D.8.5 Completed example of prototype designs for integration of various types of documentation and analytical data generated for a single object
Creators: name: Padfield, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Conservation Documentation
Analytical Examination
Heritage Science
Semantic Relationships
CIDOC-CRM
Linked Data

description: This deliverable is an update of the initial closed, IPERION-CH deliverable D8.1. All the original figures, illustrating the semantic modelling of the people, objects and events involved in the documentation of heritage science have been extended to include full references to the core CIDOC CRM, and where appropriate directly related to real pieces of data, rather than just a theoretical outline. Conservation and Heritage Science documentation are overarching terms used to cover the description and record of any relevant materials, activities, processes, people, places, and events involved in the history of a cultural heritage object. Cataloguing an object’s composition, condition and how it has degraded or been damaged overtime, along with all the work that has been done to retard, treat and study this degradation process. So, this work can cover the full range of historic activities right up to the ever-increasing detail and complexity of modern scientific analytical techniques. The amount of time and expertise needed to record everything in a meaningful and re-usable fashion can rapidly progress past the level that is realistic for the many different specialists working in this field. A balance must be established between the effort and time required and the future benefit of the recorded information; key to this process is making use of appropriate tools to maximise the efficiency of the documentation process. Over the last decade large amounts of time and money have been invested in the development of conservation-related documentation systems ii and digital tools iii , to help with this documentation process. Some of this work has taken place within specific institutions while other larger projects, most notably the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded ConservationSpace and ResearchSpace projects, have been developed through multi-institutional collaborations. However, these new tools and systems are often developed for specific purposes and can still require a fair amount of technical know-how or support to implement, populate and access. Also, even with all this work, many specialists in the field are still using simple digital file folders or are stuck with older institution-specific databases that struggle to meet their current requirements. In many cases people are also still working with analogue filling systems. Additional research is required to provide a bridge between current working practice and any future complete integrated digital solution. This work-package has been developed to carry out some of this bridging work, examining and developing the new approaches to digital documentation being developed by the project partners. The work-package will also provide accessible, re-usable, practical worked examples of tools that can be used to document conservation work. Examining how they can be used to link together the important work that is already done, to make the captured information more accessible to others. In order to connect existing work together and to identify where practical worked examples would be most informative, the relationships between the various types of documentary and analytical data generated for generic situations need to be described. This deliverable provides a series of more fully described, graphical examples demonstrating how the general semantic description of a specific painting and some generic concepts can be linked to the images and the results of their analytical examination. The descriptions and links defined within this deliverable have been developed from previous research work, along with detailed discussions between the various participating partners.
description: Further project details can be found at: http://www.iperionch.eu/ and https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/654028