Bookbinding descriptions in a linked data world: How the CIDOC-CRM can improve research in bookbinding history
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University of the Arts, London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 228
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- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Bookbindings Theoretical Approaches and Practical Solutions
- Publisher
- Brepols
- ISBN
- 9782503574981
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- “Bookbinding descriptions in a Linked Data world: How the CIDOC-CRM can improve research in bookbinding history” is a peer-reviewed chapter in the book Bookbindings: Theoretical Approaches and Practical Solutions, in Brepols ‘Bibliologia’ series, demonstrating a new method for studying bookbinding history. This contribution begins with a discussion around traditional methods employed by bookbinding historians. Currently, these rely on dispersed observations of collections and adoption of beliefs held by fellow scholars. Such processes are prone to: a) perpetuating false beliefs, leading to terminological misunderstandings and b) limiting samples of observation, i.e. producing non-representative conclusions.
The chapter is the result of assessing practices in projects from other fields and identifying principles that offer solutions to problems of traditional methods in bookbinding history. It is also the result of revisiting familiar tools such as bookbinding survey forms and re-considering them using these principles. A process of formalising types of knowledge in bookbinding history led to the articulation of a pathway for implementing the new method. This was done by examining research from philosophy, and information and computer science in relation to the structure of academic reasoning and by articulating how such research can be applied to the study of bookbinding history. The chapter demonstrates how the problems of traditional scholarship methods can be overcome by using distributed resources and standards emerging from technologies collectively known as Linked Data.
This chapter establishes the role of the Language of Bindings thesaurus (an output from an AHRC-funded project with significant impact in the domain) in relation to Linked Data and within the scholarship of bookbinding history.
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