Michiel Duvekot

December 28, 2008

Thought Lab

Europeana, the new European Virtual library has a thought lab.

I'm not sure how a semantic search engine helps one "think", but it is nice to see items "organized", which is really another word for "made accessible" by other means than a taxonomy. Perhaps we will eventually find a way to make search engines work in a way that is better for humans.

Interestingly, part of the thought lab is IconClass, that I wrote about years ago. Nice to know they're still around.

My first attempts with the prototype yielded a very nice picture by Pieter Huys (1519-1584) from the collection of the Louvre. No, it's not a Jeroen Bosch, not even a contemporary (Bosch died in 1516).

Pieter Huys - La Tentation de Saint Antoine

It is really a shame that the resolution of the images is so low.

Posted by mduvekot at 11:57 AM

December 27, 2008

facebook

See if this works

Posted by mduvekot at 09:17 PM