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At first the number of hits is retrieved via an according<br />
search request to the Piccard-Online SRU-gateway:<br />
http://bernstein.iicm.tugraz.at:8080/GateWayPOL/sru?operation=se<br />
archRetrieve&<br />
version=1.2&query=(dc.title=”*vogel*” AND dc.title=”*krone*”)&<br />
startRecord=1&maximumRecords=0&extraRequestData=ge<br />
As a response, the following XML file with the number of<br />
hits is returned:<br />
<br />
1.2<br />
107<br />
<br />
After this, the first ten records according to the specified<br />
sort order are requested:<br />
http://bernstein.iicm.tugraz.at:8080/GateWayPOL/sru?operation=se<br />
archRetrieve&<br />
version=1.2&query=(dc.title=”*vogel*” AND dc.title=”*krone*”)<br />
sortBy dc.title/sort.ascending dc.date/sort.ascending&<br />
startRecord=1&maximumRecords=10&extraRequestData=ge<br />
As a response, the following XML file with the first ten records<br />
is returned:<br />
<br />
1.2<br />
107<br />
<br />
<br />
1<br />
info:srw/schema/1/dc-v1.1<br />
xml<br />
<br />
57<br />
Bologna<br />
1533<br />
42345<br />
53<br />
Vogel – Ganze Figur – Darüber Krone<br />
HHStA Wien<br />
PA 29<br />
33<br />
<br />
http://maja.bsz-bw.de/piccard/bilder/vorschau/042345.png<br />
<br />
<br />
http://www.piccard-online.de/detailansicht.php?PHPSESSID=&klassi=033.002.005&ordnr=42345<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
10<br />
...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
P.K. / A.P. / W.S. (C.P.-K.)<br />
104<br />
Piccard-Online <strong>and</strong> its Incorporation<br />
into the <strong>Bernstein</strong>-Workspace<br />
Piccard-Online is one of the watermark databases that is<br />
being integrated into the <strong>Bernstein</strong>-Workspace within the<br />
framework of the EU project “<strong>Bernstein</strong> – <strong>The</strong> Memory of<br />
Paper”. It is based on the Piccard watermark collection <strong>and</strong><br />
has been available online since September 2006 (www.piccard-online.de).<br />
With its 92,000 samples it is the largest collection<br />
of its kind. <strong>The</strong> digital entries are based on the index<br />
cards that Gerhard Piccard assembled with arduous attention<br />
to detail. <strong>The</strong> watermark images have a resolution of<br />
400 dpi (bitonal). <strong>The</strong>y can be printed, at 1:1 scale with the<br />
original, in PDF format for comparisons with undated watermarks,<br />
which enables an accurate dating of manuscripts.<br />
It is possible to do research in two ways in Piccard-Online<br />
– systematic visual searches are possible as well as classic<br />
keyword searches. <strong>The</strong> classification is hierarchical, with<br />
thirty-eight main groups dividing into as many as six levels<br />
of sub-groups. Both the main groups, which delineate the<br />
different major watermark motifs, <strong>and</strong> the lower levels are<br />
organized according to the motifs’ various characteristic<br />
features. Thus, the main motif emphasizes the more clearcut<br />
differences, which are then differentiated in more detail<br />
at the lower levels. <strong>The</strong> motif “Tower”, for instance, has in<br />
its first sub-group a division of twenty-five further characteristics,<br />
under which there are up to four more sub-classes<br />
(see Ill. 6).<br />
In the text search of Piccard-Online one can choose between<br />
a simple search <strong>and</strong> an advanced search. By means<br />
of the search field, the search engine is initially set to examine<br />
all fields. By clicking on one or more search fields, the<br />
search can be refined. Both truncation as well as “<strong>and</strong>” or<br />
“or” searches are possible. In addition to this, watermark<br />
images can be found by means of indices (cf. Ill. 7). <strong>The</strong><br />
keywords are based on the descriptions of the watermarks<br />
within their classifications <strong>and</strong> are offered in three languages.<br />
<strong>The</strong> terminology is based on that used by Gerhard<br />
Piccard for his register of watermarks (“Wasserzeichenkartei”;<br />
see Best<strong>and</strong> J 340 in the Hauptstaatsarchiv<br />
Stuttgart).<br />
<strong>The</strong> window for the search result has been designed so<br />
that both the metadata <strong>and</strong> the thumbnails of the individual<br />
watermarks are immediately visible. <strong>The</strong> single hits can<br />
be opened in an extra window <strong>and</strong>, as already mentioned<br />
above, be printed at 1:1 scale of the original index card.<br />
Research options in the <strong>Bernstein</strong>-Portal<br />
As in Piccard-Online, in the <strong>Bernstein</strong>-Workspace, it is possible<br />
to conduct a keyword search as well as a systematic<br />
search. At the different search levels it is generally possible<br />
to recognize the database that has been integrated into the<br />
<strong>Bernstein</strong>-Workspace. This allows one to choose, among<br />
other things, to use a particular database. Currently these<br />
databases are: POL for “Piccard-Online” of the L<strong>and</strong>esarchiv<br />
Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart; WILC for “Watermarks in<br />
Incunabula in the Low Countries” of the Royal Library of<br />
the Netherl<strong>and</strong>s in <strong>The</strong> Haag (http://watermark.kb.nl/); WZ-