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1. Questionnaire – answers to questions asked about some of the research materials, which were used to derive the practice hierarchy.
2. Practice Categorisation – a spreadsheet ordering the practices identified from the questionnaire answers and assessing the impact that IT has had on them.
3. Practice Hierarchy – image files containing the process hierarchy in single diagrams for both the pre-Icon Age and in the Icon Age.
4. Expanded References – a single document listing all the references in ‘Collecting in the Icon Age’ and the locations in the referenced texts which are being referred to.

This set of Questionnaire answers provides the base material for the analysis of Collection Practices described in the book ‘Collecting in the Icon Age’. The book uses a variety of research materials from both authors – Paul Wilson and Peter Tolmie – but this questionnaire has only been applied to the Wilson collections.

This Practice Categorisation Spreadsheet puts the practices identified from the questionnaire answers in order, and assesses the impact that IT has had on them.

These files provide the whole Collecting Practice Hierarchy in a single diagram. One file contains the Pre-Icon Age Hierarchy and the other contains the Hierarchy in the Icon Age.

The references in the book ‘Collecting in the Icon Age’ (citia) are at the end of each chapter and without the page number of where the referenced text is located. This Expanded References document combines all the references together into a single, alphabetically-ordered set complete with the number of the page they appear in citia AND the relevant location in the referenced work AND part of the text being referenced, for example, “p268 in citia: p75 (The application of…)”.

p268 in citia is the page number in the book Collecting in the Icon Age                            p75 is the page number of the work being referenced                                                (The application of…) is the start of the text being referenced.

An internet link to the referenced text is also provided where available.                    Printed errors in the citia text are identified in the expanded references document in italics prefaced by ‘NB’.