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The ARTECHNE research database can no longer be used. The data is archived at Zenodo and DANS. The source code which was used can be found in the GitHub repository.
The ARTECHNE research database contained fully searchable digitized sources on artisanal techniques, such as recipes, books of secrets, and artist handbooks, from the period 1500-1900, in Latin, Dutch, German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
The database was developed as part of the ARTECHNE research project. What is ‘technique’ in the visual and decorative arts? And how is ‘technique’ transmitted? Those were the central questions of ARTECHNE. This five-year project (2015-2020) was supported by the European Research Council, and led by Sven Dupré at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. The database was primarily a tool for the ARTECHNE researchers to digitally store, compare, and analyze their textual sources and reconstruction experiments. As these sources are also potentially useful for other researchers, we made the database public. Please credit us if you want to refer to our sources or use analytic results from the database.
The search results could be viewed as lists, word clouds, and collocation analyses. Because all sources are geotagged, it was also possible to visualize geographical and historical spreading of the sources that come up in any given search in the geographical map and timeline. A final option was to compare texts for text reuse.
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The ERC ARTECHNE project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 648718) and is a cooperation of Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam.
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