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3D Visualization of Historical Bookbinding Structures

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Alberto Campagnolo
Alberto Campagnolo

Presentation given at the Graduate Student Colloquium, Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2009, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 11 June 2009.

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3D Visualization of Historical Bookbinding StructuresGraduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009,University of Victoria, BC, CanadaAlberto CampagnoloCandidate: MA in Digital Culture and TechnologyKing’s College Londonalberto.campagnolo@gmail.comalberto.campagnolo@kcl.ac.uk
Research questionsWhat are the advantages of a three-dimensional visualization of bookbinding structures over the usual methods for the recording of these structures?How can this be achieved?11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC2
Bookbinding structuresThere are many ways in which the pages of a codex can be bound together and attached to the cover.Different cultures have developed different kinds of bookbinding structures.Different structures have appeared in different ages.We don’t have many descriptions of how books were bound; the items themselves are the sole witnesses.11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC3Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Ms patr. 5
Archaeology of the bookTraditionally the study of books as artefacts was focusedon the textand on the decoration of the bindingsDuring the 20th century a new interest in the art of bookbinding was set in motionArchaeology of the book and history of bookbinding structures11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC4©George Boudalis 2006
Archaeology of the bookThe researcher examines the artefact in the manner in which it was constructedData are collected in a way that would make it possible to reconstruct the objectTerminologies can prove to be hesitant, partial, and conflicting when dealing with complex structures11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC5Drawings generally accompany the collected data because considered self-explanatory for complex three-dimensional structures ©George Boudalis 2006
Examples of structures11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC6©George Boudalis 2006©George Boudalis 2006©George Boudalis 2006©George Boudalis 2006©George Boudalis 2006
Towards a standard of description11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC7http://www.ligatus.org.uk/XML-based description and glossary of Byzantine bookbinding structures derived from Dr Pickwoad efforts to consistently describe bindingsTowards a 3D Visualization of bookbinding structures11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC8Using snippets of the Ligatus XML description of a bookbinding
Transforming it into an X3D-based visualization to enhance communication Examples of 3D visualization of booksBooks are 3D objectsThere have been some attempts to visualize books in 3D within a computer environment with three main approaches:3D electronic workspaces (e.g. WebBook and Web Forager)3D virtual books (e.g. 3D Book Visualizer and 3Book)Museum-oriented digital books/facsimiles (e.g. Turning the pagesâ„¢)11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC9
Examples of 3D visualization of books11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC103BookWebBook3D Book VisualizerTurning the pagesâ„¢
ConclusionsBookbinding structures are important aspects of the history of the book and provide very useful information about the history of each object
Data can be easily organized into hierarchical structures and databases, but in many instances it is necessary to resort to drawings or other kinds of visualization11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC11The use of computer technologies to record and visualize historical bookbinding structures is an important tool for researchers that can add value to the original items themselves Selected Bibliography11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC12CARD S. K., HONG L., MACKINLAY J.D., HUAI-HSIN Chi E., 3Book: a scalable 3D virtual book, in Human Factors in Computing Systems: Proceedings of the CHI '04 Conference, Vienna, 2004, pp. 1095-98CARD S.K., ROBERTSON G.G., YORK W., The WebBook and the Web Forager: An Information Workspace for the World-Wide Web, in Human Factors in Computing Systems: Proceedings of the CHI '96 Conference, New York, ACM, 1996. CHU Y., BAINBRIDGE D., JONES M., WITTEN I.H., Realistic books: a bizarre homage to an obsolete medium?, in Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, Tucson, AZ, 2004, pp. 78-86DEBRAY R., The Book as Symbolic Object, in The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffrey Nunberg, Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1996, pp. 139-51DEEGAN, Marilyn, and TANNER, Simon, Conversion of Primary Sources, in A companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2004, pp. 488-504. DONDIS, Donis A., A primer of visual literacy, Cambridge, MA, MIT press, 1974.DUGUID P., Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book, in The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffrey Nunberg, Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1996, pp. 63-101.IVINS, William M., Jr. Prints and Visual Communication, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1953.LANDOW G. P., Twenty minutes into the future, or how are we moving beyond the book?, in The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffrey Nunberg, Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1996, pp. 209-37.PICKWOAD, Nicholas, The condition survey of the manuscripts in the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, «The Paper Conservator», Vol. 28, 2004, pp. 33-61.ROBERTS C. H., SKEAT T. C., The Birth of the Codex, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983SHARPE, John L. (ed.), Bibliographia 14, elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia. Roger Powell, the complete binder, Turnhout Belgium, Brepols, 1996. SHARPE, John L., Observation on Data Collection. Drawing and Recording Information, in Contributi e testimonianze, a cura di Maria Cristina Misiti, Spoleto, Accademia Spoletina, 2000. VELIOS, Athanasios, PICKWOAD, Nicholas, The Database of the St. Catherine’s Library Conservation Project in Sinai, Egypt, Conference Paper, IS&T Archiving 2005 Conference, April 26-29, 2005, pp. 73-8.VELIOS, Athanasios, PICKWOAD, Nicholas, Current use and future development of the database of the St. Catherine’s Library Conservation Project «The Paper Conservator», Vol. 29, 2005, pp. 39-53.
Questions?11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC13alberto.campagnolo@gmail.comalberto.campagnolo@kcl.ac.uk
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  • 1. 3D Visualization of Historical Bookbinding StructuresGraduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009,University of Victoria, BC, CanadaAlberto CampagnoloCandidate: MA in Digital Culture and TechnologyKing’s College Londonalberto.campagnolo@gmail.comalberto.campagnolo@kcl.ac.uk
  • 2. Research questionsWhat are the advantages of a three-dimensional visualization of bookbinding structures over the usual methods for the recording of these structures?How can this be achieved?11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC2
  • 3. Bookbinding structuresThere are many ways in which the pages of a codex can be bound together and attached to the cover.Different cultures have developed different kinds of bookbinding structures.Different structures have appeared in different ages.We don’t have many descriptions of how books were bound; the items themselves are the sole witnesses.11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC3Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Ms patr. 5
  • 4. Archaeology of the bookTraditionally the study of books as artefacts was focusedon the textand on the decoration of the bindingsDuring the 20th century a new interest in the art of bookbinding was set in motionArchaeology of the book and history of bookbinding structures11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC4©George Boudalis 2006
  • 5. Archaeology of the bookThe researcher examines the artefact in the manner in which it was constructedData are collected in a way that would make it possible to reconstruct the objectTerminologies can prove to be hesitant, partial, and conflicting when dealing with complex structures11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC5Drawings generally accompany the collected data because considered self-explanatory for complex three-dimensional structures ©George Boudalis 2006
  • 6. Examples of structures11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC6©George Boudalis 2006©George Boudalis 2006©George Boudalis 2006©George Boudalis 2006©George Boudalis 2006
  • 7. Towards a standard of description11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC7http://www.ligatus.org.uk/XML-based description and glossary of Byzantine bookbinding structures derived from Dr Pickwoad efforts to consistently describe bindingsTowards a 3D Visualization of bookbinding structures11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC8Using snippets of the Ligatus XML description of a bookbinding
  • 8. Transforming it into an X3D-based visualization to enhance communication Examples of 3D visualization of booksBooks are 3D objectsThere have been some attempts to visualize books in 3D within a computer environment with three main approaches:3D electronic workspaces (e.g. WebBook and Web Forager)3D virtual books (e.g. 3D Book Visualizer and 3Book)Museum-oriented digital books/facsimiles (e.g. Turning the pagesâ„¢)11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC9
  • 9. Examples of 3D visualization of books11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC103BookWebBook3D Book VisualizerTurning the pagesâ„¢
  • 10. ConclusionsBookbinding structures are important aspects of the history of the book and provide very useful information about the history of each object
  • 11. Data can be easily organized into hierarchical structures and databases, but in many instances it is necessary to resort to drawings or other kinds of visualization11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC11The use of computer technologies to record and visualize historical bookbinding structures is an important tool for researchers that can add value to the original items themselves Selected Bibliography11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC12CARD S. K., HONG L., MACKINLAY J.D., HUAI-HSIN Chi E., 3Book: a scalable 3D virtual book, in Human Factors in Computing Systems: Proceedings of the CHI '04 Conference, Vienna, 2004, pp. 1095-98CARD S.K., ROBERTSON G.G., YORK W., The WebBook and the Web Forager: An Information Workspace for the World-Wide Web, in Human Factors in Computing Systems: Proceedings of the CHI '96 Conference, New York, ACM, 1996. CHU Y., BAINBRIDGE D., JONES M., WITTEN I.H., Realistic books: a bizarre homage to an obsolete medium?, in Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, Tucson, AZ, 2004, pp. 78-86DEBRAY R., The Book as Symbolic Object, in The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffrey Nunberg, Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1996, pp. 139-51DEEGAN, Marilyn, and TANNER, Simon, Conversion of Primary Sources, in A companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2004, pp. 488-504. DONDIS, Donis A., A primer of visual literacy, Cambridge, MA, MIT press, 1974.DUGUID P., Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book, in The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffrey Nunberg, Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1996, pp. 63-101.IVINS, William M., Jr. Prints and Visual Communication, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1953.LANDOW G. P., Twenty minutes into the future, or how are we moving beyond the book?, in The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffrey Nunberg, Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1996, pp. 209-37.PICKWOAD, Nicholas, The condition survey of the manuscripts in the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, «The Paper Conservator», Vol. 28, 2004, pp. 33-61.ROBERTS C. H., SKEAT T. C., The Birth of the Codex, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983SHARPE, John L. (ed.), Bibliographia 14, elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia. Roger Powell, the complete binder, Turnhout Belgium, Brepols, 1996. SHARPE, John L., Observation on Data Collection. Drawing and Recording Information, in Contributi e testimonianze, a cura di Maria Cristina Misiti, Spoleto, Accademia Spoletina, 2000. VELIOS, Athanasios, PICKWOAD, Nicholas, The Database of the St. Catherine’s Library Conservation Project in Sinai, Egypt, Conference Paper, IS&T Archiving 2005 Conference, April 26-29, 2005, pp. 73-8.VELIOS, Athanasios, PICKWOAD, Nicholas, Current use and future development of the database of the St. Catherine’s Library Conservation Project «The Paper Conservator», Vol. 29, 2005, pp. 39-53.
  • 12. Questions?11/06/2009Graduate Student Colloquium presentation DHSI 2009, University of Victoria, BC13alberto.campagnolo@gmail.comalberto.campagnolo@kcl.ac.uk