# From Words to Diagrams: Visualization of Historical Bookbinding

Alberto Campagnolo discusses an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures. Researchers use both images (pictures and drawings) and verbal descriptions (words) to document artifacts. In the last few decades, the recording and management of documentation data about material objects, including bookbindings, has switched from paper-based archives to databases, but sketches and diagrams are a form of documentation still carried out mostly by hand. Diagrams can present unique information, but often also serve as a visual representation of information recorded in the written documentation. He describes a methodology to harness verbal information in an XML database and automatically generate standardized and scholarly-sound visual representations.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: Science, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690485/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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