The collaborative project, Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, is a database to track the circulation of printed "Jewish books" that is currently hosted by Columbia University's Center for Teaching and Learning. Using provenance data gathered from handwritten notes in books, auction catalogs, correspondence via letters, and numerous other sources entered via trusted crowdsourcing, the project provides a database that allows researchers to track the circulation and intellectual movement of books printed prior to 1800 in Hebrew, other Jewish languages, and books in Latin and non-Jewish vernaculars with Judaica contents from the early modern era to today. Users are able to find information on the current physical copy of a book, its imprint, its travels, and more via the open source database for more than 17,000 "footprints".
(Description adapted from information on project website)
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The collaborative project, Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, is a database to track the circulation of printed "Jewish books" that is currently hosted by Columbia University's Center for Teaching and Learning. Using provenance data gathered from handwritten notes in books, auction catalogs, correspondence via letters, and numerous other sources entered via trusted crowdsourcing, the project provides a database that allows researchers to track the circulation and intellectual movement of books printed prior to 1800 in Hebrew, other Jewish languages, and books in Latin and non-Jewish vernaculars with Judaica contents from the early modern era to today. Users are able to find information on the current physical copy of a book, its imprint, its travels, and more via the open source database for more than 17,000 "footprints".
(Description adapted from information on project website)