1. 10 Years Project Bernstein
Review and Projection
Emanuel Wenger
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
May 26, 2016

2. 10 years Project Bernstein Review and Projection
Bernstein – the Memory of Paper
Project eContentPlus:
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 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

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9 teams (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Great Britain)
4 databases
PO – Piccard Online: wm, Staatsarchiv Stuttgart, Germany.
WILC (Watermarks in Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries): wm, KB, The Hague, Netherlands
WZMA (Watermarks of the Middle-Ages): wm, ÖAW, Vienna, Austria
NIKI (Dutch University Institute for Art History, Florence, Italy):, wm
6 languages
31,000 bibliographic entries

4. 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)

5. Thanks to António Jorge Marques

17. Future work
Add new databases (CCI, Corpus de Filigranas Hispánicas, … )
Digitize and build databases for printed catalogues

19. 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

20. Thank you! Merci! Obrigado!
¡Gracias!
Спаси́бо!
Grazie!
Tänu!
بفضل!
Danke!
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