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Catalog
Statistics
Atlas
Contexts
Bibliography
Identification
Authentication
Measurement
Development
Learning
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HISTORY 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 descriptions focus on the watermarks, the paper mould imprint, the objects' identity, and provide reproductions of internal paper structures. The Catalog can be searched by keywords and paper characteristics, and watermarks found by looking up a visual classification or describing their morphological components.
The [ Statistics ] resource is oriented towards the study of historical phenomena through the lens of paper. It provides statistical analysis and visualization tools to explore the quantitative and structural proprieties of the data sets and discover the historical significance of their characteristics.
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. The statistical tools serve the understanding of variabilities in paper distributions.
[ Contexts ] has a two fold use: let understand the history of papers by considering the external historical factors that shaped it and vice versa. The resource lets you search for correlates between phenomena by providing access to thematic data sets used in conjunction with the Statistics and Mapping applications. Designed to be extensible, it includes presently data sets on incunabula, historical administrative units, plague epidemics, natural geographic features.
The [ Bibliography ] consists of 20.000 bibliographic records on historical, technological, social, trade and other aspects of pre-modern paper published up to 2009. Integrated to the Mapping application it allows knowledge deepening by revealing bibliographical resources associated with your search.
EXPERTISE RESOURCES
[ 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. These are compared to Bernstein data sets and an expert opinion emitted according to the algorithms developed in collaboration with human experts.
[ 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, checked against the Bernstein data pool.
[ Measure ] is at the core of the digital paper studies workflow: 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 paper mould imprint revealed by various techniques of reproductions: watermark size and landmarks, laid and chain lines mean density and distance.
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, documentation on building your digital catalog and reproduction techniques, and some standalone software and data sets. This resource promotes historical research through the creation and use of digital collaboration networks.
[ Learning ] offers introductive material to digital paper studies in form of an online exhibition, downloadable catalog, an advertisement posters and selected links.
[ About ] stores the archives of the Bernstein Project, giving insight into its history and activities.
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