proposal part b - The Bernstein Project
proposal part b - The Bernstein Project
proposal part b - The Bernstein Project
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CIP-ICT PSP Call 4 22<br />
Pilot B<br />
[Imperialle]<br />
B3.1.1 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria (OEAW, Coordinator)<br />
Main expertise: project management, digital image processing, database systems, manuscript studies,<br />
watermark standards.<br />
Role: project management, paper and watermarks database, digital libraries, standards, dissemination, image<br />
processing tools.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Austrian Academy of Sciences is the main organisation conducting non-university academic research<br />
institutions in Austria. More than 1100 employees are involved in carrying out extensive research projects.<br />
Highly qualified researchers from Austria and abroad are included among the members of the OEAW and<br />
guarantee the “community’s” excellence in the sciences and the humanities. On average, the OEAW<br />
<strong>part</strong>icipates per year in about 50 EU projects as coordinator or <strong>part</strong>icipant.<br />
Two institutions of the OEAW are involved in the <strong>Bernstein</strong> project: the Commission for Paleography and<br />
Codicology of Medieval Manuscripts in Austria (KSBM, historians) and the Commission for Scientific<br />
Visualization (VISKOM, computer scientists). <strong>The</strong> two institutes have collaborated on digital libraries and<br />
paper research for more than 20 years. Results of this collaboration have been a database of medieval<br />
watermarks and a powerful watermark processing toolkit: the Watermark Processing and Database<br />
Management Toolkit (WMT for WZMA) and the paper portal <strong>Bernstein</strong> (www.memoryofpaper.eu). <strong>The</strong> same<br />
team was the coordinator of the INTAS project INTAS00-0081 (A Distributed Database and Processing System<br />
for Watermarks, 2001-2004) and of the eContentPlus project ECP-2005-CULT-038097 (<strong>Bernstein</strong> – <strong>The</strong><br />
Memory of Paper, 2006-2009).<br />
<strong>The</strong> main job of KSBM is the publication of catalogues of medieval manuscripts in Austrian libraries, in which<br />
all aspects of the medieval book are dealt with. Since the 1970s, two dozen catalogues have been published. In<br />
addition to these main tasks, an online database of more than 10,000 watermarks has been created over the<br />
years. It is now the third largest database of medieval watermarks worldwide. Its primary use is to aid in the<br />
dating of undated manuscripts.<br />
Homepage: http://www.oeaw.ac.at<br />
Key personnel<br />
Alois Haidinger<br />
• Studies in History and of Historical Basic Sciences in Vienna (PhD)<br />
• researcher at the KSBM since 1974<br />
• project leader of several scientific research projects in the field of manuscripts<br />
• formal member of the work group “Information systems for the research of the Middle Ages and early<br />
modern time” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)<br />
• member of Comité International de Paléographie Latine since 2004<br />
Key expertise: manuscripts, watermarks, paper history<br />
Maria Stieglecker<br />
• Studies in History and of Historical Basic Sciences in Vienna (PhD)<br />
• researcher at the KSBM since 1996 (main field of research: WZMA –Wasserzeichen des Mittelalters/<br />
Watermarks of the Middle Ages in Austria)<br />
• <strong>part</strong>icipant in several research projects on paper and watermarks (INTAS00-0081, ECP-2005-CULT-<br />
038097 and DFG)<br />
Key expertise: watermarks, paper, manuscripts<br />
Emanuel Wenger<br />
• Studies of Mathematics and Computer Science in Vienna<br />
• formal positions at the Institute of Information Processing of the OEAW<br />
• senior researcher at VISKOM of the OEAW since 1999<br />
• coordinator of an INTAS (INTAS00-0081) and eContentPlus (ECP-2005-CULT-038097) project<br />
Key expertise: image processing, visualization, project management, digital libraries