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For further details about CERL’s goals, consult the five-year [[: | For further details about CERL’s goals, consult the five-year [[: | ||
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+ | ==== Heritage of the Printed Book Database ==== | ||
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The HPB (originally known as the Hand Press Book) Database started to take shape in 1994 when the Consortium began to gather and edit MARC files for European pre-1830 printed books. It consists of files contributed by member libraries and other organisations, | The HPB (originally known as the Hand Press Book) Database started to take shape in 1994 when the Consortium began to gather and edit MARC files for European pre-1830 printed books. It consists of files contributed by member libraries and other organisations, | ||
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The database currently holds over 3 million records. For a list of the current holdings of the database, please consult [[: | The database currently holds over 3 million records. For a list of the current holdings of the database, please consult [[: | ||
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+ | ==== CERL Thesaurus ==== | ||
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The CERL Thesaurus (CT) is a public database which contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, and personal names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century (including variant spellings, forms in Latin and other languages, and fictitious names). It also contains provenance details with links out to library catalogues describing the books once owned by the listed person or institution, | The CERL Thesaurus (CT) is a public database which contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, and personal names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century (including variant spellings, forms in Latin and other languages, and fictitious names). It also contains provenance details with links out to library catalogues describing the books once owned by the listed person or institution, | ||
The file was created as a reference tool for bibliographers and scholars of the history of the book and is based on authority files made available by member libraries and others. It has also been adapted to provide assisted searching on names for the Heritage of the Printed Book Database and the CERL Portal, as well as acting as default authority file for provenance names in MEI. This facility could be made available for a similar function in other databases. | The file was created as a reference tool for bibliographers and scholars of the history of the book and is based on authority files made available by member libraries and others. It has also been adapted to provide assisted searching on names for the Heritage of the Printed Book Database and the CERL Portal, as well as acting as default authority file for provenance names in MEI. This facility could be made available for a similar function in other databases. | ||
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+ | ==== CERL Portal ==== | ||
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The CERL Portal (CP) is intended to provide access to distributed databases containing manuscripts materials and descriptions of early printed books. | The CERL Portal (CP) is intended to provide access to distributed databases containing manuscripts materials and descriptions of early printed books. | ||
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The Electronic Publishing Centre (EPC) of the University Library of Uppsala in Sweden has hosted and maintained the CERL Portal since 2005. Dr Ivan Boserup of the University Library in Denmark, together with the CERL Secretariat, | The Electronic Publishing Centre (EPC) of the University Library of Uppsala in Sweden has hosted and maintained the CERL Portal since 2005. Dr Ivan Boserup of the University Library in Denmark, together with the CERL Secretariat, | ||
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+ | ==== Material Evidence in Incunabula ==== | ||
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+ | MEI is a database for recording and searching the material evidence of 15th-century printed books: ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, | ||
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+ | It was created in 2009 by Cristina Dondi and developed by Alexander Jahnke (DCG) with funding from the British Academy granted to Nigel Palmer and Cristina Dondi. | ||
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+ | MEI is freely available via the CERL website, and an ever increasing group of academics and librarians records provenance information for their collections in the database. | ||
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+ | ==== Web resources for the history of the book ==== | ||
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- | MEI is a database for recording and searching the material evidence of 15th-century printed books: ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, | + | |
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- | It was created in 2009 by Cristina Dondi and developed by Alexander Jahnke (DCG) with funding from the British Academy granted to Nigel Palmer and Cristina Dondi. It is hosted by CERL, and freely available to use and to contribute to, on its website. | + | |
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