Signa vides - Researching and recording printers’ devices: current activities and new perspectives

A conference organised under the auspices of CERL by Prof. Dr. Anja Wolkenhauer (University of Tübingen), Michaela Scheibe (Berlin State Library) and Dr. Andreas Fingernagel (Austrian National Library).

Programme and Abstracts.

Anja Wolkenhauer, University of Tübingen, Institute of Classical Philology
Old & new research on printers’ devices

Melinda Simon, University of Szeged, Department of Library and Human Information Science
Cataloguing printers’ marks in Hungary – achievements and objectives

Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Jagiellonian University Library, Cracow
When is a device not a device? Problematic woodcuts from Krakow printing shops

Marina Venier, National Central Library of Rome, Cataloguing Department of the Older Book
Italian printers’ devices databases: from EDIT16 to SBN and not least MAR.T.E.

Hans Brandhorst, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University Library / Arkyves
Dutch printers’ devices – from standalone catalogue to networked web resource

Michaela Scheibe and Christina Schmitz, Berlin State Library, Department of Early Printed Books
Towards a standardised description of printers’ devices: authority files and more