Language of Bindings thesaurus

Athanasios VeliosNicholas Pickwoad

Aurelie Martin

Stitched structures

Multi-cultural developmentavoid language/tradition dominance

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Multi-cultural development

● English bookbinding structures are not dominant

Equivalence

● Exact match

FRENCH ITALIAN

ITALIAN ITALIAN

SPANISH GERMAN

ENGLISH FLEMISH

Equivalence

● Partial equivalence– e.g. brochure (french) – pamphlets

● Compound terms– e.g. αιγοπρόβατα (greek) – sheep and/or goats

Equivalence

● Partial equivalence– e.g. brochure (french) – pamphlets

● Compound terms– e.g. αιγοπρόβατα (greek) – sheep and/or goats

● Orphan terms– αιγοπρόβατα

● sheep● goats

Rapid developmentfunding available for two years

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Thesaurus sprints

● Get experts in one place● Intense 3 day workshops● Good volume of data

– lack of referencing

Thesaurus sprints

● Experts divided in teams

● Work on tasks for an hour● Team facilitators record discussions

– SKOS understanding important● Team reps meet to report / ask questions

Thesaurus sprints

● Experts divided in teams

● Work on tasks for an hour● Team facilitators record discussions

– SKOS understanding important● Team reps meet to report / ask questions

Progress

● Number of concepts relatively stable (~700)– Bookbinding manual publication

● First level of hierarchies complete– Reviewing others

● Thesaurus website up and running

scope note(longish)

scope note(longish)

hierarchyhierarchy

workflow basedon FORTH'sWebTMS

workflow basedon FORTH'sWebTMS

users canfollow termsusers can

follow terms

Interesting problemsplease help

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Positive negative

● Absence of a characteristic could be meaningful

● Create records of non-existing characteristics

Survey problems

● Data depends on observation– (Lack of) experience of surveyor– Weak survey method

Ioannes Copus, De fructibus libri quatuor, Paris: Christian Wechel, 1535

Nature of form

● Materials combined based on a technique● What is the result?

– e.g. thread and longstitch structure

"Unraveling ball of string" by Lewis Ronald - Own work.CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unraveling_ball_of_string.jpg

Gio. Felice Astolfi, Cento Avenimmento Meraviglioso, Venice, 1660

L’Epistole d’Ovidio in Terza Rima del Signor Angelo Rodolfini,

Macerata: Guiseppe Picini, 1682

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