Velios, Athanasios (2008) Hierarchical recording of binding structures. In: 36th Conference of the American Institute of Conservation, 21-24 April 2008, Denver.
Type of Research: | Conference, Symposium or Workshop Item |
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Creators: | Velios, Athanasios |
Description: | The Ligatus research unit of the University of the Arts, London has undertaken the recording of the binding structures and materials of the manuscripts and early printed books from the library of the Saint Catherine Monastery in Sinai, Egypt. Conservators from many different countries have been engaged in both the examination of the books and the formation of a recording methodology for binding structures. About 4500 books have been examined one by one. The detail with which the recording was done resulted in a large amount of information about each book’s individual components. Organising this information has been a challenging task and a variety of data structuring models were assessed for storing the collected data. Our assessment showed that hierarchical data structuring is an efficient way to record binding information. In this paper, a recording methodology with XML hierarchies is presented, based on the experience from the Saint Catherine’s collection. |
Official Website: | http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=862&parentID=710 |
Additional Information (Publicly available): | Biography Research statement I am interested in the Semantic Web technologies and have been working with the Centre of Cultural Informatics at FORTH and a range of European partners for the development of a Thesaurus for bookbindings with the intention to produce a CIDOC based ontology for binding structures. Using the same technologies I am also working in the field of archiving with specific focus on artists' archives. I have proposed an archiving methodology called "Creative Archiving" as a way to interpret artists' ideas through their own papers. I have researched the work of the artist John Latham through analysis of his archive. I have a strong interest in the Drupal content management system as a programming platform and a web-appication delivery platform. |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | XML, early printed books, manuscripts, St. Catherine's Project |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Camberwell College of Arts Research Centres/Networks > LIGATUS Research Centre |
Date: | 21 March 2008 |
Related Websites: | http://www.ligatus.org.uk/ |
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Event Location: | Denver |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2013 12:39 |
Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2022 15:31 |
Item ID: | 5609 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/5609 |
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