Comments for jeff peachey

Comment on Ngrams: Book Conservation, Art Conservation, Book Restoration, Art Restoration by Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:54:45 +0000

Thanks, Jeff, for sharing this information! It would be interesting to complicate this by adding in terms such as environmental conservation.

Comment on Ngrams: Book Conservation, Art Conservation, Book Restoration, Art Restoration by Jeff Peachey

Jeff Peachey — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:11:04 +0000

Yea, also interesting it doesn’t seem to appear in the 19th century. Rebinding does, though.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=rebinding%2Cbook+conservation%2Cbook+restoration%2Cart+conservation%2Cart+restoration&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

Comment on Ngrams: Book Conservation, Art Conservation, Book Restoration, Art Restoration by Peter Verheyen

Peter Verheyen — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:39:53 +0000

Time sink indeed… All in good ways. Added the terms collections conservation, library preservation, book preservation, and mass digitization to the mix revealing steep drops in all except the latter shooting upwards. Many very interesting ways this could be played with, ahem, I mean used as a tool.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mass+digitization%2Ccollections+conservation%2Cbook+preservation%2Clibrary+preservation%2Cbook+conservation%2Cbook+restoration%2Cart+conservation%2Cart+restoration&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

That said, I do think the field is in a period of contraction, not because the need isn’t there, but because collections are being look at differently in terms of need and priority. The “biggest loser” will be the circulating collections but that’s not all bad in my book and if done wisely could free up resources to treat the local and unique.

Comment on Ngrams: Book Conservation, Art Conservation, Book Restoration, Art Restoration by Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:44:16 +0000

I find it interesting if you throw in the “working man’s” term “book repair”. From the 1930s on it rides well above all the other expressions, except Peter’s bookbinding, till the 1980s, and then plummets in the 1990s.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=book+repair%2C%2Cbook+conservation%2Cbook+restoration%2Cart+conservation%2Cart+restoration&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

Comment on Ngrams: Book Conservation, Art Conservation, Book Restoration, Art Restoration by Peter Verheyen

Peter Verheyen — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:09:01 +0000

Dang, pleasant time sink/serious tool is right. Welcome to the world of digital humanities and all that rot. I threw bookbinding into mix and got the results below. Also artist’s/artists books with equally interesting results. Definitely see myself spending more time with this.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bookbinding%2C+book+conservation%2Cbook+restoration%2Cart+conservation%2Cart+restoration&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

Scary, truly scary. Thanks for sharing!