10 Years Project Bernstein Review and Projection Emanuel Wenger Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna May 26, 2016
10 years Project Bernstein Review and Projection Bernstein – the Memory of Paper Project eContentPlus: 2006-2009 Creation of a portal for online databases and information about paper and watermarks Provide a multilingual interface in six languages Presentation of the results in form of a list, a map or a statistic summary On-line bibliography on paper with more 31.000 entries w 10 years Project Bernstein Review and Projection l c c c w … watermark c … chain line l … laid lines Emanuel Wenger Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna May 26, 2016 Main result: Bernstein portal www.memoryofpaper.eu
2006-2009 9 teams (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Great Britain) 4 databases PO – Piccard Online: 92.000 wm, Staatsarchiv Stuttgart, Germany. WILC (Watermarks in Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries): 16.000 wm, KB, The Hague, Netherlands WZMA (Watermarks of the Middle-Ages): 9.000 wm, ÖAW, Vienna, Austria NIKI (Dutch University Institute for Art History, Florence, Italy):, 2.500 wm 6 languages 31,000 bibliographic entries
May 2016 Austria, Belgium, Cuba, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, USA 29 databases with 228,000 watermarks WILC WIES WIGB Piccard Briquet Likhachev Mošin (in work) Heitz Mazzoldi Wittek 8 languages (English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) 31,000 bibliographic entries (2009)
Thanks to António Jorge Marques
Future work Add new databases (CCI, Corpus de Filigranas Hispánicas, … ) Digitize and build databases for printed catalogues
Future work Watermark terms (incomplete, not enough flexible), classification, translation Resume the bibliography (current status: 2009, German National Library) Improve the user interface, add tools (measurement) Search by images Improve the performance (server, software) Maps for place of use, depository, paper mill New English edition of Bull’s head and mermaid
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