10 Years Project Bernstein Review and Projection Emanuel

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

Bernstein – the Memory of Paper • Project e. Content. Plus: 2006 -2009 w 10 years Project Bernstein Review and Projection Provide a multilingual interface in six languages • Creation of a portal for online databases and information about paper and watermarks • • 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 Emanuel Wenger Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna May 26, 2016 c c w … watermark c … chain line l … laid lines Main result: Bernstein portal www. memoryofpaper. eu l c

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)

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

Thank you! Merci! Obrigado! ¡Gracias! Спаси бо! Grazie! Tänu! ! ﺑﻔﻀﻞ Danke! 1912 2009 2013 2014