Inauguration of the UNESCO Chair on Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites, Leuven (Belgium) 24-25 March 2009 Thematic.

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