The 1962 discovery of one of the best-preserved examples of a late-medieval ship of the type cog in Bremen, and its conservation and presentation at the German Maritime Museum (Bremen Cog / DSM Bremerhaven) entail a continuous responsibility to foster research in naval history, material culture and the conservation of waterlogged wood. As one of our most essential exhi-bition pieces the Bremen Cog is an anchor for a future initiative of collaborative research in maritime culture: The already well-established international, interdisciplinary research relations regarding cog-type ships form an ideal foundation for experimentally co-developing a collabo-rative Digital Knowledge Platform.
With this international workshop as a starting event, the German Maritime Museum seeks to bring together scholars from an interdisciplinary range of research fields and topics for an up-date on the current state of research on such finds of our maritime cultural heritage. And it especially invites participants from institutions that would possibly be interested in collaborat-ing on the development of this Digital Knowledge Platform.
The workshop is open to a wide range of academic and research contexts. Talk proposals which express an interest in interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome.
Topics addressed in the workshop will include the following:
CONSERVATION
- methods and challenges
e. g. analysis of the conservation of waterlogged wood
ARCHAEOLOGY
- maritime material culture in context
e. g. ship artillery, shoes, ceramics, wickerwork, tools in comparison with picture-sources, finds from onshore sites, trade and merchandise
- ship-/boatbuilding
e. g. caulking, sails, rigging, naval architecture
- mensuration and gauging
- shipyards
NATURAL SCIENCES
- materials used and their environmental aspects
e. g. wood, hemp, wool, moss, leather, pitch, tar, iron
LINGUISTICS
- terminology
e. g. ships and materials in contemporary sources and different languages
HISTORY
- trade and merchant-guilds
DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION
- documentation and reconstruction of ships/finds