1. Languages and Terminology in the Bernstein Portal
Emanuel Wenger
4th Int. Conference on Watermarks in Digital Collections
Vienna, October 2017

2. 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 l c c c
w … watermark
c … chain line
l … laid lines
Main result: Bernstein portal

3. Languages (2009) Dialogues (user interface) Watermark terms English
German
French
Italian
Spanish
Russian

4. Languages (2017) Dialogues (user interface) Watermark terms English
German
French
Italian
Spanish
Russian
Hungarian (Jenő Pelbárt)
Portuguese (Maria José Santos, Henrique Castro)
Greek (Ilias Nesseris)
Dutch or Arabic (?)

5. User interface

6. User interface

7. User interface

8. User interface

9. User interface

10. Terminology
What is this?

11. Terminology chalice, goblet, cup Pokal, Kelch, Becher, Humpen
Likhachev
Briquet
chalice, goblet, cup
Pokal, Kelch, Becher, Humpen
Tower of Babel (Frauenknecht)

12. 10 years Project Bernstein
Terminology
Piccard-Online
WILC Ox
Bull
Rod consisting in two lines
Double line
Above cross
Above latin cross
St Anthony´s cross or T
Letter Tau
Cross/leaf consisting in two lines
Quatrefoil
Cross consisting in two lines
Double line cross
Formy cross
Maltese cross
Leaf/flower/tree [...] four-leaved
Leaf/flower/tree [...] four-petalled
Horn turned 90 degrees
Horn vertical
Paschal lamb straight-orientated
Paschal lamb horizontal
Cloverleaf four-leaved
Cloverleaf trifoliate
Trefoil
Conch
Shell
With eight rays
Eight-pointed
With six rays
Six-pointed
Luminary moon
Luminary crescent
10 years Project Bernstein
Review and Projection
Emanuel Wenger
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
May 26, 2016

13. Watermark-Terms
English – Deutsch – Français – Ελληνικά – Italiano – Русский – Español – Português – Magyar
Vocabulary for Watermark Description
Authors:
Erwin Frauenknecht, Carmen Kämmerer, Peter Rückert, Maria Stieglecker With the aid of
Marieke van Delft (English)
Paola Munafò and Viviana Nicoletti (Italian) Елена В. Уханова (Elena Oukhanova, Russian) Marisa Ferrando Cusí (Spanish)
Jenő Pelbárt (Hungarian)
Maria José Santos and Henrique Castro (Portuguese) Ηλίας Νέσσερης (Ilias Nesseris, Greek)
Special thanks go to Alois Haidinger, Sandra Hodeček, Victor Karnaukhov, Sven Limbeck, Emanuel Wenger, and Luis Weruaga.
Version 10.3: April 2017

14. Watermark terms

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16. Terminology

17. Terminology

18. Terminology

20. Classification
IPH Standard
WZMA Bernstein WZIS navigation by icons

24. Thank you! Merci! Obrigado!
¡Gracias!
Gràcies!
Спаси́бо!
Grazie!
Ευχαριστώ!
Tänu!
بفضل!
Takk!
Tak!
Danke!