13.00.00 Pedagogical sciences
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METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE FORMATION OF THE DATABASE BASED ON THE ICONOGRAPHY OF PLANTS
DescriptionThe article considers methodological approaches to creating a database of the agricultural crops iconography. At present time, involving in the educational and scientific process the artistic works, as a resource of visual information, becomes a very actual and even indispensable tool for the formation of new knowledge about cultivated plants. The work deals with iconography as a system of images of certain subjects and characters presented in painting, ceramics, mosaic, sculpture, tapestry, murals, stamps, postcards, posters, labels, photos giving information about this or that agricultural plant. Electronic databases are the kind of information portal with visual images. Databases for the iconography of agricultural plants are successfully used in the scientific process, because exist the e evidence of changes in plants under the influence of scientific selection, the search for rare and ancient genotypes. Any source of information contains only a certain set of information, far from exhausting existing points of view, statistical data, analytical calculations relating directly or indirectly to this topic. Due to this circumstance, there is a need to search for new forms of information that can be successfully implemented in the iconography of the image of agricultural plants. The creation of electronic databases includes several stages. Development of the database structure. If this is a separate topic, then the basic questions of the topic are revealed and saturated with visual images. Selection of visual images. As visual images we can consider paintings of artists, cartoons, drawings, schemes, infographics, i.e. illustrations of various kinds