Kim Veltman Archive

For over 30 years, Professor Kim Veltman (1948–2020) was acknowledged as the world’s leading expert on perspective. He was also a leading scholar of Leonardo da Vinci, new media, and the history of the alphabet.

Kim studied the past in order to help shape the future conscientiously for the benefit of humanity. His work was grounded in the conviction that there are no truly isolated topics or unbreachable boundaries between things, people or organisations: everything is potentially connected. He therefore sought holistic and unifying world-views, emphasising links between cultures, religions, subjects, alphabets and languages.

This page presents only a selected subset of the full Kim Veltman Archive. The complete archive, containing more than 800 publications, is available through the Library of Perspective — Digital Edition.

Explore the Kim Veltman Archive

About Kim Veltman · Archive at a glance · Digital archive · Archive access · Academic theses · Books · Major works · Perspective papers · Vision statements · Reviews · Slide presentations · Wider publications · Archive status

Kim Veltman: Polymath

The Perspective Research Centre maintains the official archive of Professor Kim Veltman’s lifetime publications. This extraordinary knowledge bank contains 10 million words on perspective, Leonardo da Vinci, old and new media, and the history of the alphabet.

Kim’s contribution cuts across traditional subject boundaries in the arts and sciences. His work exemplifies the comprehensive approach of the generalist: studying subjects meticulously and expansively, and following causal chains wherever they lead.

Archive at a Glance

10 million words across several hundred individual documents.
More than 800 publications in the full archive, including 20 books, four major treatises, an unpublished 1,200-page treatise manuscript on Leonardo’s optics, 82 chapters in books, 24 papers in refereed journals, 84 articles, 16 reviews and 10 vision statements.
442 written documents listed in the archive for eventual free public access.
400 lectures and seminars developed in a variety of media formats.
Extensive records and design plans relating to Kim’s visionary System for Universal Multimedia Searching (SUMS).

Digital Kim Veltman Archive — UKS Collection

The full digital Kim Veltman Archive is available as a Collection within the PRC Library of Perspective, using the Universal Knowledge System (UKS).

The page you are reading provides an introduction to the Archive, its publication record and a selected range of documents and direct links. It presents only a subset of the complete digital Archive. The Veltman Archive Collection in the Library of Perspective contains the full body of digitised archive material for integrated searching, viewing and research.

To open the digital Archive, click the Library of Perspective button in the PRC sidebar. In the Library of Perspective, select the Veltman Archive Collection.

You can use the Veltman Archive on its own, or combine it with other Library Collections. The material can be refined by Record Type / Form, Subject and Topic / Project to create a defined Content Target. You can then use Library View to browse and open publications, or Library Search to search within the selected archive material.

Relevant publications and search matches can be opened in Context Windows, allowing several documents, pages or passages to be examined together through Multi-Context exploration.

In short: this page introduces and documents the Kim Veltman Archive; the Veltman Archive Collection in the Library of Perspective is the full digital research archive.

Archive Access

The PRC has built an archive of everything Kim wrote during his lifetime. The principal archive reference files are:

Kim Veltman publications: Library of Perspective [60 MB PDF].
Kim Veltman CV: Kim Veltman CV.pdf [9 MB PDF].

Kim Veltman Written Works

Kim published a huge volume of written work over his lifetime, amounting to 10 million words across several hundred individual documents. The archive lists 442 documents written by Kim that the PRC intends to make available for free download. Because of the scale of this task, it will take time to make everything public.

As detailed in his CV, Kim also developed 400 lectures and seminars in a variety of media formats. The PRC does not presently intend to publish all of these, although remarkable examples may be released as time allows, including a video lecture series on the alphabet and examples of PowerPoint presentations.

Academic Theses by Kim Veltman

Undergraduate Thesis

Perfection and Infinity (York) – Undergraduate_Thesis.pdf

Ph.D. Thesis

Renaissance Optics and Perspective.pdf [1975 – PhD London, 442 pages]

Books by Kim Veltman

Note: The Studies on Leonardo da Vinci books will be published here as PDF documents. Volume 1 will be a scan of the published book; Volumes 2 and 3 will initially be scans of manuscripts prior to publication.

Major Treatises and Reference Works

Kim Veltman produced three major bodies of work of this kind, as follows:

The Encyclopedia of Leonardo da Vinci

Volume 1: Introduction: The Works of Leonardo da Vinci
Volume 2: Visualisation and Perspective
Volume 3: Leonardo da Vinci and the Roots of Scientific Visualisation
Volume 4: Leonardo’s Method
Volume 5: Linear Perspective and Visual Dimensions of Science and Art
Volume 6: Continuity and Discovery in Optics and Astronomy
Volume 7: Vision and Astronomy
Volume 8: Conclusions
Volume 9: Appendix

Note: These volumes represent an amalgamation of everything Kim Veltman wrote on Leonardo da Vinci. They have not yet been published and amount to approximately 3,000 pages.

The Encyclopedia of Perspective

Note: The above volumes can be downloaded on this site and amount to approximately 2,500 pages (2020).

Alphabets of Life

Alphabets of Life – Scholar’s Edition (2014, approx. 3,000 pages)

Noteworthy Articles and Papers on Perspective

Below is the PRC’s selected list of articles and papers by Professor Kim Veltman on perspective.

Vision Statements

“Perspective Institute. Centre for Changing Relations Between Man, Representation and the Measured World”, 1975.
“Reality, Knowledge and Excellence”, 1981.
“A Proposal Concerning the Reorganization of Knowledge”, 1981.
Proposals Concerning a Chair in Visual History, January 1981.
“The McLuhan Global Village Demo Room: A New Kind Of Showcase,” 1992.
“National Networked Centre for Education and Training,” 1992.
“Marshall McLuhan Information Technology Research Centre,” 1993.
SUMMA, 1995.
Series: Roadmaps for a New Europe.
Open SUMS, Maastricht, 2013.

Reviews

Reviews written by Kim Veltman on perspective books:

Donatella Failla, ed., Lacche Giapponesi nel Museo Chiossone: manuale di analisi e descrizione catalografica, Genoa: Sagep Editrice, 1993. (Regione Liguria. Ufficio Musei e Beni Culturali), Knowledge Organization (formerly International Classification), Frankfurt, vol. 21, no. 2, 1994, pp.
Michael Giesecke, Der Buchdruck in der frhen Neuzeit. Eine historische Fallstudie ber die Durchsetzung neuer Informations – und Kommunikationstechnologien, (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991), McLuhan Studies, Toronto, vol. 2, (1992).
Martin Kemp, The Science of Art, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), Kunstchronik, Munich, Jg. 44, Heft 5, (May 1991), pp.285-290.
Martin Kemp, Leonardo da Vinci. [PDF link 1]
Christoph Meinel, ed., Die Alchemie in der europischen Kultur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz 1986) Wolfenb¸ttler Forschungen, Band 32, Annals of Science, London, Vol. 45, no. 3, (May 1988), pp.324-325.
Michael Kubovy, The Psychology of perspective and Renaissance art, (Cambridge, 1986), Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 24, (1988), pp. 79-80.
Rob Ruurs, Saenredam, The Art of Perspective, (Amsterdam, Benjamins l987) (Oculi, Studies in the Art of the Low Countries, Vol l), Simiolus, Amsterdam, Vol. 17, (1988), pp. 275-276.
Nicholas Jardine, The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science, (Cambridge, 1984) Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Ottawa, Vol. 80, No. 2, (April 1986), pp. 118-120.
Leonardo da Vinci – Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library Windsor Castle, Kenneth D. Keele ed., (New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984) Annals of Science, London, Vol. 42, No.4, (July 1985), pp. 189-190.
Michael Heidelberger, Sigrun Thiessen, Natur und Erfahrung, (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1981), Annals of Science, London, Vol. 39, No. 3, (July 1985), pp.441.
Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing, (Chicago, 1983), Kunstchronik, Munich, Bd. 37 (7), (1984), pp. 262-267
Lise Bek, Towards Paradise on Earth: Modern Space Conception in Architecture, (Odense University Press, 1980), Annals of Science, London, Vol. 39, No. 3, (1982), pp. 320-322.
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Perspective, Optics and Delft Artists Around 1650, New York, 1977, pp. 81-82.
S. Edgerton Jr., The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective, (New York, 1975), The Art Bulletin, New York, Vol. 59, No. 2, (July 1977), pp. 281-282.
D. C. Lindberg, Theories of Vision from Alkindi to Kepler, (Chicago, 1976), Annals of Science, London, Vol. 34, No. 4, (July 1977), pp. 439-441.

Slide Presentations on Perspective

The following are PDF copies of PowerPoint slide presentations given by Kim Veltman:

To help interpret what Kim was seeking to convey in these presentations, readers should consult publications with similar titles in the lists of books and articles above. These files are a small sample of the more than 400 slide presentations held by the PRC in the Kim Veltman Archive; further presentations may be made available as time allows.

The archive also contains a couple of major video lecture series by Kim and several audio talks. These may also be published as time allows.

Kim wrote on a wide range of subjects including computers, creativity, culture, education, new media and knowledge organisation. The PRC intends to provide subject-categorised lists of his publications as time allows.

Wider Publication Record

The following bibliographic sections preserve the wider publication record presented in the archive.

Sections in Books

“Perspective from Antiquity to the Present,” Eva London, July 2017. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London: BCS, pp. 33-35.
“Digital Libraries and Search Engines: A Progress Report,”11th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & 16th COLLNET Meeting, Delhi, India, 26-28 November, 2015.
Bridges, Languages and Cultures,” GENÇLİK VE KÜLTÜREL MİRASIMIZ, International Congress on Youth and Culture, Sansun, Turkey, 15-18 May, 2014, pp. 773-788, Ceylan Ofset , Samsun, 2014.
“Towards a Meaningful Web of Knowledge”, Handbook. Computer Engineering and Innovations in Education for Virtual Learning Environments, Intelligent Systems and Communicability, Blue Herons Editions, 2012, pp. 1-32.
“Learning Habits versus Habits for Knowledge”: New Horizons in Creative Open Software, Multimedia, Human Factors and Software Engineering, Bergamo: Blue Herons, 2012, pp. 1-11.
“Alphabets, Myths and Tourism,” First International Workshop. Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2010), Brescello, 7-9 September 2010, Bergamo: Blue Herons, 2010, pp. 1-6.
“Mediae novea fontesque novae. De Luna, Mithra, et Proserpina Quodlibetica,” Servizi e Contenuti Digitali. Gli Elementi Base della Societa della Conoscenza, Napoli 26 Giugnio 2006, Napoli: Università degli studi di Napoli, a cura di R. Valenti, Pozzuoli: Naus Editoria, 2010, pp. 15-25.
“Perspective, Space, Time, Line and Number,” Convegno Internazionale di Studi “Urbino e la prospettiva”, Urbino, 9-11 October 2006, Foligno: Cartei e Biachi, 2009, pp. 279-289.
“Links to Truth and Memory in a Digital Age”: Library and Information science in digital age: Essays in honour of Prof M P Satija”, ed by Jagtar Singh, Indervir Malhan and Trishanjit Kaur, New Delhi: Ess Publications, 2009, Vol. 1, pp. 403- 418.
“Four Ways that Digital Communications are Transforming Scholarship. Sources, Names, Claims and Scope”, Perspectives in Knowledge Management. Ed. Prof. I V Malhan and Shivarama Rao, Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow Press, 2008, pp. 129-154.
“Memory Institutions in a Networked World,” Memory in Digits. Communication of Memory in Archives, Museums and Libraries: The Interaction of Science, Policy and Practice, International Conference, 4-5 October, 2007, Vilnius: Vilnius universiteto leidiykla, pp. 17-33.
“Linee, nodi e draghi: l’astronomia come chiave per una mitologia interculturale”, La Mente,il corpo, e i loro enigmi. Saggi di Filosofia, Rome: Stamen, 2007, pp. 145- 170.
“Scenari di frontiera del Digitale” and “Astronomy, Aesculapius, and Long Term Preservation,” Internazionale sul tema”, Conservare il digitale. Un confronto internazionale, Asolo, 29 September 2006 Asolo: Tipografia Battagin, 2007, pp. 11-13, 175-180.
“The New Book of Nature“, eARCOM 07. Sistemi informativi per l’Architettura Convegno Internazionale, Con il Patrocinio di UNESCO. Ministero dei Beni Culturali, CIPA, Regione Marche, Ancona-Portonovo Hotel La Fonte, 17-18-19 Maggio 2007, Ancona: Alinea Editrice, 2007, pp. 659-669.
“Culture, Creativity and the Internet”, Prospective de l’Internet – Foresight of the Internet: Digital networks as structuring tools for the Knowledge Regions, Actes du colloque, Marie-Anne Delahaut. Ed. Préface de Viviane Reding, Postface de Markus Kummer, Namur: Institut Destrée, 2005, pp. 365-394. A version also given as a keynote at the conference: Continuity and Change, Die Schmiede, Hallein, 11 June 2005.
“Cultural and Historical Meta-data: MEMECS (Metadonnées et Mémoire Collective Systématique),” WWW9, Amsterdam, 2000, in: Digital Heritage. Cultural Heritage and Information Communication Technology in conjunction with 9th International Conference on WWW, Milan: Deleyva Editore, 2004, pp. 137-150. Also published electronically as: “Cultural and Historical Metadata, MEMECS (Metadonnées et Mémoire Collective Systématique),” Cultivate Interactive, Issue 1, July 2000.
“Accès dynamique à la connaissance,” Europe, Diversité culturelle, et mondialisations, (Conference: Université de la Mondialisation, Paris, Parc de la Villette, 4 June 2003), Paris: Harmattan, 2005, pp. 75-80.
“Retos para las applicaciones de TIC/TCU en el Patrimonio Cultural,” Cartagena: Ayuntiamento. Concejaliá de Cultura 3000 Informaticá, 2005, pp. 13-51.
Reprint in French: “Les défis aux applications des technologies de l’information et de la Communication dans le patrimoine pour les prochaines décennies.”
“Access, Claims and Quality on the Internet”, Keynote at: Open Culture, Accessing and Sharing Knowledge. Scholarly Production in the Digital Age, Università di Milano, Milan , 27-29 June 2005, pp. 7.
“Mondi reali e mondi virtuali, sistemi SUMS e G7” and “La prospettiva alle origini della realtà virtuale,” Publication of Lecture Series, Reggio Calabria, 1998, Published in: Architettura &, ed. Marcello Sestito, Reggio Calabria: Jason Editrice, 2004, pp.85-98.
“La ricostruzione storica delle città attraverso i metodi computerizzati,” Keynote published in: Congresso Internazionale di Studi in onore di Eugenio Battisti. Università degli Studi “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria, 22-23-24 maggio 2001, Reggio Calabria, 2004).
“Kultur und Wissen im digitaler Zeitalter,” Das Gesicht der Welt. Medien in der digitalen Kultur, Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2004, pp. 13-29.
“Challenges for ICT/UCT Applications in Cultural Heritage,” Seville: Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Historico, 2004.
“Edutainment, Technotainment e cultura,” Cultura in Gioco. Le nuove frontiere di musei, didattica e industria culturale nell’era dell’interattività, Florence: Giunti, 2004, pp. 165-205.
“E-Culture, Art History and Museum Studies,” Changing the way research is done. The user perspective on e-infrastructure. Brussels: European Commission, December 2003, pp. 66-67. Lecture introducing the EU’s Memorandum of Understanding on Multimedia Access to Digital Culture.
“Challenges and Potentials for Sharing between the Network of Excellence For Research and Education on Digital Silk Roads (NERE/DSR) and E-Culture Net ” Second UNESCO Digital Silk Roads Conference Nara 10 12 December 2003 Net, Second UNESCO Digital Silk Roads Conference, Nara, 10-12 December 2003, Tokyo: NII, 2004, pp. 37-48.
“Towards New Cultural Histories in a Networked World,” EVA Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 1-5 December 2003, Moscow: Centre PIC, 2003, pp. 66-75. Also a Russian version.
“Paradoxes of Perspective: Ideal and Real Cities,” Convegno internazionale. Imago urbis. Images des Villes. Towns Images. Commission Internationale pour l’Histoire des Villes,” Bologna, 2002, Roma: Viella Libreria Editrice, 2003, pp. 89- 100.
“E-Culture Net: European Network of Centres of Excellence for Research and Education in Digital Culture,” EVA Moscow, Moscow: Centre PIC of Ministry of Culture of Russia, December 2002, pp. 24-28.
“European Networks of Excellence and Japanese/UNESCO Silk Roads,” Tokyo Symposium for Digital Silk Roads, UNESCO, National Institute of Informatics, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, 11-13 December, 2001, Tokyo: National Institute for Informatics, 2002. pp. 135-145.
“Trends and perspective: the new technologies,” European Museum Forum, Palazzo Reale di Pisa, 2001, Quaderni. Cultura Europea e Musei, Pontedera: Fondazione Piaggio, Nuova Serie, no. 1, 2002, pp. 144-157. With an Italian translation: “Tendenze e prospettive: le nuove tecnologie.”
“Challenges for a Semantic Web,” Semantic Web Workshop 2002. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Semantic Web 2002 (at the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference), Hawaii, May 7, 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 16-22.
European Networks of Excellence and Global Digital Culture,” EVA-Beijing, Abstracts, Tsinghua University, Beijing, April 2002, pp. 72-75.
“Syntactic and Semantic Interoperability, New Approaches to Knowledge and the Semantic Web,” New Review of Information Networking, Cambridge: Taylor Graham, Volume 7, 2001, pp. 159-183.
“A (European) Network of Centres of Excellence for Augmented Digital Culture,” CULTH2: Die Zukunft des Digitalen Kulturellen Erbes, The Future of Digitized Cultural Heritage, Vienna: MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2002, pp. 43-47.
“Developments and Challenges in Digital Culture,” Proceedings of the Moscow EVA Conference, Moscow: Russian Ministry of Culture, 2001, pp. 33-39. Separate publication of same in Russian: EVA 2001 Moskva, pp. 1-4-1 to 1-4-4.
“La crescita nel settore dei musei virtuali,” Museo Contro Museo. Le strategie, gli strumenti, i resultati, [Cività Annual Report 2001], Florence: Giunti, 2001, pp. 260- 296.
“Les répercussions des nouveaux médias,” L’avenir des musées,” Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Musée du Louvre, 2001, pp. 383-395.
“Abstract: Città ideale e città reale: I paradossi della prospettiva,” Imago urbis. L’immagine della città nella storia d’Italia, Bologna, 5 September 2001, Bologna: Università di Bologna, pp. 20-21, (+CD ROM).
“Abstract: The Need for a Cultural Grid,” Nederlands ICT-Kenniscongres <2001>, 6 en 7 September 2001, Nederlands Congres Centrum, Den Haag, p. 39.
“Scientific Visualization and Virtual Worlds, Augmented and Mixed Reality”, International Conference on Augmented Virtual Environments and Three- Dimensional Imaging (EUROIMAGE ICAV3D 2001, Mykonos, 2001 Thessaloniki: Publishing ZITI, p. 252.
“History of Art About and By Means of Computers,” ARCO 2001 Conference, Arco Noticias 20, Madrid, 2001, pp. 56-61
“New Media and Transformations in Knowledge,” based on an opening keynote: “Metadata und die Transformation des Wissens,” Euphorie Digital? Aspekte der Wissensvermittlung in Kunst, Kultur und Technologie, Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum, Paderborn, September 1998, Paderborn: Rheinisches Archiv und Museumsberatung und Heinz Nixdorf Museum, 2001, pp. 35-62.
“Museum im Internet- eine Neue Bildungschance Neue Herausforderungen an die Museen,” ICOM: Internationales Symposium Lindau, Das Museum als Global Village, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001, pp. 63-75.
“A Proposal Concerning the Reorganization of Knowledge,” Information: Management, Sources and Other Studies: Essays in honour of Professor K. Navlani, ed. Ashu Shokeen, I. V. Malhan, T. D. Tilwani, M. P. Satija, New Delhi: Ess Ess Publications, 2001, vol. II, pp. 12-35.
“The New Sphere of Knowledge, A Proposal for a Monastery of the 21st Century, d’Land e-culture, Luxembourg, 47 Jahrgang, 8 September 2000, p. 7. Originally published on the Internet in 1997.
“Mesure, quantification et science”, L’époque de la Renaissance. Tome IV Crises et essors nouveaux, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000, pp. 401-415.
“European Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Cultural Heritage and ICT,”EVA ’99 Moscow, Proceedings. New Information Technologies in the Cultural Area in the New Millennium, Moscow: Centre PIC, 1999, pp. 10~3~1-3.
“Conceptual Navigation in Multimedia Knowledge Spaces,” TKE-1999, 5th International Congress and Workshops on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering, Vienna: TermNet, 1999, pp. 1-27.
“Digital Reference Rooms: Access to Historical and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge,” INET ’99 Conference, San Jose, 1999, 22 pp. (CD-ROM and Internet).
“Towards a Global Vision of Meta-data: A Digital Reference Room,”Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference. Cultural Heritage Networks Hypermedia, Milan: Politecnico di Milano, 1999, pp. 199-209.
“World Access to Cultural Heritage: An Integrating Strategy”, Acts of Congress: Beni Culturali. Reti Multimedialità, Milan: Politecnico di Milano, 1999, pp. 69-80.
“Frontiers in Conceptual Navigation,” Herausforderungen an die Wissensorganisation: Viualisierung, multimediale Dokumente, Internetstrukturen, 5. Tagung der Deutschen Sektion der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Wissensoganisation, Berlin, October 1997, Hrsg. H. Czap, H. P. Ohly, S. Pribbenow, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 1998, pp. 129-139. The proceedings contain an abstract which appears in its full form in Knowledge Organization, vol. 24, no. 4, 1997, pp. 225-245.
“Computers and the Importance of Culture,” Informatik Forum, Vienna, Bd. 12, Nr. 2, August 1998, pp. 76-82. Based on a lecture at the 28th Annual Conference: International Institute of Communications, October 1997, in Sydney.
“New Roles for Education through the Internet”, INET ’97 Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 1997.
“What Must be Done to realise the Scenarios?”, Multimedia Access to Europe’s Cultural Heritage. Bridging the Gap between Museums and Industry, Scenarios for Market Development, Brussels: ACTS Central Office, 1997, pp. 67-77.
“Piero della Francesca and the Two Methods of Renaissance Perspective”, Convegno internazionale: Piero della Francesca 500 anni, 1492-1992, Urbino, Arezzo, Sansepolcro, October 1992, 1996, pp. 407-419.
“Why Computers are Transforming the Meaning of Education,” ED-Media and ED- Telecomm Conference, Calgary, June 1997, ed. Tomasz Müldner, Thomas C. Reeves, Charlottesville: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 1997, vol. II, pp. 1058-1076.
“Panel: Prometheus Unbound Again: More Questions than Answers”, Citizens of the Electronic Village, Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs, 1996 Conference Proceedings, 1996, pp. 23-28.
“Elektronische Medien, Die Wiedergeburt der Perspektive und die Fragmentierung der Perspektive”: Illusion und Simulation, ed. Stefan Iglhaut, Florian Rötzer, Elisabeth Schweeger, Munich: Cantz Verlag, 1995, pp. 26-48.
“Electronic Media, The Rebirth of Perspective and the Fragmentation of Illusion”: Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation, ed. Timothy Druckrey, New York: Aperture, 1996, pp. 208-227.
“New Media and Copyright from an International Viewpoint”, Protecting and Exploiting Copyright in Multimedia, New Problems…New Solutions, Toronto: The Canadian Institute, 1995, section II, pp. 1-10.
“A Databank on Perspective: The Concept of Knowledge Packages”, Metodologia della ricerca: orientamenti attuali. Congresso internazionale in onore di Eugenio Battisti, Milan, 1991, Arte Lombarda, Milan, 1994, vol. 106-107, n. 3-4, parte secunda, pp. 166-170.
“Knowledge package construction and conceptual navigation using a System for Universal Media Searching, Writers at work: professional writing in the computerized environment, ed. Thea van der Geest, Mike Sharples, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1996, pp. 207-215. Publication linked with: Writing conferences, European Association for research on learning and instruction. Special interest group writing and 7th European conference on writing and computers, Utrecht, October 19-21, 21, 1994, Abstracts, Utrecht, p. 181.
“How the Information Highway can Transform Education. Reflections on McLuhan’s Vision”, Multicomm ‘94, Program and Proceedings, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Continuing Studies, 1994, pp. 221-247.
“New Media and New Knowledge”, Proceedings of the Third Canadian Conference on Foundations and Applications of General Science Theory: Universal Knowledge Tools and their Applications, Ryerson, 5-8 June 1993, Toronto: Ryerson Polytechnic University, 1993, pp. 347-358.
“The Electronic Highway and Education: New Doors to keep Open”, Learntec 93, Europäischer Kongress für Bildungstechnologie und betriebliche Bildung, Tagungsband, ed. Uwe Beck, Winfried Sommer, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1993, pp. 423-434.
“Percezione, prospettiva e rappresentazione nell’America Settentrionale”: Specchi americani. La filosofia europea nel nuovo mondo, ed. Caterina Marrone, G. Coccoli, G. Santese , F. Ratto, Rome: Castelvecchi, 1994, pp. 287-345. (Contatti 6, III convegno di studi filosofici di San Sepolcro).
“Computers and the Transformation of Knowledge”, The Challenge of Lifelong Learning in an Era of Global Change, Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs, 1993 Conference Proceedings, Toronto, pp. 23-25.
“Computers in Renaissance Perspective,” Written for Annual Leonardo Meeting, Brescia 1991 Published as Appendix to: Leonardo’s Method, Brescia: Centro Ricerche Leonardiane, 1993.
“Developments in Perspective”, Visual Mathematics, ed. Michele Emmer, Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1993, pp. 199-205.
“Narrative, Perspective and the Orders of the Church”, I Meeting Siena-Toronto, Atti, [Acts of Meeting in celebration of the 750th anniversary of the University of Siena, 1991, Siena], ed. S. Forconi, Siena: Edizioni Alsaba, 1993, pp. 123-162.
“Leonardo da Vinci: Studies of the Human Body and Principles of Anatomy”, Gepeinigt, begehrt, vergessen. Symbolik und Sozialbezug des Körpers im späten Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit, ed. Klaus Schreiner, Bad Homburg: Werner Reimers Stiftung, (1992), pp. 287-308.
“Can Museum Computer Networks Change Our Views of Knowledge?”, Museums and Information. New Technological Horizons. Proceedings, Ottawa: Canadian Heritage Information Network, (1992), pp. 101- 108.
“Databanks in Education”, The 12th E.C.O.O. and the 8th I.C.T.E. Joint Conference, Toronto, (May 1991), pp.412-418.
“Knowledge Packages”, The 12th E.C.O.O. and the 8th I.C.T.E. Joint Conference, Toronto, (May 1991), pp.757-759.
“Leonardo da Vinci: Die Gesetze des Sehens und der Natur: Methode und Struktur in Leonardos Werk”, Geschichte und Gesetz. Europäisches Forum Alpbach, 1989, Hrsg. Otto Molden, Vienna: Ostereichisches College, (1990), pp. 566-572.
“A New Classification for Art,” Die Klassifikation und ihr Umfeld. Proceedings 10. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Klassification eV, eds. P. O. Degens et al., (Frankfurt: Indeks Verlag, 1986), pp.77-84, (Studien sur Klassifikation, Bd. 17).
“Leonardo and the Camera Obscura,” Studi Vinciani in memoria de Nando de Toni, (Brescia: Ateneo di scienze lettere et arti. Centro ricerche Leonardiane, 1986), pp. 81-92
“Groteske Köpfe nach Leonardo da Vinci,” Mittel und Motive der Karikatur in fünf Jahrhunderten. Bild als Waffe, eds. G. Langemeyer, G. Unverfehrt, H. Guratzsch und C. Stölzl. (München: Prestel-Verlag, 1985), pp.37-38.
“Multidimensional Bibliography and Classification, Eröffnungsvortrag”: Anwendungen in der Klassifikation. Proceedings 8 Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Klassifikation eV, ed. Rolf G. Hensler (Teil I), (Hof Geismar, 1984), (Frankfurt: Indeks Verlag, 1984), pp.57-75. (Studien zur Klassifikation, Bd. 14 SK 14)
“Thoughts on the Reorganization of Knowledge”, Automatisierung in der Klassifikation eV, ed. Ingetraut Dahlberg (Teil I), Königswinter/Rhein, 5.-8. (April 1983), (Frankfurt: Indeks Verlag, 1983), pp.141-150. (Studien zur Klassifikation, Bd. 13, SK 13).
“Visualization and Perspective. Visualizzazione e prospettiva,” Leonardo e l’eta della ragione, eds. Enrico Bellone e Paolo Rossi, (Scientia, Milan, 1982), pp.185- 210 (English), pp. 211-224 (Italian).
“Panofsky’s Perspective: a Half Century Later,” Atti del convegno internazionale di studi: la prospettiva rinascimentale, Milan 1977, ed. Marisa Dalai-Emiliani (Florence: Centro Di, 1980), pp.565-584.
“Ptolemy and the Origins of Linear Perspective,” Atti del convegno internazionale di studi: la prospettiva rinascimentale, Milan 1977, ed. Marisa Dalai-Emiliani (Florence: Centro Di, 1980), pp.403-407.

Articles in Refereed Journals

”Cultural Computing”, Entertainment Computing, Elsevier, Amsterdam, September 2011 (Special Issue Cultural Computing).
“The Semantic Web: past and future”, World Digital Libraries, New Delhi, June 2009, 2(1): pp. 33–49.
“Leonardo da Vinci: A Review”, Leonardo, San Francisco, Volume 41, Issue 4, August 2008, pp. 381-388.
“Access Claims and Quality on the Internet: Future Challenges”, Progress in Informatics, Tokyo, no. 2, November 2005, pp. 17-40.
“Europe’s Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age”, Bolletino telematico di filosofia politica. On-line journal of political philosophy, Pisa, November 2005.
“Learning and Communication with Old and New Media,”UNESCO Conference: Das Verbindende der Kulturen. SEKTION: Integrales, lebendiges, gemeinsames Lernen, Orientierungs- und Sinnfragen, Mehrsprachigkeit und Kulturnavigation,“ as part of section 8.3: Dialog und Lernen, ed. Heiner Benking (Berlin), Vienna, December 2003. Published in: TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. No. 15, September 2005.
“Challenges for the Semantic Web and Information Systems from Culture”: SIGSEMIS Newsletter: Special Theme: Semantic Web Challenges for Information Systems, Vol. 1, Number 1, April 2004, pp. 36-40.
“Towards a Semantic Web for Culture,” JoDI (Journal of Digital Information), Volume 4, Issue 4, Article No. 255, 2004-03-15. Special issue on New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems.
“Challenges for multimedia access to cultural heritage”, Russian Digital Libraries Journal , Vol. 4, No 1, 2001.
“Frontiers in Conceptual Navigation,” Knowledge Organization, Würzburg, vol. 24, 1998, n. 4, pp. 225-245.
“Frontiers in Electronic Media”, Interactions Journal of the ACM, New Yrk, July- August 1997, pp. 32-64
“A Front-end for Multi-valent, Multi-cultural Searching”, ALT News 04, Applied Learning Technologies in Europe, (February 1994), pp. 8-9, 14.
“Past Imprecision for Future Standards: Computers and New Roads to Knowledge”, Computers and the History of Art, London, vol. 4.1, (1993), pp. 17-32.
Guest Editor of the first issue of Knowledge Organization (formerly International Classification), including an editorial “Computers and the Visual Arts” and an article “Electronic Media and Visual Knowledge”, Frankfurt, vol. 20, no. 1, (1993), pp. 2-3, 47- 53.
“McLuhan, Museums and Education”, Museums and Technology: special issue of The Muse, Ottawa, vol. IX, no. 2, (Summer-Fall, 1991), pp.78-85.
“Computers and a new Philosophy of Knowledge”, International Classification, Frankfurt, vol. 18, (1991), pp. 2-12.
“In Memoriam – Dr. Kenneth D. Keele, M.D., F.R.C.P,” Raccolta Vinciana, Milan, Vol. 23, (1989), pp. 407-411. Also in: Newsletter for Leonardisti, Bowling Green, Vol. 5, No. 3, (1987) pp. 5-6.
“Literature on Perspective. 1971-1983,” Marburger Jahrbuch, Marburg, Vol. 21, (1986), pp.135-207.
“Perspective, Anamorphosis and Vision,” Marburger Jahrbuch, Marburg, Vol. 21, (1986), pp.93-117.
“Gli studi di Leonardo da Vinci sull’ottica,” L’almanacco Italiano, Florence, Vol. LXXX, (1980), pp.134-144.Reprinted as: “Gli studi di Leonardo da Vinci sull’ottica,” Attualita Leonardiane, Fondazione Leonardo da Vinci, (1980), pp.18-28.
“Das Problem der Perspektive im. 15. Jahrhundert: Grenzfragen zwischen Naturwissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte”, Veröffentlichungen des Forschungsinstituts des Deutschen Museums für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, Munich, Reihe A, Nr. 227, (1980), pp. 39-40.
“Military Surveying and Topography: The Practical Dimension of Renaissance Linear Perspective,” Revista da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Vol. XXVII, (1979), pp. 263-279. Reprinted as a separate booklet: Military Surveying and Topography: The Practical Dimension of Renaissance Linear Perspective, Lisboa: Junta de Investigacoes Cientificas de Ultramar (Publicacoes do Centro de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga, seccao de Coimbra, serie separatas, vol CXXIX).
“Leonardo da Vinci’s Perspective and Optics. Elements of a Scientific World View,” Wolfenbütteler Renaissance Mitteilungen, Wolfenbüttel, Jg. III, Heft 1, (April 1979), pp. 81-82.
“Kongress-Bericht: La prospettiva rinascimentale,” Wolfenbütteler Renaissance Mitteilungen, Wolfenbüttel, Jg. I, Heft 3, (1977) p. 93.

Articles Online (Previously Published) or on CD-ROM

“Opening Keynote: The Universe and the Multiverse: From Matching to Cross- Matching,” Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2017).
Keynote: Means of Certain Knowledge, Levels of Knowledge and Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2016). Turin, 7-9 September, 2016, pp. 1-75. ISBN 978.88.96.471.58.6: DOI 10.978.8896471/586.
Keynote, Christianity and the Alphabet, Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2015). Strategies for a Creative Future with Computer Science, Quality Design and Communicability, Ravenna, September 22 – 24, 2015, pp. 1-40.
Keynote: “A New History of Media, Scales and Disciplines”, Strategies for a Creative Future with Computer Science, Quality Design and Communicability,San Marino, September 15-16, 2014.
Keynote: Historical Interfaces for Cultures. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2013): Strategies for a Creative Future with Computer Science, Quality Design and Communicability, Rome, September 26 – 27, 2013.
Sources of an Alphabet of Faith – A Monastery of the Future, Vienna, May 2013.
Keynote: Beyond an Internet of Things,” Third International Workshop on Human- Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2012): Strategies for a Creative Future with Computer Science, Quality Design and Communicability, Venice, Church of San Leonardo, 27 September, 2012.
Dreaming, Seeing, Feeling, Thinking, Saying, Doing. 2012, Unpublished.
“Alphabets, Elements and Cosmologies,” Mirandola, 2009.
“New Technologies in the Communication of Cultural Heritage, Recupero di Emergenze Storicho-Artistiche e Effetti Positivi di marketing Territoriale, Albenga, 9- 10 May, 2008.
“Trends towards Networked Culture and MEDICI”, Tenth Anniversary of MEDICI, Milan 2008.
“Cultivation, Culture, Meditation and Eternal Youth”, University of Naples, 2008.
“Global Villages, Portable Internet, and Two-Way Communication: Revolutions McLuhan Could not Foresee,” 10th EVA Moscow, 3 – 7 December, 2007.
“The Lion and the Unicorn,” Convegno internazionale: Il Castello Svelato, Direzione Regionale per i Beni culturali e paessaggistici della Campania e Istituto di Cibernetica E.Caianiello of C.N.R., Castel del Ovo, Naples, 28 September -2 October, 2006, Naples, 2007. Unpublished.
“Virtual Reconstructions, Knowledge Organization and Creativity”, Renascimento e Baroco. Nascimento do Homem Moderno?, Porto Alegre, August 2007.
“From Recorded World to Recording Worlds,” “Framework for Long-term Digital Preservation from Political and Scientific Viewpoints: Rahmenbedingungen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung aus politischer und wissenschaftlicher Sicht, “ Digitale Langzeitarchivierung. Strategien und Praxis europäischer Kooperation, Deutschen Nationalbibliothek, anlässlich der EU-Ratspräsidentschaft Deutschlands, 20-21. April 2007, Frankfurt: National Bibliothek, 2007.
Co-authored with Vasily Churanov, Alexander Churanov: “Words, Authority Files and Relations: The Vision of Multi-level Omni-Links,” EVA Moscow, Moscow, 2006.
“The First and Future Webs”, First International Workshop on Information Science, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, 4-6 December, 2006, Brasilia.
Keynote: “The World Tree, Alpha and Omega: Towards a New Model for World Culture,” Eva Moscow 2005, Moscow, December 2005.
“Diversity or Sameness? Reflections on Differences between Europe and the United States”, Maastricht, January, 2005. Unpublished but included as Appendix 2 in American Visions.
“Virtual Reality in Europe.” Written for: Laval, General Co-Chair, 1st Forum on the Promotion of European and Japanese Culture and Traditions in Cyber- Societies and Virtual Reality, April 18th-19th 2005, Laval, France.
Stories of the Sky: Astronomy, Myth, Religion and World Cultures. Initial Draft, 2005.
Co-authored with Alexander Churanov, Vasily Churanov, “New Media, New Models of Culture and E-Culture Net”, Eva Moscow 2005, Moscow, November 2005.
“Heavenly and Earthly Perspective: Piero della Francesca and the World Egg,” Conferenza su “Urbino e la prospettiva”, Urbino, 27 October 2005, Urbino, 2006. Unpublished.
“Challenges to Digital Culture”, Managing Heritage Collections II: Continuity and Change, An International Conference Organised by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and MINERVA Plus, Tallinn, May 2005, Tallinn: Ministry of Culture.
“International Trends in Cultural Repositories,” EVA Moscow 2004, Moscow, 29 November 2004.
New Combinations of Lectures, Books and Databases,” co-authored with Alexander Churanov, Vasily Churanov, Andrey Kotov, EVA Moscow 2004, Moscow, 29 November- 3 December 2004.
“New Ways of Scholarly Work in a Networked World,” Image, Text, Sound and Technology: A strategic research support program, Calgary: University of Calgary. 2004.
“Potentials of New Media for Education,” ISA News 2004.
“Infrastructures for Ways of Knowing in E-Europe”. European Commission. Directorate F. Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. Applications. FP7 Exploratory Workshop. Workshop 3. Knowledge Infrastructures for Researchers.
“Report on EVA Moscow 2003”.
“E-Culture Net Thematic Network (2002-2003),”Published in Digicult, London, August 2003.
“Europe’s Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age,” Closing Plenary: Digital Resources in the Humanities (DRH) Conference, 2003, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham Campus, September 2003.
“American Visions of the Internet: A Crisis of Trust”, July 2003-2005. Cf.
From Substance to Function and Relations in a Semantic Web, Maastricht, 2003. Unpublished. Parts further developed in Towards a Semantic Web for Culture, 2004.
“The Need for a Grid for Culture,” TERENA Networking Conference 2003 and CARNet Users Conference 2003, User Opportunities/ Network Challenges, 19 May 2003, Zagreb: TERENA, 2003 (in press).
“Historical Heritage and Future Creativity,” First International Workshop on ICTs, Arts and Cultural Heritage with Special Emphasis on Applications, Local Development and Local Learning, 5 May 2003, San Sebastian, 2003.
“Internet Domain Names and Indexing,” Ideas developed in Le nommage et indexage 2002, Unpublished.
“Standard and Variant Names and Classifications: Cross-Cultural Challenges for Europe in a Global Context,” European Association of Directory and Database Publishers (EADP), Rey Juan Carlos Hotel, 19 September, 2002, Barcelona, 2002.
“Frontiers in Digital Interpretation,” Unpublished Keynote: Frontiers in Digital Interpretation,” Digital Interpretation: To See the Unseen History, Falun, 7-9 April 2002.
“Challenges of Virtual and Digital Culture,” Congreso Internacional Culturtec, 2002, III European Conference: Employment and Cultural Heritage, Economic Development and New Technologies in the Information and Knowledge Society, Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2002, pp. 1-10. Available as CD- ROM.
“Books , E-Books and Augmented Books,”Unpublished, Maastricht: Pre- Proposal for a VICI Fellowship, 2002.
“Media, Languages and the Integration of the Processes of Communication,” Vielsprachigkeit. Transnationalität, Kulturwissenschaften, Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies (INST), Trans. Internet- Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, 13 Nr., Juni 2002, pp. 1-10.
Domain Names and Classification Systems. Lecture at: The First Annual European Internet Domain Name Summit, Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris, 2 rue de Viarmes, Paris 1er, 4 July 2002.Unpublished.
“Le nommage et l’indexage comme vision panoptique du reel.” Unpublished: Originally planned for: Les Cahiers Du Numérique, Paris, No. 8, Mars 2002, pp. 1- 10.
“Roadmaps for Research and Research Topics in Digital Culture,” Mapping the Future, Luxembourg, European Commission, DG INFSO, Directorate E, 28 January 2003.
“GEANT and Grids for E-Culture, Art History and Museum Studies,” GÉANT and Grid Infrastructures for Research Users, Brussels: European Commission, 2003.
“European Networks of Excellence and Global Digital Culture,” EVA-Beijing, Beijing, April 2002.
“Opening Keynote: The Challenge of Augmented Culture“, Congreso Internacional Culturtec 2000, Faculdad de Ciencias de la Informacion de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, November 2000, II Jornadas Europeas, Actas, Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2001. CD-ROM.
“Cultures et langues de l’internet,” Actes du Atelier Isoc Wallonie 2000: Langues, Cultures et Internet: enjeux, stratégies et développement durable, Namur, 2001.
“On the Links between Open Source and Culture,” Oekonux Conference, Dortmund, April 2001.
“Towards a European Vision on Research,” IIoI News, Maastricht, March, 2001.
“Content, Form and Expression in Electronic Media,” Musica Scienza 2000, Rome: Centro Ricerche Musicali, 2000, pp. 1-9.
Response to Keynote Lecture by Donald A. Norman, University of Rome 1, 5 September 2000.
Augmented Books, Knowledge and Culture, INET Conference, Yokohama. August 2000.
“Virtuality and the Discovery of Reality,” Virtuality in Europe, Paderborn: Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum, 2000, pp. 1-24.
“Augmented Knowledge and Culture,” INET’2000, July 2000.
Perspective and the Scope of Optics, Toronto, 2000. Unpublished.
“New Interfaces,” Workshop 12: Patterns of Disappearance, I-Cubed ( Intelligent Information Interfaces) Spring Days, Athens, March 2000.
Metadonnées et Mémoire Collective Systématique (MEMECS). Unpublished Lecture: ISOC Wallonie Conference, 17 June 2000.
“European Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Culture and ICT,” Unpublished, Maastricht, 1998-2000.
“Goals of Culture and Art,” Lecture to the IIC, Kuala Lumpur, September 1999.
“An Electronic Monastery for Quality, Subjects and Creativity,” Toronto, 1997. Unpublished.
New Roles for Education through the Internet. INET ’97 Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 1997.
“Why Culture is Important in a World of New Technologies,” Sydney, Panel on Cultural Ecology, 28th Annual Conference: International Institute of Communications Conference, Regency Hotel, Sydney, October 1997.
“Hypermedia: New Approaches to Cultural Heritage”, The Global Village Conference, Vienna, 13-16 February 1997, Vienna: GIVE, 1997, pp. 1-13 (in press).
“Space, Time, Information and Knowledge.” Keynote Lecture given in Venice. Published: Electronic Proceedings of the ECO-CREA Conference: Spazio, Tempo, e Informazione, Venice, May 1996.
“Content Ordering or Ordered Content? Active versus Passive Knowledge,” Toronto,1996. Unpublished.
Acceptance of the CAPIRE Prize, Kos, 1996.
McLuhan’s Oppositions and the Internet. Written Spring 1996. Unpublished.
“Digital Reference Rooms: Access to Historical and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge,” INET ’99, San Jose, June 1999.
“New Approaches to Searching, Teaching, Repairing, Advertising and Selling using SUMS (System for Universal Media Searching), Toronto, 1996, Unpublished.
“Questions and Choices,’’ Unpublished, Toronto, 1996.
“Content Ordering or Ordered Content? Active versus Passive Knowledge,” Toronto, 1996. Unpublished.
“Future Strategies and Visions for SUMS”, Acts of Congress: EVA 96′, London, 1996.
Six Steps in the Development of SUMS. Unpublished, Toronto, 1996.
Electronic Media in the Study of Alberti. Keynote at the: Congrès International Leon Battista Alberti, Paris, 1995. Unpublished.
“Art and Science with a Child’s Point of View,” Toronto, 1995. Unpublished.
“Images and Words: Fractals and Fuzzy Logic,” Toronto, 1995. Unpublished.
A System for Universal Media Searching (SUMS). Prepared for: Computers and the History of Art, London, 1994.Acts. not Published.
“Space,Time and Perspective in Print Culture and Electronic Media,” Toronto, 1992, Unpublished.
“Scientific Literature and Rise of the Quantitative Spirit,” L’époque de la Renaissance 1520-1560, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 3, (in press). Written July 1990.
Progetti computerizatti nella storia dell’arte. La visione di Eugenio Battisti” Unpublished: Centro Studi Pierfrancescani. Atti della Giornata di Lavoro tenuto a San Sepolcro, 17 febbraio 1990.

Archive Status and Forthcoming Material

The material above is a selected list of classic books, articles and other writings on perspective and related topics by Professor Kim Veltman.

The PRC plans to scan and post the eight volumes of Kim’s Studies on Leonardo da Vinci 2: Continuity and Discovery on Optics and Astronomy, including more than 4,000 pages of material. These are the original manuscripts with all images intact, unlike the versions without images posted above.

The Kim Veltman reading list does not replace the much more extensive Bibliography of Perspective (15,000 titles) or the Perspective Library catalogue (5,000 titles). Readers seeking the complete holdings of the PRC should consult those lists.