The monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai, Egypt, holds a unique library collection. Ligatus is offering conservation support through the St. Catherine's Project.
A reference tool for the terminology of pre-industrial bookbinding. The thesaurus is based on SKOS.
Summer school courses on the history of bookbinding and on the identification and documentation of binding structures.
A comprehensive bibliography about historic bookbinding and book conservation including all Ligatus publications.
Linked Conservation Data is a new project funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council on Conservation Documentation and Linked Data.
Ligatus, in collaboration with specialists in the field, is currently developing a digital tool for identifying decorated papers. This project aims to compile a database of described and photographed decorated papers in order to provide a reference collection and a tool to assist any user (expert or non-specialist) in the identification and recording of decorated papers.
Dr Christopher Clarkson was a leading authority in medieval bookbinding. The aim of this project is to digitize his slides and create associated metadata for each.