Ligatus Summer School schedule 2021

Week 1 (20-24 September), European Bookbinding 1450-1830 (Nicholas Pickwoad)
Monday, 20 September 2021
10:00 – 11:30 Session 1: Introduction; How to date bindings; Finishing tools;Aggregate dating; The medieval legacy.
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 2: Illustrations of binderies; Books in sheets; Endleaves.
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.00 Examination of books
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 18.00 Examination of books
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
10:00 – 11:30 Session 3: Stitched books; Sewing techniques; Greek-style bindings.
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 4: Recessed supports; Deceptive practices; Hollow backs; Spine shape; Edge treatment; Spine linings.
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.00 Examination of books
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 18.00 Examination of books
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
10:00 – 11:30 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.
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 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.
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.00 Examination of books
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 18.00 Examination of books
Thursday, 23 September 2021
10:00 – 11:30 Session 7: Boards - wood, sca'board, laminated boards, paper boardsr; board-attachment; endleaf/board attachment.
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 8: Endbands, worked and stuck-on.
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.00 Examination of books
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 18.00 Examination of books
Friday, 24 September 2021
10:00 – 11:30 Session 9: Uncovered bindings in boards; Covering materials; Covering techniques; Half and quarter bindings.
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 10: Account-books; Economy measures; School books; Portable books; Titling and shelving .
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.00 Examination of books
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 18.00 Examination of books
Week 2 (27 September-1 October): Identifying and Recording Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean (Georgios Boudalis and Athanasios Velios)
Monday, 27 September 2021
10.00 – 11.30 A common start: Bookbindings around the Mediterranean in the first ten centuries of the Christian Era.
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 13:30 Introduction to Byzantine bookbindings.
13:30 – 14:30 Break
14.30 – 16.00 Free-text records, structured records, recommendations, schemas
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Schema development (outline – any text editor)
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
10.00 – 11.30 Endleaves and Sewing of the gatherings
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 13:30 Boards and board attachment
13:30 – 14:30 Break
14.30 – 16.00 XML, RelaxNG, validation
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Schema development (XML – oXygen)
18:00 – 19.30 Schema development (XML – oXygen)
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
10.00 – 11.30 Spine lining, edge trimming and edge decoration
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 13:30 Endbands
13:30 – 14:30 Break
14.30 – 16.00 SKOS: Getty vocabularies and Language of Bindings thesaurus
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Linked Data, RDF, URIs, CIDOC-CRM
18:00 – 19.30 Linked Data, RDF, URIs, CIDOC-CRM
Thursday, 30 September 2021
10.00 – 11.30 Fastenings and Markers
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 13:30 Covering and Decoration
13:30 – 14:30 Break
14.30 – 16.00 CRM mapping (3M editor)
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 CRM mapping (3M editor)
18:00 – 19.30 CRM mapping (3M editor)
Friday, 1 October 2021
10.00 – 11.30 Examination of books (Aristotelion University Library)
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 13:30 Examination of books (Aristotelion University Library)
13:30 – 14:30 Break
14.30 – 16.00 CRM mapping (3M editor)
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 ResearchSpace integration (3M / ResearchSpace)