31 The Essling LOD Project
From the Census to the Copies
abstract
Les livres à figures vénitiens de la fin du XVe siècle et du commencement du XVIe (1907-1914), whose author is Victor Masséna, Prince of Essling, is a census of all illustrated books printed in Venice from 1469 to 1525. The bibliographical descriptions are chronologically organised, on the basis of a ‘genealogical’ approach, suitable for studying the iconographical and stylistic evolution of illustration. Almost all copies of Essling’s Venetian collection are now part of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini library. We conceived a digital tool based on the LOD technology that allows easy navigation among the data, connected with the national and international catalogues, and accompanied by facsimiles of the Cini copies.
Keywords: Fondazione Giorgio Cini • 16th century • Venice • Semantic web • Victor Masséna • Duc de Rivoli • Prince d’Essling • Linked Open Data • 15th century • Early-Modern Printed Book • Renaissance • Xylography • LOD • 16thcentury • Book Illustration • Digital Humanities