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Linear B has roughly 200 signs, divided into syllabic signs with phonetic values and ideograms with semantic values.

The representations and naming of these signs has been standardized by a series of international colloquia starting with the first in Paris in 1956.

After the third meeting in 1961 at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, a standard proposed primarily by Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ( 1918 – 2011 ), became known as the Wingspread Convention, which was adopted by a new organization, the Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes ( CIPEM ), affiliated in 1970 by the fifth colloquium with UNESCO.

Colloquia continue: the 13th occurred in 2010 in Paris.