This poster presents the Database of Early Modern Czech Book Illustration (e-ilustrace.cz) as a digital humanities infrastructure reshaping approaches to Czech printed illustrations of the early modern period. Bringing together more than 6,600 woodcut illustrations from Czech prints up to the mid-sixteenth century, the project moves beyond digitization toward computationally structured visual scholarship and large-scale image analysis.

Three features make the resource particularly relevant for current DH research. First, its structured iconographic intelligence: records integrate detailed bibliographic description with ICONCLASS classification, enabling complex thematic and comparative queries across dispersed corpora. Second, its IIIF-based interoperability allows high-resolution viewing, side-by-side comparison, and integration with external repositories, situating Czech material within a transregional visual network. Third, it provides tools for analytical reuse tracking, making it possible to trace individual woodblocks across multiple editions and thus reconstruct workshop practices, image circulation, and serial visuality in early modern print culture.

Rather than functioning as a static repository, e-ilustrace operates as a research laboratory—illustrating how standardized metadata, visual technologies, and interoperable infrastructures can support new methodological perspectives in book history and early modern visual studies.