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"Approaching the history of books through their ownership and use hasbecome standard thinking and we have seen a great increase in work onprovenance, private libraries, the history of reading, the book as amaterial object – there are many ways of badging it. Library cataloguesand other databases now contain huge quantities of data on formerownership of books. What we do not have is a directory of owners, wherewe can turn for up to date information on the size, contents and fate ofpeople’s libraries, to help identify markings and to place particularbooks in a wider context./Book Owners Online/– https://bookowners.online/ – has been created to fill thatgap. Based on the software than runs/Wikipedia/, it is designed as aneasy-to-use database built round a backbone of owners of all kinds, withdetails of their careers and libraries, and on where to look for moreinformation. It includes images of characteristic markings, where thesecan be obtained, such as inscriptions, bookplates and armorials. Itgathers evidence from a wide range of sources – surviving books, listsand inventories, sale catalogues, information from wills, use ofbookplates, and more – rather than from any particular libraries. It isnot a comprehensive provenance index for all the names to be found inbooks – which would be a different undertaking – but concentrates onpeople who we know owned enough books to justify a narrative.The project is a collaboration between the*Bibliographical Society*andthe*Centre for Editing Lives &#38; Letters*at*UCL*, with support from thethe*Bodleian Library*. It currently covers only seventeenth-centuryEnglish book owners – people who died between 1610 and 1715 – but it isdesigned to be scalable and we hope to expand it chronologically andgeographically.  This first phase is now ready to be used and we wouldlike to encourage the book-historical community to discover it, engagewith it, and give us feedback on improving it . We’d be very grateful ifyou could help to publicise it any way you can, through links onwebsites or social media,  by citing it or reviewing it, by telling yourcolleagues and students.It’s not perfect and it never will be. It’s an online database, free toaccess, easy to edit. We hope it will be useful and become embedded inour book-historical reference landscape - do please have a look."Dieses neue provenienzgeschichtliche Online-Nachschlagewerk ist so mangelhaft, dass man in die Tischkante beißen möchte.Dass man mit englischen Bucheignern des 17. Jahrhunderts beginnt, ist so unendlich anglozentrisch ignorant, dass man am liebsten die Seite wieder schließen möchte.Nach PERSONAVINO bewertet:PERmalink: NEINSOcial Media/Sharing: NEINNachnutzung: Ja, aber nur CC-BY-NCAnnotation/Feedback: NEINKein Direktlink vom Eintrag aus.VIewer: Die Auflösung der Bilder könnte besser sein.NOrmdaten: NEIN.Das ist bei einem solchen Projekt unverzeihlich.Ergänzend: Bei der jeweiligen Literatur sind die Vornamen abgekürzt, online verfügbare Literatur wird kaum nachgewiesen, allenfalls das kostenpflichtige National Dictionary.Wieso gibt es keine Verküpfung z.B. mit CERLs MEI, etwa bei Laud:https://bookowners.online/William_Laud https://data.cerl.org/owners/00013103Ich breche ... ab.#buchgeschichte #provenienz