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Inauguration of the UNESCO Chair on Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites, Leuven (Belgium) 24-25 March 2009
Thematic seminar A: recording, documentation and information system for monitoring for preventive maintenance
Mario SANTANA ([email protected])
Overview Heritage recording, documentation and information systems in preventive maintenance
CONCEPTS
ASSESSMENTHERITAGE INFORMATION:
DOCUMENTATION: already existing stock of information
RECORDING: acquisition of new information deriving from all activities
INFORMATION SYSTEMS: The process of finding, cataloguing, storing, and sharing information by making it accessible
HERITAGE: general to immovable cultural heritage, such as archaeological sites, single monuments, groups of buildings, historic towns, or cultural landscapes.
INFORMATION
PUBLICATIONARTICLE 16.
Precise documentation:Analytical and Critical reports
with drawings and photographs:
Every stage of work:Archives:Available to research workers:Should be published:
Venice Charter
BACKGROUNDHERITAGE INFORMATION::
WHY
ICOMOS Principles for the Recording of Monuments, Groups of Buildings and Sites
1. Reason2. Responsibility3. Planning ;4. Content;5. Management,
dissemination, sharing of knowledge
RECORDIM
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/pdf_publications/recordim.html
Guiding principles
Illustrated examples
http://www.international.icomos.org/recording.htmhttp://www.icomos.org/venice_charter.html
WHEN
ASSESSMENTHERITAGE INFORMATION::
Bejawaria, Island of Meroe, Soedan
FOR POSTERITY
Preventive maintenance
Based on GGI/WMF Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative
HOW
ASSESSMENTHERITAGE INFORMATION:
RLICC studenten, Belgie
SIGNIFICANCE - INTEGRITY
ASSESSMENTHERITAGE INFORMATION:
Bamiyan, AfghanistanBased on GGI/WMF Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative
Bantey Kdei (Angkor), Cambodia
IDENTIFICATION OF PARAMETERS TO MONITOR THREATS
IDENTIFICATION
Gebaseerd op de UNESCO WH Operational guidelines
HERITAGE INFORMATION:: ASSESSMENT
Meroe (Sudan)
IDENTIFYING RECORDING NEEDS PARAMETERS THRU DEFINING THREATS
Visitors/Tourism pressures
Understanding heritage places
ASSESSMENT: PARAMETERSHERITAGE INFORMATION
Hampi (India)
IDENTIFYING RECORDING NEEDS PARAMETERS THRU DEFINING THREATS
Inhabitants
Understanding heritage places
ASSESSMENT: PARAMETERSHERITAGE INFORMATION
Hampi (India)
IDENTIFYING RECORDING NEEDS PARAMETERS THRU DEFINING THREATS
Development/Environmental/Disaster
Understanding heritage places
ASSESSMENT: PARAMETERSHERITAGE INFORMATION
Cuenca, Ecuador
IDENTIFYING RECORDING NEEDS PARAMETERS THRU DEFINING THREATS
Simple recording solutions
CONSERVATIONHERITAGE INFORMATION
Understanding heritage places
St. Jabobskerk (Leuven), Belgie
ASSESSMENTHERITAGE INFORMATION:
Preventive maintenance
BASELINE
BASELINE CYCLE
Definition of information’s role:
Xi’an (China)
INFORMATION IS USED FOR DECISION MAKING
Based on Demas, M. ‘Site unseen’: the case for reburial of archaeological sites’, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites (2004), Vol. 6, pages 137-154
CONSERVATION PLAN
ASSESSMENTHERITAGE INFORMATION:
LEVELS OF RECORDING
Castle of Arenberg, Belgium
BASELINE RECORDINGHERITAGE INFORMATION
Preventive maintenance
BASELINE RECORDINGHERITAGE INFORMATION
LEVELS OF RECORDING
Preventive maintenance
Classification of digital sensorsClassification of digital sensorsDigital sensors to register, document and record cultural heritage
(surveying, 3D scanning, (surveying, 3D scanning, photogrammetry, metrology, photogrammetry, metrology, GPR)*GPR)* (thermal, acoustic, C14, …)*(thermal, acoustic, C14, …)*
A. Addison’s classification
INFORMATION: Selecting toolsHERITAGE
LocationalLocational
(GPS, compass, …)*(GPS, compass, …)*
VisualVisual
(Still and video cameras)*(Still and video cameras)*
DimensionalDimensional EnvironmentalEnvironmental
Based on research byA. Addison - M. Santana
TechnqiuesTechnqiues
SENSORS
HERITAGE INFORMATION:
Sahara, Soedan
Before applying techniques understand their benefits and constraints Petra, Jordan
INFORMATIONHERITAGE
VARIABLES
Selecting a tool
CHALLENGES
• Largely disjointed - no sharing possible;
• Lack of standards;• Increase of information
resources with lack of quality• Data without provenance;• Long-standing problems.
GAPS
RECORDINGHERITAGE INFORMATION
LITERATURE• 3D Risk Mapping Project: http://www.3driskmapping.org• EPOCH Know How books: http://www.tii.se/knowhow/index.html• Letellier, R. Schmid, W. LeBlanc, F. Guiding Principles
Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places, Getty Conservation Institute, 2007 J. Paul Getty Trust (available at: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/pdf_publications/recordim.html)
• Eppich, E. Chabbi, A. ed. Illustrated Examples Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places, The Getty Conservation Institute, 2007 J. Paul Getty Trust (available at: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/pdf_publications/recordim.html)
• Box, P. GIS and Cultural Resources Management Manual, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Bangkok 1999, http://west-pac.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=2575
• English Heritage ‘Understanding Historic Buildings: A guide to good recording practice’ (2006):
Part 1: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/Understanding_Historic_Buildings_1.pdfPart 2: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/Understanding_Historic_Buildings_2.pdfPart 3: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/Understanding_Historic_Buildings_3.pdf
MARIO [email protected] [email protected]/rlicc - www.kahosl.be