Obiettivo Watermarks are the most important tool for dating undated documents written on paper. Hence, catalogues and databases of watermarks play an eminent role for the work of medievalist and paper historians. The proposed project has the aim to improve this tool in two directions.One is the development of a distributed watermark database and processing system, which allows the access to local watermark databases with different structures in different locations and the processing of images from different sources. Such a distributed system will be implemented as server/client system and will be based on the Internet. This will make possible the remote access to watermarks from different collections and sources. The common access to watermarks in Russian and western European libraries will be of major benefit for historians of both sides. Russian libraries keep a lot of manuscripts and early printed books from West Europe. As paper production in Russia started only in the 18th century, both sides share the same watermarks. Until now, only a small part of watermarks from Russian collections has been published so far, and this has been done with hand-made tracings.The second direction is to improve the watermark extraction by new radiographic methods and optical techniques. This will make the production of watermark hardcopies faster and cheaper and lift up their quality significantly.The project will give a tremendous boost to watermark research in Russia and interesting findings for historians can be expected The project will be implemented by five teams (2 INTAS teams, 3 NIS teams from Russia), which will have access to huge collections of manuscripts and early printed books in Russia, Netherlands and Austria. Programma(i) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Argomento(i) 7 - Economics, Social and Human Sciences OPEN - OPEN Call Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento Data not available Coordinatore Austrian Academy of Sciences Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Sonnenfelsgasse 19 1010 Wien Austria Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (4) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands Paesi Bassi Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Prins willem Alexanderhof 5 2509 LK The Hague Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Russian Academy of Sciences Russia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Birgevaja linia, 1 199034 St. Petersburg Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Russian Academy of Sciences Russia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Bolshoi Karetny Per. 19 101447 Moscow Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato State Historical Museum Russia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Krasnaja ploshad, 1/2 103012 Moscow Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato
