Going Meta on Metadata.” Journal of

Digital Humanities.

• Sternfeld, Joshua. 2014. “Historical Understanding in the Quantum

Age.” Journal of Digital Humanities.