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Publication date 15 September 2011
392 pages
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This two volume set, published with the Getty Conservation Institute, is designed to provide cultural heritage professionals with an overview of best practices and tools in the gathering and management of heritage information.
Volume 1: Guiding Principles explains the importance of recording, documentation, and information management, and the reasons heritage information should be fully integrated into all research, investigation, and conservation activities. Through discussion of these basic principles, benefits, and new approaches, Guiding Principles enables those charged with preserving immovable cultural heritage to bring their heritage information practices to a new level. A helpful index has been added to enhance this revised reprint.
Volume 2: Illustrated Examples is intended to guide managers of heritage sites in the documentation of heritage places. Good documentation of a site allows for better understanding of the site’s value, often the first step toward its conservation. With information obtained through the documentation process conservation professionals can record current conditions, consider appropriate conservation options, plan interventions, apply treatments, and finally, measure the results of their efforts. Illustrated Examples presents numerous case studies from around the world that demonstrate the successful use of diverse approaches to recording and documentation in a variety of situations. They cover a wide range of site typologies from individual buildings to cultural landscapes, and techniques that range from hand survey to laser scanning and 3-D computer modeling. Included are sections on base recording, condition assessment, data management, and tools for investigation and monitoring. This revised reprint includes five new case studies.
Volume 1 Guiding Principles
v Foreword
v Preface
v Acknowledgments
v Executive Summary
v Key Definitions: The
Guiding Principles
v Background
How did this book come about? Overview What are we talking about?
v Why is heritage
information required?
v When is recording
indispensable?
v Who is producing
information, and who is using it?
v Guidance How
does heritage information fit into the conservation process?
v Why recording, and
who produces records?
v What approach is
suggested to ensure systematic documentation and good information
management?
v How are national
heritage information policies and related programs developed?
v Appendixes A:
Principles for the Recording of Monuments, Groups of Buildings and Sites
v B: Summary of Gaps
and Needs Identified during the 2002 RecorDIM Meeting
v C: Planning for
Recording and Analyzing Masonry Deterioration: The Fort Henry Project
v D: Planning for
Recording a Specific Structure: the Fort Henry Ditch Tower
v E: Summary of Metric
Survey Techniques for Heritage Documentation
v
F: Overview and
Evaluation of Information Management Tools
v G: Developing a
National Heritage Information Policy
v H: Overview of
Existing Charters and Guidelines
v Glossary
v Annotated Selected
Bibliography
v Contributors
v Index.
Volume 2 Illustrated Examples v Foreword v Preface v Acknowledgments v Introduction Informing Conservation, Kate Clark v Tools Overview, Ross Dallas v Base Recording: Gathering Information v Rapid Assessment, Anthony Crosby v Wall Deformation, Sandeep Sikka v Defining Cultural Landscape, Geofree Chikwanda v Mapping Features, Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Cristian Arevalo Pakarati, and Alice Hom v A Record for Posterity, Alonzo C. Addison v Condition Assessment: Working with Information v Recording Streetscapes, Salim Elwazani and Jose Luis Lerma v Condition Survey, Rand Eppich, Dusan Stulik, and Jaroslav Zastoupil v Building Survey, Christian Ouimet v Inspecting Sites, Kevin L. Jones v Data Management: Analyzing Information Structural Assessment, Gorun Arun v City Inventories, Francesco Siravo v Ancestral Art, Cliff Ogleby v Planning Interventions, Frank Matero and Judy Peters v Virtual Solutions, Jose Luis Lerma and Carmen Perez v Other Tools for Investigation and Monitoring Overview of Diagnostic Indirect Tools for Conservation, John A. Fidler v Subsurface Conditions, Marco Tallini v Monitoring Movement, Giorgio Croci v Traditional Techniques, Caterina Borelli v Reading Interventions, Soon-Kwan Kim v Spiral Jetty, Aurora Tang et al v Petrogylphs in Three Dimensions, Paul G. Bryan v Shedding New Light on Ancient Images, Bud F. Turner v Moisture Survey, Amel Chabbi and Barry Drogin v Recording during a Restoration Project, Zheng Yu and Li Jainyin v Appendix A: Teaching Approaches, Mario Santana Quintero v Appendix B: Contacts v Glossary v Bibliography v About the Editors.
Werner Schmid is a freelance conservator of mural paintings and related architectural surfaces, and a graduate of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (Central Institute for Conservation), Rome. From 1990 to 2000 he worked as a project manager at ICCROM, supervising a variety of efforts, including training courses and technical meetings. At ICCROM he coordinated the research seminar GraDoc - Graphic Documentation Systems in Mural Painting Conservation, and was editor of the proceedings, which were published in 2001.
Francois LeBlanc is a specialist in conservation and rehabilitation of heritage places. He is currently head of field projects at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. A graduate of Montreal University with a degree in architecture, he is a registered architect with the Quebec Orders of Architects in Canada.
Rand Eppich is a licensed architect and was formerly senior project manager at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). As manager of the institute's Digital Recording Lab, he was involved in numerous GCI projects in Los Angeles, China and Europe. He has lectured on a variety of documentation tools, including photography, photogrammetry, GIS, and GPS, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Katholicke Universiteit Leuven, and ICCROM. He holds advanced degrees in architecture and management from UCLA.
Amel Chabbi received a master of science in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvana and also holds degrees in both chemistry and archaeology. At the GCI, she assisted in the Conservation of Mosaics In Situ Initiative in Tunisia. She is a conservator at the Superstructures Engineers +Architects, as well as a Kress Architectural Conservation Fellow working on the Texaco Road Map project for the New York State Pavilion with the Architectural Conservation Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a building conservator with the Abu Dhabi Authority for Cultural Heritage.
This two-volume set should be essential reading for students following conservation and heritage study programmes and will be of value to practitioners and decision makers, whatever their professional background, who need to further develop their skills in evaluating proposals, commissioning appropriate specialists, framing policies or controlling the implementation of conservation projects. The distilled wisdom contained within their pages provides a solid foundation for the effective integration of recording, documentation and information management techniques into the conservation process.
Journal of Architectural Conservation (read the full review here).