SRC-HISTORICBOOK-2017 · PRIMARY

Smell of heritage: a framework for the identification, analysis and archival of historic odours

Cecilia Bembibre & Matija Strlič · Heritage Science

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Published2017-04-07

DOI10.1186/s40494-016-0114-1

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historic paperhistoric libraryolfactory heritageodour wheel

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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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Permanent identifier smellbook:source:historic-book-odour-2017 · Graph record (JSON)

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 349.