provenio - book provenance research

PROVENIO

THE DATABASE OF BOOK PROVENANCE

http://www.provenio.netprovenio@provenio.net

Richard ŠípekThe National Museum Library (Prague)

project timing: 2012-2015

the project team: The National Museum Library (Prague):

Dept. of Manuscripts and Early Prints Dept. of Castle Libraries Dept. of Book Culture Dept. of the Central Library

co-operating institutions: The National Museum Archive Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature Library of the Museum of Czech Literature Institute of Information Science and Librarianship co-operating individual literary historian

technical solution:

The project of the Library of the National Museum supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture in the frame of „Programme of

Applied Research and Development of the National and Cultural Identity (NAKI)“

TIMING AND CO-OPERATION

general methodics for cataloguing and description of the book provenance (in co-operation with CERL) – respect for the unique and specific features of the Czech book provenance and cataloguing habits

authority thesaurus for classification of the book provenance records(Czec / English)

the book provenance database PROVENIO http://www.provenio.net

web portal http://www.provenio.net

the book collections included: manuscripts, incunabulas, early prints 1501-1800 privat, family and institutional libraries (aristocratic and bourgeios) modern book collections – interesting provenance privat libraries of important persons of the Czech modern cultural, social

and political life 19th-20th century

MAIN GOALS

The project of the Library of the National Museum supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture in the frame of „Programme of

Applied Research and Development of the National and Cultural Identity (NAKI)“

main issue: database PROVENIO http://www.provenio.net

2014 - „Methodics of the Book Provenance Research“- 2014 issue of Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series C - Historia Litterarum content: papers on the methodics of the book provenance research by the Czech, Slovac, Polish, German, English and French authors

2014 - interactive map- two interactive maps based on data from the provenance research- location and transfer of the books from the National Museum Library

2015 - „Provenance Collections in the National Museum Library“- a book publishing the research issues of the project- profound description of the provenance structure of the NationalMuseum Library

2015 - „Who did it belong to…“ - exhibition introducing the most interesting chapters from the book provenance history

ISSUES

The project of the Library of the National Museum supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture in the frame of „Programme of

Applied Research and Development of the National and Cultural Identity (NAKI)“

Thesaurus of Provenance Records Terminology

Czech and English version three hierarchical levels

• first two levels obligatory – validated with the authority dictionary (yellow - blue) – both levels recorded in the field 655, subfield $a - $b• third level facultative (voluntary) – free text recorded in the field 561 $a

10 main categories (yellow)

I. Rukopisný zápis rukopisné exlibris

rukopisné exlibris – monogram

rukopisné exlibris – devíza rukopisné exlibris – „ex-

dono“ rukopisné exlibris – podpis

rukopisné exlibris na štítku rukopisné exlibris na štítku

– monogramrukopisné exlibris na štítku

– devíza rukopisné exlibris na štítku

– „ex-dono“rukopisné exlibris na štítku

– podpis

561 $a

I. Handwritten Provenance Recordhandwritten ex libris

handwritten ex libris – monogram (initials)

handwritten ex libris – motto handwritten ex libris – „ex-

dono“handwritten ex libris –

signature handwritten ex libris on card

handwritten ex libris on card – monogram

(initials)handwritten ex libris on card

– mottohandwritten ex libris on card

– „ex-dono“handwritten ex libris on card

– signature

655 $a

655 $b

561 $a

655 $b

Authority record of the book owner (person, institution)

important and emphasized data:

biographical and historiographical data associated place occupation gender description of library/books common provenance records library location

image supplement portrait of the book owner library room, shelves examples of the provenance records digital copies of the relevant archival documents

link to the relevant bibliographic records books owned by the person/institution in question

catalogue of the National Museum Library catalogues of other Czech libraries catalogues of the foreign libraries

URL imbedded in the hyperlink always in syntax of the dynamic request – the most actual retrieval

field 678 field 370

field 374 field 375

field 680 field 680

field 680

field 856

field 856

Online presentation of the authrority data record of the imperial physician Johannes Crato of Crafftheim in the PROVENIO database

370 – associated place

374 – occupation

375 – gender

Newly added fields according to CERL pattern:

678 – biographical or historical information

680 – multiple field repetition$a – heading$i – main information

856 – hyperlinks to image files and other textual and multimedia information

856 – hyperlink to the relevant bibliographic records

MARC 21 structure of the authority data record

Bibliographic Record – Provenance Cataloguing

important and emphasized data:

description of the provenance record classification categories complying

with the authority thesaurus free text description of the provenance record

together with location in the book access to the relevant image information

(photo of the provenance record) linking of the provenance record with

the authority record of the book owner

cataloguing of more than one provenance records different fields attached to and discribing one

provenance record are linked via

several provenance records in one book are displayed in the chronological order

field 655

field 561

field 856

field 700 and 710

subfield $8

Online presentation of a bibliographic data record in the PROVENIO database

the earliest provenanceby Johannes Crato

later provenance byOtto of Nostic

the latest provenance by the family Nostic-Rhieneck

code of the thesaurus of provenance classification

different role code = different authority thesaurus

hyperlinks to the image, textual and multimedial information

hyperlink to the independent record of convolute.

the content of different fields clustered by the corresponding content of the subfield $8.

MARC 21 structure of thebibliographic data record

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