Description
The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) is intended to provide a consistent and agreed terminology to be used by anybody working with historic books, such as conservators, palaeographers, cataloguers, librarians, historians, book collectors, rare book dealers. Offering this vocabulary in a layered structure, the thesaurus is developed to encourage further research in book history. It can be used as a reference to concepts to describe bookbindings unambiguously in all cataloguing activities. It can also be used as a didactic tool for learning about book structures and materials, the frequency of the occurrence of bookbinding components or other aspects connected with the book trade.
Authors
Nicholas Pickwoad (Pi), Martin Doerr (Researcher), Maria Theodoridou (Researcher), Scott Renton (Data manager/owner), Athanasios Velios (Data manager/owner), Nicholas Pickwoad (Developer), Aurelie Martin (Developer), Alberto Campagnolo (Developer), Athanasios Velios (Developer), Editorial Board Members: Josefin Bergmark Jimenez (Other), George Boudalis (Other), Almuth Corbach (Other), Per Cullhead (Other), Elodie Leveque (Other), Christine Megowan (Other), Nicholas Pickwoad (Other), Silvia Pugliese (Other), Karin Scheper (Other), Athanasios Velios
Translators: Anne Eidsfeldt (Other), Nina Hesselberg-Wang (Other), Gurmukhi Panjabi (Other), Jasdip Singh Dhillon (Other), Satnam Singh Sethi (Other), Thierry Aubry (Other), Nina Mourat (Other), Eric Laforest (Other), Coralie Barbe (Other), Cédric Lelievre (Other), Nolwenn Carimalo (Other), Isabelle Chavanne (Other), Bernard Gallois (Other), Justine Provino (Other), Nina Deangelis (Other), Thais Naudin (Other), Elodie Léveque (Other), Dagrada Elisabeth (Other), Cormier Julie (Other), Lucie Moruzzis (Other), Morgane Royo (Other), Marie-Hélène BOINI (Other), Ferrand Clara (Other), Isabelle Scappazzoni (Other), Fiona-Ashley Koumessi (Other), Morgane Pieters (Other), Juliette Laluque (Other), Simon Raffin (Other), Cassandre Deumié-Delacout (Other), Edita Keršulytė (Other), Ieva Rusteikaitė (Other), Jolita Liškevičienė (Other), Kristina Lukoševičienė (Other), Sigitas Tamulis (Other), Viktorija Vaitkevičiūtė (Other), Martha Romero (Other), María Fernanda Martínez Rocha (Other)
Affiliation
University of the Arts London (Lead Research Organisation), University of Edinburgh, Museotechniki Ltd, National Trust
