Ligatus summer school schedule 2011

Week 1: EUROPEAN BOOKBINDING 1500 - 1800 (Nicholas Pickwoad)
Monday, 19 September 2011
9.00 – 10.30	Session 1: Introduction; How to date bindings; Finishing tools;Aggregate dating; The medieval legacy.
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 12.30	Session 2: Illustrations of binderies; Books in sheets; Endleaves.
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch Break
14.15 – 15.30	Examination of books from the Biblioteca del Museo Correr
15.30 - 16.00	Break
16.00 - 17.00	Examination of books from the Biblioteca del Museo Correr
18.00 – 19.00	Lecture by Neil Harris: “Binding evidence and the verticalising of the book”
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
9.00 – 10.30	Session 3: Stitched books; Sewing techniques; Greek-style bindings.
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 12.30	Session 4: Recessed supports; Deceptive practices; Hollow backs; Spine shape; Edge treatment; Spine linings.
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.30	Examination of books from the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana.
15.30 - 16.00	Break
16.00 - 17.30	Examination of books from the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
9.00 – 10.30	Session 5: Temporary/cheap bindings; Sewn textblocks; Sewn supported in drawn-on covers; Textblocks with extra-thick endleaves; Linkstitch bindings; Sewing through pierced supports; Longstitch; sewn through wrapper with external supports; Lace-attached bindings; Tacketed bindings.
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 12.30	Session 6: Laced-case bindings in parchment and paper; Laced-case bindings with cover linings; Laced-case bindings with boards; Decorated laced-case parchment bindings; Case bindings.
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30	Examination of books from the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana.
15.30 - 16.00	Break
16.00 - 17.30	Examination of books from the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana.
Thursday, 22 September 2011
9.00 – 10.30	Session 7: Boards - wood, sca'board, laminated boards, paper boardsr; board-attachment; endleaf/board attachment.
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 12.30	Session 8: Endbands, worked and stuck-on.
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch Break
15.30 - 16.00	Examination of books from the Biblioteca di San Francesco della Vigna.
16.00 - 17.30	Break
	Examination of books from the Biblioteca di San Francesco della Vigna.
17.30 - 18.00	Break
18.00 – 18.30	Lecture by Alberto Campagnolo: “Linear recording of binding features”
Friday, 23 September 2011
9.00 – 10.30	Session 9: Uncovered bindings in boards; Covering materials; Covering techniques; Half and quarter bindings.
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 12.30	Session 10: Account-books; Economy measures; School books; Portable books; Titling and shelving .
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch Break
14.00 - 15.30	Discussion: Implications of research into binding structure for conservation strategies.
15.30 - 16.00	Break
16.00 - 17.30	Discussion
Week 2: BYZANTINE BOOKBINDING and BOOKBINDING DOCUMENTATION (Georgios Boudalis and Athanasios Velios)
Monday, 26 September 2011
9.00 – 10.30	Introduction.
	Books and bookbinding in Byzantium
	The research done so far and some important research problems
	Bindings of the Eastern Mediterranean, The Coptic bidnings
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 - 12.30	The Syriac bindings
	The Georgian bindings
	The Armenian bindings
12.30 – 14.30	Break
14.30 – 16.00	Introduction to data structuring
	Data-structuring (tagged data)
	Data-structuring (tables)
	Your first book description (on paper)
	Semantic Web
	Data specification
	Importance of schemas (RelaxNG)
	Your first data structure (schema).
16.00 – 16.30	Break
16.30 – 18.00	Software tools for XML
	XML databases and XML native databases
	Major commercial packages – advantages
	Major open-source databases – advantages
	Software tools for interface development
	Web interfaces
	Java and other programming languages
	Developers – technical expertise you will need
	Database developers
	Database administration
	Interface developers
	Advertising for the correct people
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
9.00 – 10.30	Byzantine and post-Byzantine Bookbinding
	Endleaves
10.30-11.00	Break
11.00 - 13.00	Boards and Board attachment
	Spine lining
13.00 – 14.30	Break
14.30 – 16.00	Ligatus glossary of bookbinding terms
	Glossary structure
	Meaningless terms
	Deconstruction of a binding
	Hierarchies
	XML definitions
	Drupal content management system (setup, requirements, server-client model)
16.00 – 16.30	Break
16.30 – 17.30	Digital Photography
	Standard shots for bindings
	Shot setup
	RAW, golden thread target
	Processing – JPEG2000
	Metadata (Technical, Content)
17.30 – 18.00	Lecture by Alberto Campagnolo: “Automatic transformation of XML records to drawings”
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
9.00 -10.30	Edge trimming and edge decoration
	Endbands
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 12.30	Covering and decoration
	Fastenings
12.30 – 14.30	Examination of bindings from the collection of the biblioteca Marciana.
14.30 – 15.30	Break
15.30 – 17.00	Schema development
17.00 – 17.30	Break
17.30 – 19.00	Schema development
	Covering and decoration
Thursday, 29 September 2011
9.00-10.30	Bosses and other metallic elements
	Bookmarks
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 12.30	Why all these trouble? Case studies
13.00 – 14.30	Break
14.30 – 16.30	Schema development
	Boards
	Board attachment
	Spine lining
16.30 – 17.00	Break
17.00 – 18.30	Schema development
	Endbands
Friday, 30 September 2011
9.00 – 10.30	Schema development
10.30 – 10.45	Break
10.45 – 12.00	Schema development
12.00 – 13.00	Break
13.00 – 14.30	Bookbinding recording and inputting in the database (books from the library)
14.30 – 15.30	Break
15.30 – 17.00	Bookbinding recording and inputting in the database (books from the library)
17.00 – 17.30	Break
17.30 – 19.00	Bookbinding recording and inputting in the database (books from the library)