LIP6 2000/023
- Reports
Profil, une base de données iconographique sur les papiers filigranés modernes - B. de.La.Passardière, C. Bustarret
- 30 pages - 09/12/2000- document en - http://www.lip6.fr/lip6/reports/2000/lip6.2000.023.ps.gz - 1,193 Ko
- Contact : Brigitte.de-la-Passardiere (at) nulllip6.fr
- Ancien Thème : SYSDEF
- Keywords : Database,image, betagraphy, watermarked paper, codicology
- Publisher : Valerie.Mangin (at) nulllip6.fr
The database Profil has been set up to offer to the readers studying modern literary manuscripts a reference tool to identify watermarked papers. In the study of writers' drafts as in artists' sketches, the different kinds of papers used provide valuable information on the genesis of a work of art and watermarks, when they exist, are the best visible hint allowing us to identify paper. A multimedia database, with digitized images more precise than usual traced design, seems to be appropriate to register, visualize, and compare modern watermarked papers. Besides its usefulness for specialists, such a database bearing on modern manuscripts should also be conceived in a didactic perspective, as it is oriented towards literary scholars who are not particularly familiar with the history of modern paper. In this paper we present the database Profil which includes a set of digitized images from a collection of betagraphies maid by the reproduction service of the National French Library. Then we explain problems of database normalization when human sciences are involved.