Preferred label

Foundational model                

Alternative label

Scope note

A model that accurately replicates how a historic original would have worked, based on the evidence of an observational model and the process of making working models. A foundational model becomes the basis for simulacra, overlays, foldables, teaching models, prop models.        

Parent concept

Model        

uh-linked-data/concept/338        

Related concept  

Simulacrum       

uh-linked-data/concept/484        

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT        

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/158