In Zusammenarbeit mit mehreren amerikanischen Institutionen betreibt das Berliner Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG) eine digitale Bibliothek mit aufbereiteten Quellenwerken zur Geschichte der Mechanik (gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der amerikanischen National Science Foundation). "Numerous treatises on mechanics as well as other forms of documentation of mechanical knowledge and practices constitute the project corpus. Ongoing research at the MPIWG on the long-term development of mental models of mechanical thinking and their manifestation in technical terminologies, inferences of practitioners, engineers, and scientists plays an important role in the testbed design. The testbed also requires a powerful, linguistically based information technology for handling the variety of languages occurring in the source materials. Source documents are being prepared with tools such as automatic morphological analysis of Latin, Greek and Italian, and semantic linking of sources to general and technical, modern and historical dictionaries and reference works."