Medieval Women Artists and Modem Historians

A framework of image use among archaeologists, architects, art historians and artists

Women Artists in the Collection

Finding Visual Information: A Study of Image Resources Used by Archaeologists, Architects, Art Historians, and Artists

This article presents the findings of a recent study which identified the image resources that professional user groups acknowledged were useful to their work processes. The information behaviors relating to images of several professional user groups-archaeologists , architects, art historians, and artists-were examined in a qualitative research study conducted in 2008-2009. Presented here are ...

Informatics for Historians: Tools for Medieval Document XML Markup, and their Impact on the History-Sciences

This article is a revised and extended version of [VBG, 07]. We conjecture that the digitalization of historical text documents as a basis of data mining and information retrieval for the purpose of progress in the history sciences is urgently needed. We present a novel, specialist XML tool-suite supporting the working historian in the transcription of original medieval charters into a machine-...

Mental Rotation in Artists and Non-artists

This research was conducted to compare visuospatial skills in male and female artists and non-artists. Twenty artists (10 males and 10 females) and 20 non-artists (10 males and 10 females) were tested for accuracy and reaction time in a lateralized three-dimensional mental rotation task. Males had significantly fewer errors than females, which is consistent with previous research, but this main...