New Technologies for Cultural Heritage (2010)

Title: Seeing is Believing: New Technologies for Cultural Heritage
Conference: University College London, 9 June 2010
Link: http://www.iskouk.org/...

Description:

Seeing is Believing: New Technologies for Cultural Heritage was yet another successful ISKO UK meeting attended by over 90 participants. The afternoon offered a fascinating and mutually complementary suite of talks that covered topics ranging from how to capture 3D representations of precious artefacts in order to improve access to mass audiences without the damage caused by physical handling, to how crowdsourcing can harness the enthusiasm of online communities to improve collections, speed digitisation, and enhance metadata. [...]

Programme

Shaping Up: 3D Documentation and Knowledge in Cultural Heritage, David Arnold [mp3]

This talk will describe current research targeted to make 3D documentation a practical alternative for Cultural Heritage organisations and cover topics such connecting shape to metadata and the need to interpret the semantics of shape. The talk will also describe some of the challenges that the research faces in the quest to empower the mass digitisation and widespread 3D dissemination that the aspiration demands.


Tales of Things: Archiving and Viewing the Cultural Heritage of Everything, Andy Hudson-Smith [slides] [mp3]

Tales of Things is part of a research project called TOTeM that will explore social memory in the emerging culture of the Internet of Things. Researchers from across the UK have provided this site as a platform for users to add stories to their own treasured objects and to connect to other people who share similar experiences. The system allows any object to be tagged via qrcodes and rfid labels, making it suitable for use by museums, exhibitions, artists and the public at large. The talk explores the project to date and discusses the implications of being able to archive and write memories to everything.

Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: UCL's Transcribe Bentham Project, Melissa Terras [slides] [mp3]

Crowdsourcing - the harnessing of online activity to aid in large scale projects that require human cognition - is becoming of interest to those in the library, museum and cultural heritage industry, as institutions seek ways to publicly engage their online communities, as well as aid in creating useful and usable digital resources. UCL's Bentham Project has recently set up the "Transcribe Bentham" initiative; an ambitious, open source, participatory online environment to aid in transcribing the 10,000 folios of handwritten documents by the philospher and legal reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) that are currently in UCL special collections. This paper will explore how crowdsourcing can be used, the myths and pitfalls in using crowdsourced effort, and the features that computer applications need to provide, in the context of the development of the Transcribe Bentham project.

Putting the National Maritime Museum online, Fiona Romeo [mp3]


eMuseum Network - a path to Linked Data, Sascha Curzon [slides] [mp3]

eMuseum Network is a search and collaboration platform designed and hosted by Gallery Systems. The project enables member museums to share their collections catalogues and to search and export data across all participating collections from a single access point, in a share-and-share-alike fashion. This presentation will give an overview of the project and how Gallery Systems plans to provide a path for museums to participate in the Linked Data Initiative.

Thesis: A Museological Approach to Blogging (2007)

Title: Constructing Connections: A Museological Approach to Blogging
Author: Lynn A. Bethke
University: University of Washington
Year: 2007
Pages: 141
Type of document: Master thesis
Link: http://sites.google.com/site/lynnbethke/... (pdf, 1.4 Mb)


Table of Contents:

1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background and History
1.1.1 Blogging Basics and Background
1.1.2 A Condensed and Focused Museum History

2.0 Blogs and Museum Theory
2.1 Education
2.1.1 Theories of Knowledge and Learning
2.1.2 Constructivist Learning
2.1.3 Museums and Constructivist Learning
2.1.4 Other Advantages for Museum Education
2.2 Communication
2.2.1 Approaches to Communication
2.2.2 Mass v. Network Communication
2.2.3 Museums and Networked Communication
2.3 Public Relations
2.3.1 A Selected Overview of Public Relations Theory
2.3.2 Relationship Management
2.3.3 Museums and Public Relations
2.3.4 Blogs as Museum Public Relations Tools
2.4 Blogs as Appropriate for Museums

3.0 Blogs and Museum Practice
3.1 Methodology
3.1.1 Scope of Survey
3.1.2 Survey Methods
3.1.3 Other Analytic Methods
3.2 The Costs and the Benefits of Museum Blogging
3.2.1 Blogging Benefits
3.2.2 The Costs of Museum Blogging
3.3 Museum Blogs: Approaches
3.4 Findings Summary
3.5 Blog Case Studies
3.5.1 BuzzBlog: Creating Community
3.5.2 Dear Miss Griffis: Collections in Conversation
3.5.3 Live from LRMA: Curatorial Blogging
3.5.4 Food Museum Blog: Cooking Up Content
3.6 Museum Blogs in the Twenty-First Century
3.7 And Beyond

Bibliography
Appendix A: Websites Referenced
Appendix B: Survey Responses

Enamels and enamelling (1900)

Title: Enamels and enamelling, an introduction to the preparation and application of all kinds of enamels for technical and artistic purposes, for enamel makers, workers in gold and silver and manufacturers of objects of art
Author: Paul Randau
Publisher: Scott, Greenwood and co.
Year: 1900
Pages: 236
Types of files: pdf, djvu, txt, epub, kindle, daisy
Link: http://www.archive.org/...

Note: Resource kindly indicated by Nina Horvat

Table of Contents (short version):

I. Introduction
II. The Composition and Properties of Glass
III. Raw Materials for the Manufacture of Enamels
IV. Substances Added to Produce Opacity
V. Fluxes
VI. Pigments
VII. Decolorising Agents
VIII. Testing the Raw Materials and Enamel Mass
Ix. Subsidiary Materials
X. Preparing the Materials for Enamel-Making
XI. Mixing the Materials
XII. The Enamel Mass
XIII. Appliances for Smelting the Enamel Mass
XIV. Smelting the Charge
XV. Composition of Enamel Masses
XVI. Composition of Masses for Ground Enamels
XVII. Composition of Cover Enamels
XVIII Preparing the Articles for Enameling
XIX. Applying the Enamel
XX. Firing the Ground Enamel
XXI. Applying and Firing the Cover Enamel or Glaze
XXII. Repairing Defects in Enamelled Ware
XXIII. Enamelling Articles of Sheet Metal
XXIV. Decorating Enamelled Ware
XXV. Specialties in Enamelling
XXVI. Dial-Plate Enamelling
XXVII. Enamels for Artistic Purposes

Archaeological Iron Conservation Colloquium 2010 - Extended Abstracts (2010)

Title: Archaeological Iron Conservation Colloquium 2010 - Extended Abstracts
Editors: Gerhard Eggert and Britta Schmutzler
Conference website: http://www.iron-colloquium.abk-stuttgart.de

Note: Resource kindly indicated by Goran Budija

Files: (pdf)
Session 1: Iron Conservation Science (pdf, 1.2 Mb)
Session 2: Iron Conservation Projects around the World (pdf, 2.2. Mb)
Session 3: Alkaline Chloride Extraction (pdf, 980 Kb)
Session 4: Marine Finds (pdf, 640 Kb)
Poster Session (pdf, 1Mb)

Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific (1993)

Title: Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific: Conservation and Policy. Proceedings of a Symposium held in Honolulu, Hawaii, September 8-13, 1991
Editor: Margaret G. H. Mac Lean
Publisher: The Getty Conservation Institute
Year: 1993
Pages: 140
Link: http://getty.edu/... (pdf, 3.2 Mb)


Table of Contents:

Introduction, Margaret Mac Lean

The Impact of Policy on Cultural Heritage Protection, Lyndel V. Prott

Conservation Policy Delivery, Sharon Sullivan

Legal and Policy Issues in the Protection of Cultural Heritage in South Asia and the Pacific, Cathy Lynne Costin

Issues That Affect Cultural Property, Specifically Objects in South Asia and the Pacific, Colin Pearson

Building for Conservation: Appropriate Design for Environmental Control in the Tropics, Steve King

The Plenary Session: Summary of the Discussion