Summer School map
Please note that most of the seminars will take place in room F 2.10 in the Donau University Krems. Information about visits to libraries will be provided.
Provisional schedule
| Week 1 (16-20 September), European Bookbinding 1450-1830 (Nicholas Pickwoad) | |
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| Monday, 16 September 2019 | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | Session 1: Introduction; How to date bindings; Finishing tools;Aggregate dating; The medieval legacy. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Session 2: Illustrations of binderies; Books in sheets; Endleaves. |
| 12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch Break |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Examination of books (tbc) |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Examination of books (tbc) |
| Tuesday, 17 September 2019 (travel to Kremsmünster) | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | Session 3: Stitched books; Sewing techniques; Greek-style bindings. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Session 4: Recessed supports; Deceptive practices; Hollow backs; Spine shape; Edge treatment; Spine linings. |
| 12.00 – 14.30 | Lunch Break |
| 14.30 – 16.00 | Examination of books |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Break |
| 16.30 – 18.00 | Examination of books |
| Wednesday, 18 September 2019 | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | 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. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | 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. |
| 12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch Break |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Examination of books (Melk) |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Examination of books (Melk) |
| Thursday, 19 September 2019 | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | Session 7: Boards - wood, sca'board, laminated boards, paper boardsr; board-attachment; endleaf/board attachment. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Session 8: Endbands, worked and stuck-on. |
| 12.00 – 14.30 | Lunch Break |
| 14.30 – 16.00 | Examination of books (Zwettl) |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Break |
| 16.30 – 18.00 | Examination of books (Zwettl) |
| Friday, 20 September 2019 | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | Session 9: Uncovered bindings in boards; Covering materials; Covering techniques; Half and quarter bindings. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Session 10: Account-books; Economy measures; School books; Portable books; Titling and shelving . |
| 12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch Break |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Examination of books (Krems archives) |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Examination of books (Krems archives) |
| Week 2 (23-27 September): Identifying and Recording Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean (Georgios Boudalis and Athanasios Velios) | |
| Monday, 23 September 2019 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | A common start: Bookbindings around the Mediterranean in the first ten centuries of the Christian Era. |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Introduction to Byzantine bookbindings. |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Free-text records, structured records, recommendations, schemas |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Schema development (outline) |
| Tuesday, 24 September 2019 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Endleaves and Sewing of the gatherings |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Boards and board attachment |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | XML, RelaxNG, validation |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Schema development (XML) |
| Wednesday, 25 September 2019 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Spine lining, edge trimming and edge decoration |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Endbands |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | SKOS: Getty vocabularies and Language of Bindings thesaurus |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Linked Data, RDF, URIs, CIDOC-CRM |
| Thursday, 26 September 2019 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Fastenings and Markers |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Covering and Decoration |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Bookbinding recording and inputting in XML (using books from local collections) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | CRM mapping workshop |
| Friday, 27 September 2019 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Bookbinding recording (Ligatus schema, books from local collections) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Bookbinding recording (Ligatus schema, books from local collections) |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Bookbinding recording (Ligatus schema, books from local collections) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Examination of books |