The team is currently working to form a directory of Aesopian fables, using a computing infrastructure which will make it possible to encode and publish metadata via indexing terminology (http://www.rdaregistry.info).
This method will allow us to create a network that includes several documents digitised by the Bodmer Lab as well as some in other digital libraries on the Web. It will then be possible to link together multiple works and, within these works, to develop more detailed connections between the fables and their illustrations.
In line with the scientific aims of Labex OBVIL’s Fabula numerica, this constellation is dedicated, firstly, to creating a family tree of all identified incarnations of “The Grasshopper and the Ant” [“La Cigale et la fourmi”].
All of the digitised documents currently available online will be linked together in a tree structure, represented by RDF-type semantic relationships. This fable will thereby serve as an initial case study to test the new possibilities offered by the Semantic Web and the dynamic connections between digital objects (Linked Open Data).
A second piece of this constellation will focus on producing an annotated directory of illustrations from the fables.
Radu Suciu
University of Geneva
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Autographs
The Bibliotheca Bodmeriana includes nearly 500 handwritten French manuscripts from authors including Rimbaud, Marie Curie Flaubert, Proust and Mallarmé.
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Faust
Martin Bodmer’s admiration for Goethe led him to acquire innumerable documents related to Faust
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EMEB
Early Modern English Books
There are 37 Shakespeare titles in the collection, including several first editions of quarto playbooks and a First Folio which contains Shakespeare’s co…
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1483-1700
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TDBC
The De Bry Collection
The De Bry collection, composed of more than twenty-five volumes, amounts to a vast collection of travel narratives illustrated with prints.
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1590-1634
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Rabelais
The first editions of his Pantagruel fiction have long been highly sought after by bibliophiles.
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WL
World Literature
Martin Bodmer was unique in his concrete realisation of his personal vision of world literature in the form of a collection.
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BP
Bodmer Papyri
The aim of this constellation is to produce a detailed, online catalog of the papyrus and parchment manuscripts at the Fondation Martin Bodmer.
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MC
Menander Codex
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AF
Aesopian Fables
Work on the constitution of a repertory of esopic fables from the Bodmeriana and linked to other copies available in other digital libraries on the Web.
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TDL
The Didactics of Literature
The Bodmer Lab has been driven since the beginning by the goal of taking into consideration the implications of its research on teaching, in primary and …
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