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Smell of heritage: a framework for the identification, analysis and archival of historic odours
Cecilia Bembibre & Matija Strlič
DOI 10.1186/s40494-016-0114-1CLM-HISTORICBOOK-001 · VERIFIED
Documenting the smell of historic books
A heritage-science study documented the smell of historic paper by combining visitor descriptions of a historic book extract, a sensory evaluation in a historic library and chemical sampling of volatiles from a historic book and library, producing a Historic Book Odour Wheel.
One case study of historic paper, proposed as a framework for recording heritage smells; other collections and libraries differ.
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Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 349.