- Creation and Development of the Title Page in the Time of the Incunable and Early Printing
- Internet Publication about the Title Page at the Time of the Incunable
- BMBF Project Second product life - cycle strategies for high tech diveces to help small and medium-sized business innovate (second tech cycle)
Creation and Development of the Title Page in the Time of the Incunable and Early Printing
One of the greatest achievements of early printing is the development of an individual title page (or several introductory pages: front matter, front page, etc.). It serves a number of purposes, including: identification of author, text and publication; advertising cover for the text; and book introduction. The absence of title pages would render both academic bibliography and modern library cataloguing impossible.
There was a period of about five or six decades after the invention of the printing press in 1450 during which the title page, its positioning (right-hand side at the beginning of the book) and its contents were standardised. The author's name, the title of the work, the printer/publisher's stamp and title illustration were moved from different positions (e.g. colophon, incipit, explicit, introductory wood carving) to be printed on the title page. There they were given positions on the page relative to one another (layout). At the same time, the concept of a Sachtitel (a title used for sorting books) was developed.
In this project the creation and development of the title page between 1460 (first appearance of title pages) and 1530 (the introduction of definitive typology) will be investigated in detail. A number of different types of book and text will be considered, as well as books in various languages (regional and Latin). Texts from a broad range of regions (with different printers and trading relationships between areas) will be examined. This research will be carried out using a catalogue of early title pages.
This Erlangen Book Studies project was funded by the German Research Community from 1st January 2000 to 31st March 2002.
Internet Publication about the Title Page at the Time of the Incunable
The main purpose of the Book Studies research project "Creation and Development of the Title Page in the Time of the Incunable and Early Printing" was to create a database containing the title and key pages of the studied books as images, with accompanying bibliographical information.
This database is available to interested Book Studies academics and researchers in the field of early printing at http://inkunabeln.ub.uni-koeln.de/titleblatt. This is the website of the "Distributed digital incunable library" project.
This Erlangen Book Studies project was funded by the German Research Community from 1st March 2003 to 31st May 2004.
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BMBF Project Second product life-cycle strategies for high tech devices to help small and medium-sized business innovate (second tech cycle)
What influence do high tech mobile devices have on the ability of businesses to innovate? How can the transfer of technology and knowledge be organised in a second product life-cycle strategy? How can we generate innovation in target companies with the help of transferred knowledge and technologies?
The Second Tech Cycle research project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the European Social Fund, strives to find answers to these questions.
The "Second Tech Cycle" project is considered an innovation concept. This allows it to bring high tech mobile devices to many of the numerous small and medium-sized companies in Europe, thereby unlocking their innovation potential. This should put companies in the position to realise innovative products and processes more quickly.
The role of the Erlangen Book Studies department in this interdisciplinary project is to try out innovation concepts with medium-sized business partners in the publishing industry. The concepts are tested to see how effective they are at improving productivity and services at the businesses. The project is managed by the Information Systems III department at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Overall Project Leader
Professor Michael Amberg
Project Leader in Book Studies department
Professor Christoph Bläsi
Researcher
Dr Axel Kuhn
Publications
Bläsi, Christoph: Mobile IT in kleinen und mittleren Medienunternehmen zur Prozess- und Serviceverbesserung. In: Ball, Rafael (Hrsg.): Wissenschaftskommunikation der Zukunft (Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich, Reihe Bibliothek, Band 18). Jülich 2007, S. 135–143.
Bodendorf, Freimut / Binner, Simone / Hamper, Andreas: Mobile Vernetzung in der medizinischen Pflege. In: Amberg, Michael / Lang, Michael (Hrsg.): Smartphones und mobile Applikationen – Geschäftspotenziale, Technologiemanagement, Fallbeispiele. Düsseldorf 2011, S. 279–286.
Bodendorf, Freimut / Binner, Simone: Vorgehensmodell zum Einsatz mobiler Lösungen bei KMU. In: Amberg, Michael / Lang, Michael (Hrsg.): Smartphones und mobile Applikationen – Geschäftspotenziale, Technologiemanagement, Fallbeispiele. Düsseldorf 2011, S. 357–366.
Füller, J. / Möslein, K. M. / Hutter, K. / Haller, J. B. A.: Evaluation Games – How to Make the Crowd your Jury. In: K.-P. Fähnrich & B. Franczyk (Hrsg.): Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI 175), Proceedings of the “Informatik 2010: Service Science – Neue Perspektiven für die Informatik”. Leipzig 2010, S. 955–960.
Haller, Jörg / Möslein, Kathrin: Innovationsbewertung mit Hilfe mobiler Endgeräte. In: Amberg, Michael / Lang, Michael (Hrsg.): Smartphones und mobile Applikationen – Geschäftspotenziale, Technologiemanagement, Fallbeispiele. Düsseldorf 2011, S. 153–176.
Kalsperger, Maria / Wilbers, Karl: Szenarien für „M-Learning“ in der beruflichen Bildung. In: Amberg, Michael / Lang, Michael (Hrsg.): Smartphones und mobile Applikationen – Geschäftspotenziale, Technologiemanagement, Fallbeispiele. Düsseldorf 2011, S. 287–304.
Kuhn, Axel / Bläsie Christoph: Unterstützung kreativer Prozesse in Verlagen durch mobile Technologien. In: Amberg, Michael / Lang, Michael (Hrsg.): Smartphones und mobile Applikationen – Geschäftspotenziale, Technologiemanagement, Fallbeispiele. Düsseldorf 2011, S. 247–278.
Maryschock, Markus / Schöffski, Oliver: Innovativer Einsatz von Smartphones im Gesundheitswesen. In: Amberg, Michael / Lang, Michael (Hrsg.): Smartphones und mobile Applikationen – Geschäftspotenziale, Technologiemanagement, Fallbeispiele. Düsseldorf 2011, S. 305–328.
Möslein, Kathrin / Haller, Jörg / Bullinger, Angelika: Open Evaluation : Ein IT-basierter Ansatz für die Bewertung innovativer Konzepte. In: HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 273(2010), S. 21–34.
Möslein, Kathrin / Haller, Jörg / Bullinger, Angelika: Open Evaluation: IT für das Innovationsmanagement. In: Wirtschaftsinformatik und Management (2010), S. 24–33.
Thiessen, Inke: Marktplätze für mobile Anwendungen. In: Amberg, Michael / Lang, Michael (Hrsg.): Smartphones und mobile Applikationen – Geschäftspotenziale, Technologiemanagement, Fallbeispiele. Düsseldorf 2011, S. 33–56.
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