Preferred label

Repair manipulation               

Alternative label

Interventions; Conservation manipulations; Repair; Restoration Manipulations; Mends; Intervention

Scope note

A physical alteration performed on a writing substrate in order to stabilize or restore an artifact, or increase its longevity.         

Parent concept

Manipulation        

uh-linked-data/concept/327        

Related concept 

Conservation        

uh-linked-data/concept/460

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/426