Tracking Colour - Preliminary Report 2 (2010)

Title: Tracking Colour. The polychromy of Greek and Roman sculpture in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Preliminary Report 2

Editor: Jan Stubbe Østergaard and the Copenhagen Polychromy Network

Publisher: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek & the Copenhagen Polychromy Network

Year: 2010

Pages: 88

ISSN: 1904-1888

Link: http://www.glyptoteket.dk/... (PDF , 3.79 Mb)

From the Preface:

This report is a preliminary account of the 2010 activities of the NCG/CPN ‘Tracking Colour’ project. It offers an overview of salient aspects of developments in 2010, ending on a very happy note: an application to the Carlsberg Foundation for funding of a two-year prolongation of the project, from June 1st, 2011, has met with success. [...]

Table of Contents (short version):

‘Tracking Colour’ in 2010, Jan Stubbe Østergaard

NCG/CPN INVESTIGATIONS IN 2010

The Technical Investigation of Sculptural Polychromy at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 2009–2010 – An Outline, Maria Louise Sargent and Rikke Hoberg Therkildsen

Research on Ancient Sculptural Polychromy with Focus on a 2nd Century CE Marble Amazon, Maria Louise Sargent and Rikke Hoberg Therkildsen

The Sciarra Amazon Investigation: Some Archaeological Comments, Jan Stubbe Østergaard

DIGITAL DATA ASSETS MANAGEMENT

Tracking Colour Online: Managing and Sharing the Digital Assets of the NCG/CPN Project, Amalie Skovmøller

e-conservation 14 (2010)

Title: e-conservation
Issue: 14
Year: 2010
Link: http://www.e-conservationline.com/...
Download: http://www.e-conservationline.com/... (pdf, 7.9 Mb)


Index:

Editorial, Rui Bordalo

Building Bridges in the Third Place, Daniel Cull

Reviews

Multidisciplinary Conservation – A Holistic View for Historic Interiors, ICOM-CC Interim Meeting, Ana Bidarra

VI Symposium of Art and Science: Conservation and Restoration of Decorative Arts, Rui Bordalo

Interview

Wikipedia Saves Public Art. An interview with Richard McCoy and Jennifer Geigel Mikulay, conducted by Daniel Cull

Articles
Conservation-Restoration Interventions in Extreme Cases: Improving the Structural Resistance of Wood Damaged by Biological Attack, Cornelia and Dinu Sãvescu

The Challenges of Digital Art Preservation, Lino García and Pilar Montero Vilar

ARP Proceedings

The Conservation-Restoration of the “Charola” Paintings of the Convent of Christ in Tomar, Frederico Henriques, Ana Bailão and Miguel Garcia

The Conservation and Preservation of a Photographic Print: The “Panoramic View of Constantinople”, Élia Roldão and Luís Pavão

Book Review

"Conservation. Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths", review by Cristabel Blackman

Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials (2004)

Title: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images
Authors: Steven Puglia, Jeffrey Reed, and Erin Rhodes
Publisher: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Year: 2004
Pages: 87
Link: http://archives.gov/... (pdf, 1.59 Mb)

Scope:

The NARA Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access define approaches for creating digital surrogates for facilitating access and reproduction; they are not considered appropriate for preservation reformatting to create surrogates that will replace original records. The Technical Guidelines presented here are based on the procedures used by the Digital Imaging Lab of NARA’s Special Media Preservation Laboratory for digitizing archival records and the creation of production master image files, and are a revision of the 1998 “NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access”, which describes the imaging approach used for NARA’s pilot Electronic Access Project. [...]

Article: Digital Imagery for Historical Materials (2005)

Title: Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials - An Emerging Research Field Bridging People, Culture, and Technologies
Author: Ching-chih Chen, Howard Wactlar, James Z. Wang and Kevin Kiernan
Reference: International Journal on Digital Libraries,Special Issue: Towards the New Generation Digital Libraries: Recommendations of the US-NSF/EU-DELOS Working Groups, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 275-286, 2005
Link: http://stanford.edu/... (PDF, 461 Kb)

Abstract:

Digital imagery for significant cultural and historical materials is an emerging research field that bridges people, culture, and technologies. In this paper, we first discuss the great importance of this field. Then we focus on its four interrelated sub-areas: (1) creation and preservation, (2) retrieval, (3) presentation and usability, and (4) applications and use. We propose several mechanisms to encourage collaboration. We argue that the research has high potential impact to our digital society. Finally, we make specific recommendations on what to pursue in this field.

Article: Nephele System for Artwork Restoration (2008)

Title: The Material Description and Classification in Nephele System for Artwork Restoration
Author: Miroslav Beneš, Barbara Zitová, J. Hradilová, David Hradil
Reference: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia , M. Ioannides, A. Addison, A. Georgopoulos, L. Kalisperis (eds.), VSMM International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Limassol, CY, 2008
DOI: 20.10.2008-25.10.2008
Link: http://utia.cas.cz/... (pdf, 298 Kb)

Abstract:

We present a comprehensive information system for processing and archiving material analyses data produced during art restoration process - Nephele. The Nephele is a database system extended with image analyzing modules - image registration, segmentation, and object description and classification - designed for archiving and working with material analyses reports. The aim of the material analyses of paintings is to identify inorganic and organic compounds using microanalytical methods, and to describe painting layers and their morphology. Archiving all these data, Nephele can act as a knowledge base and an expert system for future advanced analyses. Image-type data of the archived reports are pre-processed, analyzed, and described for further evaluation. Moreover, next to the classical text-query database search Nephele supports report retrieval based on the similarity of the sample image to the archived image data, which can notably facilitate selection of relevant records to the current restoration case. In the near future, the Nephele system will be extended by the module for automatic painting material classification, based on neural network architecture and newly designed material taxonomy using object descriptors, capturing the layers morphology, their homogeneity or heterogeneity, and their color properties.

Article: Digital Imagery of Historical Materials (2006)

Title: Machine Annotation and Retrieval for Digital Imagery of Historical Materials
Author: James Z. Wang, Kurt Grieb, Ya Zhang, Ching-chih Chen, Yixin Chen and Jia Li
Reference: International Journal on Digital Libraries, Special Issue on Multimedia Contents and Management in Digital Libraries, vol. 6, no. 1, pp 18-29, Springer-Verlag, 2006
Link: http://stanford.edu/... (PDF, 868 Kb)

Abstract:

Annotating digital imagery of historical materials for the purpose of computer-based retrieval is a labor-intensive task for many historians and digital collection managers. We have explored the possibilities of automated annotation and retrieval of images from collections of art and cultural images. In this paper, we introduce the application of the ALIP (Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures) system, developed at Penn State, to the problem of machine-assisted annotation of images of historical materials. The ALIP system learns the expertise of a human annotator based on a small collection of annotated representative images. The learned knowledge about the domain-specific concepts is stored as a dictionary of statistical models in a computer-based knowledge base. When an un-annotated image is presented to ALIP, the system computes the statistical likelihood of the image resembling each of the learned statistical models and the best concept is selected to annotate the image. Experimental results, obtained using the Emperor image collection of the {\it Chinese Memory Net} project, are reported and discussed. The system has been trained using subsets of images and metadata from the Emperor collection. Finally, we introduce an integration of wavelet-based annotation and wavelet-based progressive displaying of very high resolution copyright-protected images.

Article: Studying Digital Imagery of Ancient Paintings (2004)

Title: Studying Digital Imagery of Ancient Paintings by Mixtures of Stochastic Models
Author: Jia Li and James Z. Wang
Reference: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 340-353, 2004
Link: article (PDF, 1.1 Mb), presentation (pdf, 2 Mb)

Abstract:

This paper addresses learning based characterization of fine art painting styles. The research has the potential to provide a powerful tool to art historians for studying connections among artists or periods in the history of art. Depending on specific applications, paintings can be categorized in different ways. In this paper, we focus on comparing the painting styles of artists. To profile the style of an artist, a mixture of stochastic models is estimated using training images. The 2-D multiresolution hidden Markov model (MHMM) is used in the experiment. These models form an artist's distinct digital signature. For certain types of paintings, only strokes provide reliable information to distinguish artists. Chinese ink paintings are a prime example of the above phenomenon; they do not have colors or even tones. The 2-D MHMM analyzes relatively large regions in an image, which in turn makes it more likely to capture properties of the painting strokes. The mixtures of 2-D MHMMs established for artists can be further used to classify paintings and compare paintings or artists. We implemented and tested the system using high-resolution digital photographs of some of China's most renowned artists. Experiments have demonstrated good potential of our approach in automatic analysis of paintings. Our work can be applied to other domains.

Article: Cybertools and Archaeology (2006)

Title: Cybertools and Archaeology
Author: Dean R. Snow, Mark Gahegan, C. Lee. Giles, Kenneth G. Hirth, George R. Milner, Prasenjit Mitra and James Z. Wang
Reference: Science, vol. 311, issue. 5763, pp. 958-959, February 17, 2006
Link: http://stanford.edu/... (PDF, 200 Kb)

Description:

In archaeology and other historical sciences, diverse, widely distributed data include artifacts, notes, field logs, and other records. Future research requires that these archives be electronically accessible and user-friendly.

Article: Fresco restoration: digital image processing approach (2009)

Title: Fresco restoration: digital image processing approach
Authors: Jan Blazek, Barbara Zitová, Miroslav Beneš, and Janka Hradilová
Reference: 17th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2009), Glasgow, Scotland, August 24-28, 2009, pp. 1210-1214
Link: http://utia.cas.cz/... (pdf, 667 Kb)

Abstract:

In this paper, we present an application of digital image processing algorithms for the process of fresco restoration. Modern methods for image preprocessing and evaluation such as image registration, image fusion, and image segmentation are applied on images of the fresco, obtained in different modalities (visual and ultraviolet spectra) and at different times. Moreover, local chemical analyzes are taken into account during the image analysis. The robustness of proposed algorithms should be high due to the bad state of the fresco. Achieved results can give to art restorers better insight into the evolution of the fresco aging and in this way a proper conservation method can be chosen. Developed methods are illustrated by generated output images.

Article: Analysis of painting materials (2010)

Title: Analysis of painting materials on multimodal microscopic level
Author: Barbara Zitová, Miroslav Beneš, J. Hradilová, David Hradil
Reference: Proceedings of SPIE IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010, D. G. Stork, J. Coddington, A. Bentkowska-Kafel (eds.), IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010, San Jose, USA
DOI: 17.01.2010–21.01.2010
Link: http://library.utia.cas.cz/... (pdf, 932 Kb)

Abstract:

Our paper introduces a system based on digital image processing algorithms designed to facilitate analysis of painting materials during artwork conservation. Microscopic images of minute samples - cross sections – from the artworks are scanned using visible and ultraviolet spectra and under scanning electron microscope. Firstly, the scans are registered to remove geometrical differences. The multimodal nature of the problem led to the application of mutual information. The image quality is maximized by means of blind deconvolution methods. Cross-sections are then segmented to individual layers and distinctive seeds. For the image retrieval part, which facilitates further analyses and conclusions, the layers are represented by means of wavelet analysis and second order statistics. The library of such features can be connected to the time of creation and differences between vectors of the same materials but from different paintings can help during a painter authentication.

Article: image processing in medieval mosaic (2004)

Title: An application of image processing in the medieval mosaic conservation
Author: Barbara Zitová, Jan Flusser, and Filip Šroubek
Reference: Pattern Analysis and Applications vol.7, 1 (2004), p. 18-25 (2004)
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-003-0200-3
Link: http://library.utia.cas.cz/... (pdf, 927 Kb)

Alternative:
An application of image processing for the conservation of the medieval mosaic, IEEE 2002 International Conference in Image Processing, Rochester, New York, September 22-25, 2002, vol.3, pp. 993 - 996, DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2002.1039142
(pdf, 951 Kb)

Abstract:

We present an application of digital image processing techniques in medieval mosaic conservation. The reconstructed art piece was The Last Judgment mosaic, situated on the wall of the St. Vitus cathedral in Prague, in the Czech Republic. The historical photograph of the mosaic from the 19th century was compared with the photograph of the current state in order to detect mutual differences. The images were firstly pre-processed to increase their quality (noise reduction, deblurring). In the second stage, geometrical differences between images were removed by means of image registration techniques — mutual information and feature point correspondence. Finally, differences of the current and historical photographs were identified.

Article: Direct Digital Image Capture (2005)

Title: Direct Digital Image Capture: Current Practices and Problems
Author: Charles Rhyne
Reference: Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, Vol. XXI (June 2005), pp. 214-219
Link: http://academic.reed.edu/... (html)

Abstract:

To document current practices, a survey was conducted of digital imaging procedures currently used at American Museums, Libraries, Archives, and other cultural institutions. Over forty institutions submitted answers to the questionnaire. Because no comparable survey has been conducted, the results should be of considerable interest to cultural institutions, indeed to anyone interested in high quality digital photography.

Article: Digital Archaeology (2009)

Title: Digital Archaeology: Recovering Digital Objects from Audio Waveforms
Authors: Mark Guttenbrunner, Mihai Ghete, Annu John, Chrisanth Lederer, Andreas Rauber
Reference: iPres 2009, 5-6 October 2009, in San Francisco, California
Link: Article: http://www.planets-project.eu/... (pdf, 241 Kb)
Presentation: http://www.planets-project.eu/... (pdf, 255 Kb)

Abstract:

Specimens of early computer systems stop working every day. It is necessary to prepare ourselves for the upcoming situation of having storage media and no working systems to read data from these carriers. With storage media residing in archives for already obsolete systems it is necessary to extract the data from these media before it can be migrated for long term preservation. One storage medium that was popular for home computers in the 1980s was the audio tape. The first home computer systems allowed the use of standard cassette players to record and replay data. Audio tapes are more durable than old home computers when properly stored. Devices playing this medium (i.e. tape recorders) can be found in working condition or can be repaired as they are made out of standard components. By re-engineering the format of the waveform the data on such media can then be extracted from a digitized audio stream. This work presents a case study of extracting data created on an early home computer system, the Philips G7400. The original data formats were re-engineered and an application was written to support the migration of data stored on tapes without using the original system. This eliminates the necessity of keeping an obsolete system alive for preserving access to data on storage media meant for this system. Two different methods to interpret the data and eliminate possible errors in the tape were implemented and evaluated on original tapes recorded 20 years ago. Results show that with some error correction methods parts of the tapes are still readable, even without the original system. It also becomes clear, that it is easier to build solutions now when the original systems are still available.

Report: Database for Archiving Paintings (2007)

Title: Spectral Imaging Database by PCA & NMF for Archiving Paintings Application
Author: Yifan Zhou
Year: 2007
Pages: 72
Type of document: Internship report
Download: http://spectral.joensuu.fi/... (pdf, 3.67 Mb)


Table of Contents (short version):

1. Acknowlegments

2. Objective

3. Introduction
3.1. Advantages of using digital image processing techniques in archiving paintings application.
3.2. Reasons why we need to use spectral images instead of RGB images.
3.3. How to characterize spectral images to index and search in a database?

4. Capturing of spectral Images
4.1. Basic conceptions of acquiring spectral images.
4.2. Accomplished international projects.
4.3. One of the capturing systems in color research group.

5. Methods of PCA & NMF
5.1. Principles of pca and nmf
5.2. Adoption to spectral images transformation
5.3. Advantages and disadvantages

6. Index and Search by PCA and NMF in the Spectral Imaging Database
6.1. Construction of an imaging database
6.2. Conventional ways to index and search in an imaging database
6.3. My procedure to index and search in a spectral imaging database

7. Conclusions
7.1. Related work
7.2. Discussion of experiment results
7.3. Future research directions
7.4. Conclusion of this internship

8. References

9. Appendices
9.1. Spectral images in the spectral imaging database
9.2. Eigenvectors and non-negative vectors calculated by the whole sub-database
9.3. Index spectral images by PCA and NMF
9.4. Distance between selected V and original V, selected W and original W of 1% to 20% average selections by spectral metric of PCA
9.5. Accuracy of vectors vs. selections
9.6. Feature vectors
9.7. GFC and PSNR distance of random selections of 1% to 99%
9.8. List of functions
9.9. Abbreviation


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Article: visible spectrum imaging for pigment identification (2002)

Title: The use of multi-channel visible spectrum imaging for pigment identification
Authors: Roy S. Berns and Francisco H. Imai
Reference: 13TH Triennial Meeting Rio de Janeiro Preprints, ICOM Committee for Conservation, 2002
Pages: 217-222
Download: http://www.art-si.org/... (pdf, 2.27 Mb)

Abstract:

Visible reflectance spectrophotometry is a valuable tool in art conservation. In particular, the spectral data can be used to evaluate potential pigment combinations for inpainting to insure metamerism is minimized. This is a critical criterion because of the wide range of museum lighting and observers, including imaging devices. Recently, a new method of pigment selection for inpainting was developed that successfully minimizes metamerism. Normally, small-aperture spectrophotometers are used. An experiment was performed to test whether this technique could be used with direct digital capture of artwork. Multi-filter colour images were used to estimate spectral reflectance factor. The accuracy of the spectral estimation depended on the spectral properties of the system calibration target. The new method of pigment selection was able to correctly identify pigments from the estimated spectra in many cases. The reported results focus on blue pigments, often a cause of significant metamerism when poorly matched.

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Article: Digital Imaging of Cultural Heritage

Title: High-Accuracy Digital Imaging of Cultural Heritage without Visual Editing
Authors: Roy S. Berns, Lawrence A. Taplin, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Yonghui Zhao and Yoshio Okumura
Download: http://www.art-si.org/... (pdf, 258 Kb)

Abstract:

At Rochester Institute of Technology, a research program is near completion aimed at benchmarking the quality of direct digital imaging of cultural heritage in American museums, libraries, and similar institutions. The current practice at nearly all institutions surveyed includes visual editing. Digital masters incorporate camera spatial processing, ICCt ype color management including encoding in a large-gamut RGB space, and global and local visual editing. Also at RIT, a research program is underway aimed at developing a high quality digital camera that incorporates spectral imaging. The hypothesis is that when using the new camera system, visual editing is unnecessary, greatly improving workflow efficiency and color accuracy. An experiment was performed to test this hypothesis. The experiment included spectral based imaging of both color targets and small paintings and rendering the spectral images for a colorimetrically characterized computer-controlled LCD display. The targets and paintings were viewed adjacent to the display in a laboratory lit by ceiling-mounted daylight-balanced fluorescent lights. A variety of quantitative comparisons were performed including: reflectance spectrophotometry vs. in-situ spectroradiometry, reflectance spectrophotometry vs. spectral-based imaging, forward and inverse model accuracy of the LCD colorimetric characterization, and in-situ spectroradiometric comparison of targets and paintings compared with their LCD renderings. Using the GretagMacbeth ColorChecker as an independent verification target, average color differences varied between 1.0 and 2.9 E 00. For two paintings, the average accuracy was 4.2 and 5.1 E 00. This level of accuracy exceeded that achieved by museums and libraries, even following global and local image editing, confirming our hypothesis that it is possible to create a digital archive of cultural heritage without the need for visual editing.


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Report: Ensuring Perpetual Access- German National Hosting Strategy

Title: Ensuring Perpetual Access: Establishing a Federated Strategy on Perpetual Access and Hosting of Electronic Resources for Germany. Final Report, 2010.
Author: Charles Beagrie
Pages: 177
Year: 2010
Link: http://www.allianzinitiative.de/...
Download: http://www.allianzinitiative.de/... (pdf, 1.97 Mb)

From the Preface:

This study was conducted as basis for all further steps towards a national hosting strategy. It was financed jointly by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Helmholtz Association, the Leibniz Association and the Max Planck Society. The study is intended to be the starting point from which to arrive at concrete ideas and activities related to a coordinated national hosting strategy. The intensive, often controversial but always constructive and continuing discussion now expands out of the working group into the public area to be continued there in the same manner. Invited for further discussion are all stakeholders with responsibility in the German science system to establish and finance sustainable structures for perpetual access as well as long-term preservation for electronic resources.

Table of Contents:

1. Executive Summary
2. Overview of the Study Report
3. Introduction
4. The International Context
5. The Current Position in Germany
6. Views on The Future Position in Germany
7. Technical Infrastructure and Standards
8. Gap Analysis for a Federated Strategy on Perpetual Access and Hosting
9. Use Cases
10. Scenarios, Potential Solutions and Recommended Approaches
11. Future Development of the Strategy
12. References
13. Appendix 1 - Glossary and Definition of Terms
14. Appendix 2 - List of Interviewees
15. Appendix 3 - Supplement on Technical Standards

iPRES 2009

Title: iPRES 2009: the Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
Conference Date: October 5-6, 2009
Conference Venue: San Francisco, California, USA
Year: 2009
Link: online view and pdf of each article at http://www.escholarship.org/...
Download: Vídeos and presentations are available at http://www.cdlib.org/...

Table of contents:

Stephen Abrams, et al., An Emergent Micro-Services Approach to Digital Curation Infrastructure

Reinhard Altenhöner, e-Infrastructure and Digital Preservation: Challenges and Outlook

Martha Anderson, et al., The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Charter: Enabling Collaboration to Achieve National Digital Preservation

Emmanuelle Bermès, Louise Faudet, The Human Face of Digital Preservation: Organizational and Staff Challenges, and Initiatives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Geoffrey Brown, Kam Woods, Born Broken: Fonts and Information Loss in Legacy Digital Documents

Priscilla Caplan, et al., Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories (TIPR)

Esther Conway, et al., Curating Scientific Research Data for the Long Term: A Preservation Analysis Method in Context

Angela Dappert, Adam Farquhar, Implementing Metadata that Guides Digital Preservation Services

Angela Di Iorio, A Translation Layer to Convey Preservation Metadata

David Giaretta, et al., Significant Properties, Authenticity, Provenance, Representation Information and OAIS Information

David Giaretta, Tools for Preservation and Use of Complex and Diverse Digital Resources

Rebecca Guenther, Robert Wolfe, Integrating Metadata Standards to Support Long-Term Preservation of Digital Assets: Developing Best Practices for Expressing Preservation Metadata in a Container Format

Mark Guttenbrunner, et al., Digital Archeology: Recovering Digital Objects from Audio Waveforms

Ulla Bøgvad Kejser, et al., Cost Model for Digital Curation: Cost of Digital Migration

Matthew Kirschenbaum, et al., Preserving Access to Computers as Complete Environments

Christopher Lee, et al., Mainstreaming Preservation through Slicing and Dicing of Digital Repositories: Investigating Alternative Service and Resource Options for Context Miner Using Data Grid Technology

Henry Lowood, Memento Mundi: Are Virtual Worlds History?

Jens Ludwig, Into the Archive: Potential and Limits of Standardizing the Ingest

Brian Matthews, et al., Towards a Methodology for Software Preservation

David Minor, et al., Chronopolis: Preserving our Digital Heritage

Maureen Pennock, Richard Davis, ArchivePress: A Really Simple Solution to Archiving Blog Content

Klaus Rechert, et al., Novel Workflows for Abstract Handling of Complex Interaction Processes in Digital Preservation

Rainer Schmidt, et al., A Framework for Distributed Preservation Workflows

Sabine Schrimpf, Lessons Learned: Moving a Digital Preservation Network from Project Organization to Sustainability

Pauline Sinclair, et al., Are You Ready? Assessing Whether Organisations are Prepared for Digital Preservation

Johanna Smith, Pam Armstrong, Preserving the Digital Memory of the Government of Canada: Influence and Collaboration with Records Creators

David Tarrant, Steve Hitchcock, Les Carr, Where the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Meet Format Risk Management: P2 Registry

René van Horik, Dirk Roorda, MIXED: Repository of Durable File Format Conversions

Tyler Walters, Distributed Digital Preservation: Technical, Sustainability, and Organizational Developments

Paul Wheatley, Brian Hole, LIFE3: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs

Wolfgang Wilkes, et al., Towards Support for Long-Term Digital Preservation in Product Life Cycle Management

Disasters, displays, digitization (2006)

Title: Proceedings of the international Symposium the 3-D's of preservation: disasters, displays, digitization
Editor: Corine Koch
Event: Organized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in collaboration with IFLA (IFLA Section on Preservation and Conservation IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation) Paris, France, March 8th-10th 2006
Pages: 144
Year: 2006
Download: http://archive.ifla.org/... (pdf, 1.24 Mb)

Table of Contents:

Forty Years Outside Looking in: Panaceas, Principles and Pragmatism, John McIlwaine

The Future of Preservation, Deanna B. Marcum

Session 1
The Never-ending Challenge: Disaster and Preservation in Chile, Ximena Cruzat A.
Foreseeing and Dealing with the Unforeseen - Library Disasters in Perspective, Per Cullhed
From Disaster Plan to Action Plan, Sarah-Jane Jenner
Le Plan d'Urgence de la Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Josiane Laurent
Towards a National Disaster Response Protocol, Randy Silverman

Session 2
Les conditions de conservation des Doscuments Graphiques et Photographiques lors des Expositions, Jocelyne Deschaux
Expositions et Conservation: de la Norme à la Réalité, Anne-Hélène Rigogne et Brigitte Leclerc
Displays: The Role of Preservation in Exhibitions at the Library of Congress, Diann van der Reyden

Session 3
Networking for Digital Preservation: Current Practice in 15 National Libraries, Ingeborg Verheul
Conservation et Accès aux Ressources Numériques à la Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Catherine Lupovici
Making (Preservation) Plans Together - Planning Strategies for Digital Preservation in the Netherlands and Europe, Hilde Van Wijngaarden
National Digital Information Infrasctruture and Preservation Program: What we have achieved so far and where we are headed?, Laura Campbell


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digital art characterisation techniques (2009)

Title: Report on emerging digital art characterisation techniques
Author: Andrew McHugh, Leonidas Konstantelos, Matthew Barr
Publisher: Planets
Year: 2009
Pages: 39
Download: http://www.planets-project.eu/... (pdf, 374 Kb)

Abstract

The preservation, or conservation of digital art confronts us with a range of challenges, eclipsing many of the difficulties posed by more mainstream digital resources like documents and images. In this, digital art is not alone, with many of the most critical questions shared by conservators of contemporary art more generally. Issues of context, of interpretation and perceived value are all critical, but rarely clear cut. Preservation of art may itself be an impossible goal; instead, one might realistically aim only to create and collate sufficient documentation capable of conveying meaning and impact to a future audience, with perhaps one eye on its recreation where necessary at a later date.

Table of Contents (short version):

1. Introduction
2. Approaching a Vocabulary for Context Classification
3. Documentation of Intrinsic Aspects of Contemporary Art
4. Art Conservation Practice and Planets