Description
The Stuttgart-based online database, fully functioning since 2011, now already covers 13096 illustrators of publications in natural history, medicine, technology and various sciences in more than 100 countries, active between c.1450 and 1950, explicitly excluding still living illustrators. Basic search for names of illustrators or clients, regions of activity or techniques are possible, but also advanced Search with a combination of 21 different search fields. Temporalized geospatial maps of DSI -entries and a beacon-file correlating DSI-IDs and viaf-numbers are also available
Record
| ROAR ID: | 21086 |
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| Home Page: | https://dsi.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/ |
| Repository Type: | Research Cross-Institutional |
| Organisation: | Abt. GNT, History Dept., Univ.Stuttgart, Prof. Dr. Klaus Hentschel, ibidem, many dozens of external contributors world-wide |
| Additional Information: | A brief (partly outdated) survey of DSI is given in https://www.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/gnt/datenbanken/DSI-Flyer.pdf cf. also Klaus Hentschel: "The Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950: Making the Invisible Hands Visible", Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science. 6 (1): 182–191, doi:10.4245/sponge.v6i1.17156; Klaus Hentschel & Torsten Himmel: "Die Stuttgarter Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450-1950 (DSI)" in Peggy Bockwinkel & Beatrice Nickel & Gabriel Viehhauser (eds.). Digital Humanities. Perspektiven der Praxis, Berlin 2018 and further links provided in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_Database_of_Scientific_Illustrators_1450%E2%80%931950 |
| Software: | Other softwares (various) (version other) |
| Country: | Europe > Germany |
| Location: | Country City Latitude Longitude Germany Stuttgart 48.7824 9.1746 |
| Birth Date1: | 30 September 2023 10:14:53 UTC |
| OAI-PMH Interface: | https://www.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/gnt/dokumente/BeaconDatei-final.pdf ?Identify ?ListMetadataFormats |
| Record Creator: | Prof. Dr. Klaus Hentschel |
| 1 | Birth Date is either when the repository was first registered in ROAR or the earliest record found via the OAI-PMH interface. |
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