ONiT Explorer

This tool assembles more than 22,000 images the team of the project Ottoman Nature in Travelogues, 1501–1850: A Digital Analysis (ONiT) - https://onit.oeaw.ac.at/ - extracted from travelogues about the Ottoman Empire in English, French, German and Latin language that were printed between 1501 and 1850 and survived in the holdings of the Austrian National Library (ÖNB) in Vienna. The images have been scanned in the course of the Austrian Books Online project (https://www.onb.ac.at/digitale-angebote/austrian-books-online) – a public private partnership between the ÖNB and Google Books – as well as in-house at the ÖNB and by our project team. For the extraction we used the Illustration Detector tool by the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford. You can either search for text or similar images.

Please note that the tool was developed for research purposes and is fine-tuned for the retrieval of representations of 'nature' (i.e. flora, fauna, landscapes and maps). This concerns more than 8,700 of the images. Be aware that you are interacting with the raw model, which means we do not filter out biased or negative responses. ONiT Explorer is still under development, and may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information, or produce offensive or biased content.

Freely available

Formal type Online

Publisher Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

freely available

Access Type
Access link	https://labs.onb.ac.at/en/tool/onit-explorer/

If you have any questions about the database or licensing, please contact elibrary@dainst.de

Resource id

106358

Subjects

Biology, Biotechnology History

Database types

Collection of Non-Textual Materials

Keywords

images project Nature Travel report Ottoman Empire. Ottoman army Story

Notes

Not specified

Instructions

This tool uses artificial intelligence (AI) to search, analyse, and retrieve images. While we strive for accuracy and reliability, users should be aware of the tool's limitations and their responsibilities when using it.

Further information

Report time	1501 to 1850
Updating	Still updated

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