245TitleAureum vellus, oder Guldin Schatz und Kunstkammer
100AuthorTrismosin, Salomon
008Date1598
041LanguageGerman
650SubjectsAlchemy
Managing your library
The library reads, translates, describes and links itself. Your team keeps full control: they check what matters, correct what needs it, and decide what goes live, within the roles you set. Every edit is logged and can be rolled back.
Looking after the pages around it? See Managing your website.
- RecordsFields mapped from your catalogue, names linked for you, new books coming in
- Transcription and translationRead automatically, checked where it matters, approved before it goes live
- Plates and imagesEvery illustration found, described and tagged
- CollectionsReference collections, with suggestions
- Roles and accessTeam roles and scopes, who can see what, an activity log
- History and exportEvery edit reversible by your team, everything exportable
Your catalogue, kept in its own shape
Books, pages, plates, people and places are records your team can edit. They are filled from the catalogue you already have, and kept linked to each other automatically.
Fields filled from your catalogue
Send a MARC, Dublin Core or spreadsheet export and each value lands in the right field, with a note of where it came from.
Names and places link themselves
People and places in the text are recognised and joined to their own records, so one name leads to every book it appears in.
The book of Mercurius Trismegistus on the Power and Wisdom of God: translated from Greek into Latin by Marsilio Ficino the Florentine: to Cosimo de’ Medici.
Marsilio FicinoPerson
FlorencePlace
Cosimo de’ MediciPerson
New books, from scans to drafts
Add scans and a record. Each book is read, translated and described on its own, and lands in your team’s queue ready to check.
The Adventures of the Unknown Philosopher
ScansText readTranslatedReady to check
The Rosicrucians. Their rites and mysteries
ScansText readTranslatedReady to check
The tarot of the Bohemians
ScansText readTranslatedReady to check
Read automatically, checked where it matters
Every page is transcribed and translated for you, even in difficult hands. Your team’s time goes to the few readings the system is unsure of, and nothing goes live until the right person approves it.
Handwriting read for you
This is Kurrent, the old German script. Lines read with high confidence are done; the one uncertain line is flagged for someone who reads the hand.
1
Zu dir meine Gott! Du Gott
99%To you, my God! You God
2
der Liebe! erhebet sich meine
98%of love! my soul rises.
3
Seele. Herr, ist dein Name,
Unsure, flaggedConfirmed by AnnaLord is your name,
4
dein Name ist Liebe. Sende
99%your name is Love. Send
5
Licht in meine Seele;
97%light into my soul;
Only the doubtful lines reach you
Across the whole library, the queue holds just the readings that need a person, sorted so the hardest come first.
Book of Hours, 1491 · f. 12rRead
Rosary of the Philosophers · p. 82 unsure
Elementa chemiae · p. 114Read
True Keys of Solomon · p. 31Hebrew word
Viridarium chymicum · p. 5Read
Gott ist die reinste Liebe · p. 751 unsure
True Keys of Solomon · p. 31Hebrew word
Rosary of the Philosophers · p. 82 unsure
Gott ist die reinste Liebe · p. 751 unsure
Approved before it goes live
A change can wait for a second pair of eyes. The approver sees both versions side by side and says yes.
English title · changed by Anna
Live nowElements of Chemistry
ProposedElements of Chemistry, with the Philosopher’s Stone
ApproveSend backApproved by Jo · live on the site
Every illustration, found and described
Plates are picked out of the pages, described and tagged automatically, so they can be searched by what they show. Your team edits any of it, and adds what only they know.
Descriptions and tags, written for you
Each plate keeps its place in the book and gets a record of its own. Change a word, add a tag, and search picks it up.
Description
An alchemical emblem: an owl wearing spectacles, flanked by two lit candles and two crossed torches.
Tags
Found on its page · full resolution · searchableEdit
Reference collections, built by your librarians
A list of books for an exhibition, a theme, a course or a donor, with suggestions from the library as you build it. The same list becomes a shelf, a feature or a chronology anywhere on the site.
One list, shown wherever you need it
Accept a suggestion and every shelf and feature built on the collection follows. A collection can stay private until it is ready.
In the collection
Elementa chemiaeBarchusen · 1720
Viridarium chymicumMaier · 1688
Manuductio ad coelum chemicumTollius · 1752
Suggested · also tagged alchemy
The Lives of the Adepts1814
Shelf · collection page
Feature · home page
From the collectionAlchemy in printWorking manuals and emblem books, 1688 to 1814
The right people, the right books
Every member of the library team has a role and a scope, from the head librarian who signs off to a volunteer working on one manuscript. And every collection has its own visibility, from fully public to named researchers only.
Roles for the library team
Cataloguers edit records, librarians check text, the head librarian approves. A volunteer can be given a single book and nothing else.
| Person | Role | Works on | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| JJo MarshApproves library changes | Head librarian | Whole library | Publish directly |
| AAnna BergReads Latin, German, Kurrent | Librarian | Whole library | Need approval |
| PPieter LaanCatalogue records | Cataloguer | Records · not text | Need approval |
| KKim NoorVolunteer | Transcriber | Book of Hours, 1491Book of Hours + Rosary | Need approval |
| MDr. M. VosVisiting researcher | Researcher | Restricted items · read only | None |
Who can see what
Each book or collection can be public, open to signed-in readers, staff only, or limited to named researchers. Restricted items stay out of search, components and exports for everyone else.
Book of Hours, 1491ManuscriptPublicReadersStaff
True Keys of SolomonFrench manuscript, 1750PublicReadersStaff
Holy Almodel of SolomonLatin manuscript, 18th c.PublicReadersNamed
Rosary of the PhilosophersManuscript, c. 1600PublicReadersStaffNamed: Dr. M. Vos and 2 others
Every action leaves a trace
Who opened a restricted book, who changed a record, who approved it. The activity log is there for your team, and for your auditors.
KKim Noor checked 12 linesBook of Hours, f. 14r · just nowFor review
MDr. M. Vos opened a restricted bookHoly Almodel of Solomon · 10:12Read
JJo Marsh approved a title changeElementa chemiae · 09:40Live
PPieter Laan edited a recordViridarium chymicum · yesterdayLive
AAnna Berg changed accessTrue Keys of Solomon: Staff only · MondayLogged
Every edit kept, everything yours
Each change is logged with who made it and when, and your team can restore an earlier version themselves. The whole library can be exported in open formats at any time.
Roll back yourselves, any time
Look back over a record’s history and restore an earlier version without asking us. The restore is logged too.
On the site
The Real History of the RosicruciansThe real history of the Rosicrucians, founded on their own manifestoes
JJo restored the catalogue versionjust nowLive
AAnna shortened the title3 SeptRestore
CCatalogue import2 AugRestore
Export whenever you like
Scans, records, transcriptions, translations and your team’s notes belong to you, in standards other systems already read.
IIIFImages, for any viewerReady
TEITranscriptions and translationsReady
MARC 21Records, as your catalogue reads themReady
Dublin CoreA record for every itemReady
PDF, EPUBBooks to read offlineReady