On the seventh of August, an opening took place for the Educated Reader exhibition, which was produced as part of the NAKI project “Virtual Reconstruction of Scattered Book Collections”. The exhibition can be seen from 8 August–10 October at Kynžvart Chateau. The show presents educated readers of the last five centuries through several dozen books in which they left their records, notes and sketches. The margin notes and marks on the pages of the book represent a biography and a passport, in which the stamps, signatures and notes delineate stages of its life and the route of the travels the book undertook.

Since 26 April, the metadata field “Provenio ID” has been added in Wikidata, uniquely identifying owners of books recorded in the Provenio database. The free, multilingual, secondary database Wikidata collects structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world. Connecting Provenio and Wikidata will expand the circle of users and allow comparison with other databases, thereby also facilitating checking of data accuracy.

Before the advent of modern technology, books were practically the only source of transmitted information, through which an awareness of the development of human society was formed, and monastery libraries contained the oldest and rarest of these. Seventy years ago, the communists moved to destroy these extensive collections, the past of which we will never be able to fully reconstruct due to the irreversible losses. Since 13 April 2020, a virtual exhibition prepared by the Czech National Library as part of the NAKI project “Virtual reconstruction of sets of books” has presented this crackdown with the code name “K” (for “klášter”, i.