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Illustrated Examples - Conservation Recording, Documentation and Information Management
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Good conservation of our cultural heritage is based on informed decisions. The information needed to make these decisions is, in part, obtained through the use of documentation and recording tools. Knowledge of these tools and their use is readily available; however, many of the decision makers are unaware, uninformed, or unconvinced of their benefits. Several reasons for this include a misunderstanding of the tools and techniques or intimitation by the technology or language. This has long been an issue in the field of conservation. To address the knowledge gap, this volume highlights a wide variety of projects, tools, and techniques through case studies that demonstrate how conservation decisions were reached through the appropriate use of documentation. This collection balances technology, geography and site significance. Our methodology was simple: conduct an extensive and rigorous literature review to select examples that represent best practice for cultural heritage.
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This paper presents the objectives, activities, and achievements of an on going international initiative in the field of heritage conservation. This partnership was established by the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (Belgium), English Heritage (United Kingdom) it has developed to include the work of The Getty Conservation Institute (USA), University of Pennsylvania (USA), and Public Works (Canada). It provides unique hands-on heritage training by practitioners for student conservators and professionals.The Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation organizes a two year advanced master in conservation of monuments and sites. Also, the University of Pennsylvania organizes a two year graduate program on Historic Preservation.
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The contribution addresses the definition of a new standardised method for the documentation of the restoration process. In the frame of a conservation laboratory open to the public, the research drew up the guidelines for a documental and representative methods discussing the definition of a contemporary conservation praxis facing with digital technologies. The research stems from a restoration of a Polyptych, Madonna con Bambino, Santi e Apostoli by Vittore Crivelli, damaged by earthquake of 2016 and temporarily showcased at Pinacoteca of San Domenico in Fano (PU). The public could visit the workplace set up and use the experimental informative system created from conservative data and results of intervention. To do this, the general process of documentation has progressed in strong synergy with restoration work. Thanks to the collaboration between experts, the project has established a set of priorities in order to capitalise the global results and better communicate each phase of intervention. The content of the study focuses on identifying guidelines that would form a possible framework for documentation useful for conservation of artistic heritage. The standard workflow presented in the paper may potentially influence the theory of conservation as well as the practice. Developing a new approach to heritage, the study aims at bringing digital strategies into the field of conservation in order to propose the new idea of Conservation 4.0.
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ABSTRACT Documentation on cultural heritage assets is an indispensable part of an overall strategy for cultural heritage protection. Sustainable conservation and management is not feasible without a systematic data collection and registration that identifies the history of the monument, its architectural attributes, preservation state and its possible alterations during its entire lifetime. Integrated documentation protocols for data collection and organizing are developed that built upon certain documentation procedures, encompassing all parameters relating to the monument. These were developed based on the current documentation methodologies survey, revealing the prerequisite main attributes of such protocols, and the need to incorporate quality control principles. Their structure follows a three-level classification of data that reflect the overall information to be documented at an increasing complexity. They constitute a solid basis for any knowledge-based decision making process to establish priorities of cultural heritage protection, through the use of specific necessity indices that utilize the information collected and stored.
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