Bernstein Tutorial 2007, July 10-12, Fabriano, Italy

Public tutorials are for parties interested to recieve training in digital paper expertise and history by using the tools and methodologies of members of the project.

NOTE: THIS TUTORIAL IS ADJOURNED.

Venue

Fabriano, Italy: Museo della carta et della filigrana

Programm

For Bernstein Consortium members only: The annual general meeting is taking place one day before the first tutorial day. See GM 2007.

List of participants

Tuesday 10 July: Introduction, Papermill visit and Special topics

		Introduction
09:00-09:45	45'	What paper expertise and history is about; milestone ressources and personalities; what Bernstein aims to do; goals of the tutorial	PeterRuckert
		Papermill visit
09:50-10:25	35'	Papermill guided tour	GiorgioPellegrini
10:25-11:00	35'	MCF watermarks collection tour	GiorgioPellegrini
11:00-12:30	1:30'	HANDS-ON: Make a paper with your own hands	MCF papermakers
12:30-14:00	Lunch
		Special topics: East returns West: European export papers in the Middle East
14:00-14:55	55'	Export/import history between Europe and the Middle East	JonathanBloom?
15:00-15:55	55'	Differencies between European and Middle Eastern-made papers	AnneRegourd?
16:00-16:30	30'	Sample collection of export and native papers (Cambridge University Library)	CharlesMelville?
16:30-17:00	30'	Information gathered from the reproduction of all folia of a single manuscript (Iranian Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)	BertFragner?

Wednesday 11 July: Reproduction, Cataloguing

		Reproduction
09:00-09:20	20'	The reproduction chain: from moving sieve to imprint to various analog and digital reproduction (show a sieve and the working papermakers; show variation of the same watermark across reproduction instances)	VladAtanasiu
09:20-09:50	30'	HANDS-ON: experience the variation in handdrawing of the same watermark	VladAtanasiu
09:55-10:20	20'	Analog reproductions: types, procedures, differencies	GerardVanThienen
10:20-10:35	20'	HANDS-ON: prepare a rubbing	GerardVanThienen
10:40-11:10	30'	HANDS-ON: extract the structure from a frontlight minus the backlight image	GeorgDietz
11:15-11:35	20'	Digital reproductions: digitization hardware and software, images of various formats for various usages, how to choose	DUT PhD student
11:35-11:45	10'	Image pre-processing: why, with what, how	DUT PhD student
11:45-12:30	45'	HANDS-ON: image enhancement: background equalization, dynamic range adjustment, ...	DUT PhD student, VladAtanasiu
12:30-14:00	1:30	Lunch
		Cataloguing
14:00-14:45	45'	From data to record: what features we see in images of paper reproductions, what metadata to put on a paper reproduction catalogue file	AloisHaidinger
14:50-15:25	35'	WM classification schemes	PeterRuckert
15:30-16:15	45'	Database software: training in setting up a digital paper collection, working localy, bringing the collection online and networking with other collections	RobSanderson
16:20-16:55	35'	HANDS-ON: search watermarks in the on-line databases	CarmenKaemmerer

Thursday 12 July: Measurements, Expertise, Contextual Ressources, History

		Measurements
09:00-09:20	20'	Basics of digital image processing: what is a digital image, how to "process" it, ....	EmanuelWenger
09:20-09:35	15'	Features measurements: goals, methods, tools	GeorgDietz
09:35-09:55	20'	HANDS-ON: measure laid-lines densities, other measurements	VladAtanasiu
		Expertise
10:00-10:20	20'	How to date papers: methods and tools	MariaStieglecker
10:30-10:55	25'	HANDS-ON: date a document	MariaStieglecker
11:00-10:10	10'	How to authentify paper documents: methods and tools	GeorgDietz
11:10-11:25	20'	HANDS-ON: authentify a document	GeorgDietz
		Contextual Ressources
11:30-12:00	30'	Contextual ressources: bibliography of paper	FriederSchmidt
12:00-13:30	1:30	Lunch
		History
13:30-14:25	55'	What historical information can be extracted from papers: from paper expertise to aspects of culture, technology, society, demography, politics... A totally interconnected world	EzioOrnato
14:30-14:45	15'	Representing paper history: a cartography of paper	EzioOrnato
14:45-15:10	25'	HANDS-ON: map a paper feature	EzioOrnato
		Picknick
16:00-21:00	5:00	Summer evening picknick in the grass on the hill near the monastery with view over Fabriano, the mountains and beyond. 2 hours walk. Wild fruits on the way. See the San Silvestro monastery and the map.

Varia documents

• Digitizing costs for collections of paper reproductions
• List of collections of paper reproductions

Important Notice

We want to held this meeting during the festival of San Giovanni. A lot of tourists will be in Fabriano. Please make your room reservation on time! Look on:
http://www.bernstein.oeaw.ac.at/twiki/bin/view/Main/VenueMCF

If you need help or if there are problems -please contact me! -- GeorgDietz.

-- VladAtanasiu - 27 Oct 2006
-- GDietz - 23 Jan 2007