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It provides resources in the following main application areas: historical research on paper in Europe during pre-modern times, expertise of documents made from paper, measurement of structural characteristics of papers, technical support for the creation of new paper databases, introduction to digital paper studies. The targeted user communities are historians (especially paper, book and art historians), curators (libraries, archives, museums), art collectors, experts and merchants, traditional papermakers and modern paper industry, forensic experts (courts, police, intelligence). The resources were developed by the Bernstein
Project, an international consortium of computer sciences
institutes, national libraries and archives, historical research
laboratories. It was active between 2006-2009 and was co-funded by
the European Commission, eContentPlus program.
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OUR WATERMARK RESOURCES
The [ Catalog ] provides a mean to study the
history of individual paper objects. It consists from over 120.000 records
of papers from pre-modern Europe found in books, archive documents,
prints.
The [ Statistics ] resource provides statistical
analysis and visualization tools to explore the quantitative and
structural proprieties of the data sets.
With [ Atlas ] you create maps of paper
distribution across space and time. The resource helps you visualize the
relationship between paper production, distribution & consumption and
the natural & human geography.
YOUR WATERMARK RESOURCES
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Identification ] is an expertise resource
for dating and localizing paper documents supplied by users. It relies on
measurements of the paper mould imprint features watermark, laid and chain
lines.
[ Authentication ] provides means to verify
the authenticity of the purposed date and localization of a document
through the analysis of physical and historical characteristics of the
paper it is made of.
[ Measure ]: translating into numbers
features of the physical make up of paper documents the resource is
oriented towards the measurement through image processing of features of
the paper mould imprint.
RESEARCH RESOURCES
The [ Bibliography ] consists of 20.000
bibliographic records on historical, technological, social, trade and
other aspects of pre-modern paper published up to 2009.
DISSEMINATION RESOURCES
The [ Development ] resource is a downloadable
kit containing a database software specifically designed for cataloging
papers and connectable to the Bernstein pool of resources.
[ Learning ] offers introductive material to
digital paper studies in form of an online exhibition, downloadable
catalog, etc.
[ About ] stores the archives of the
Bernstein Project, giving insight into its history and activities.
The Bernstein Consortium, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Donau-City Str. 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43 1 515 81 6702, Fax:
+43 1 205 011 8900, bernstein@oeaw.ac.at, http://www.bernstein.oeaw.ac.at