This open access book compiles the contributions of the conference CollectionCare: New Challenges in Preventive Conservation, Predictive Analysis and Environmental Monitoring. The conference held within the framework of the EUs Horizon2020 CollectionCare project (grant no. 814624), was a forum where the latest technological advances in the study of the behavior and aging of cultural heritage materials, environmental monitoring, and the design of preventive conservation strategies in collections were presented.
This volume is of interest to heritage researchers and is divided into two sections: the first brings together thirteeen papers that focus on the monitoring, analysis, data interpretation and modelling of the effects of different degradation agents (temperature, relative humidity, pollutants, light, vibration, etc.) in materials present in cultural heritage objects. The second part of the book presents eight case studies dealing with risk assessment and risk management in different types of collections with diverse needs, priorities, and resources, thus illustrating the complexity of implementing all the current knowledge on sensing, monitoring, predictive analysis and preventive conservation in the design of conservation strategies. The case studies presented also demonstrate how these tools have contributed to maximise dialogue and coordination between the different stakeholders involved in the conservation of cultural heritage.
Section
1. Enhance performance and reduce energy use in storage areas:
two Belgian case studies; Cosaert, A.; Tijskens, A.; Bauwens, G.; De Bruyn,
E.- Preventive conservation strategies at the Rijksmuseum showcases;
Alvarez-Martin, A.; van Iperen, J.; Verhaar, G.; Creange, S.; van Bennekom,
J.; Keune, K..- Sound-induced vibrations as a potential threat to museum
artefacts; Alami, K.; Baars, C.; Pullin, R.; Grigg, S..- Your Building
Management Systems: a treasure-trove for Collection Care ; Haddad, A.;
Martins, A.; Rakush, I.; Stomber, R..- Revising and Developing the
Environmental Policy for the British Library; Bradford, K.; Garside, P..-
Risk Management and Environmental Monitoring: A Combined Approach to
Preventive Conservation for the Coin Exhibition of the Dresden State Art
Collections; Jeberien, A.; Pamer-Gatzsche, I.; Loether, T.; Mäder, M..- The
Preventive Conservation Plan of the Alcazar of Seville; Garcķa Įlvarez, J.;
Tena Marķn, M..- The Human Sensor: Supplementing Our Preventive Conservation
Sensor Data with Observations; King, M..- Diverse collections, different
contexts: risk management for the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation cultural heritage;
de Araśjo Pinheiro, M.J.; Teixeira Coelho, C.M.; Tartaglia, A.R..- Design of
tables with unified criteria for the preliminary phases of the study of
cultural heritage: risk indicators and priorities; Mastroiacovo, T.; Soriano
Sancho, M.P.; Regidor Ros, J.L..- Storage, moving and re-storage of Municipal
Oporto Collections; Aguiar, M.; Borges, I.; Barata, C.; Cabral, A..-
Accommodating and Compromising Storage, Access, and Possible Repatriation.
Rehousing the NTNU University Museum Sįmi Collection; Peacock, E.E..- Museum
lighting, Sustainable Development Goals, environmental impact,
people-centred, intergenerational; Saunders, D..- Risk management of
archaeo-paleontological collection from sierra de Atapuerca sites at
CENIEH;De León-Verdasco, S.; Fernįndez-Colón, P.; Lorenzo-Cases, R..- Risk
assessment applied to public-art collections: an integrated tool for
programmed conservation; Gómez Ubierna, M.- Tailor-made protection of
paintings against shock and vibration during transport; Verhoeff, G.; Kracht,
K..- Section 2.- New premises, new challenges: Integrating Preventive
Conservation at the National Library of Greece; Gkinni, Z..- Using Threat
Landscapes as a Preventive Conservation Tool; Garside, P.; Bradford, K..- Use
Image Recognition Combined with Environmental Sensing to Detect the Causes of
Cultural Relics Deterioration; Hung, C.; Chang, C.; Min, F.; Lee, T.; Shao,
C.; Wang.- Conservation of the archeological metallic heritage of Navarra;
Balduz Azcįrate, B.; Sįnchez Delgado, A.C.; Usśa.- Building light risk
categories for the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac collection to
prioritize its microfadotesting and formulate its lighting policy:
whichcriteria to use? How to assess and select the best approach?; Pesme, C;
Kissel, E..- Museum pollutants and preventive conservation: review and future
perspectives.; De Tapol B.V; Alcayde, M.J..- Section
2. Predictive Analysis
of Cultural Objects and Preventative Conservation.- Dynamic indoor climate
conditions for sustainable preventive conservation; Kramer, R.; Neuhaus, E.-
Painting-specific backing boards based on vibration testing and FEM
simulation; Lipp, F.; Kracht, K..- The effect of prior light exposure on the
lightfastness of synthetic dyes; Hagan, E.; Poulin, J..- 2D chemical imaging
for the monitoring of the formation of metal soaps on oil-painted copper and
zinc substrates; Russo, S.; Brambilla, L.; Thomas, J.B.; Joseph, E..- A Study
of Three Modern Asian Lacquers Using Surface Metrology and Data
Science/Analytics; Sheets, H.D.; Ravines, P.; Webb, M..- Proactive
environmental control of storage and exhibition facilities for cultural
heritage through machine learning; Kejser, U.B.; Hansen, B.V.; Ryhl-Svendsen,
M.; Boesgaard.- Multi-scale hybrid model to predict degradation kinetics of
cellulose acetate films; Al Mohtar, A.; Lopes, J.; Neves, A.; Nunes, S.;
Zappi, D.; Varani, G.; Ramos, A.M.; Melo, M.J.; Wallaszkovits, N.; Lahoz
Rodrigo, J.I.; Herlt.- Incorporation of MOF particles in polyurethane foams
for VOCs adsorption in cellulose acetate cultural heritage; Freitas, c.; Al
Mohtar, a.; Neves, m.; Pimenta, V.; Nouar,.- Refinements on Accelerated
Corrosion Testing Development of Sustainable, Reproducible Indicator Plates
and Reaction Vessels; Jeberien, A.; Alktash, N.; Schaffarczyk, S.; Szyszka,
B..- Physico-chemical evaluation of corrosion processes in copper-based model
samples for preventive conservation; Kpa, L.; Gasiorowska, I.; Trybula, M.;
Turczyniak Surdacka, S.; Kalisz, M.; Donten, M.; Bulska, E.; Zschech, E..-
Developing conservation-focused curriculum to advance analysis of temperature
and relative humidity data; Beltran, V.L.; Linden, J.; Cosaert, A..-
Measuring Object Deterioration Rates In-Situ; Thickett, D..- Monitoring
environmental conditions inside display cases: challenges faced in two case
studies; Bauwens, G.; Roels, S..- Supporting preventive conservation
strategies for oil paintings with water transport modelling; Duivenvoorden,
J.R.; Hermans, J.J.;Iedema, P.D.; Keune, K..- Hygro-mechanical modelling of
wooden cultural objects for damage and risk assessment as a tool for
preventive conservation; Stöcklein, J.; Grajcarek, G.; Oertel, S.; Schulze,
A.; Mäder, M.; Kaliske.- New metal-organic frameworks for efficient
adsorption of cellulose-damaging VOC in ambient conditions; Severino, M.I.;
Al Mohtar, A.; Antunes da Silva, K.; Pimenta, V.; Nouar, F.; Pinto, M.L.;
Serre, C..- Section
3. Connectivity, Sensing, and Cloud Computing
Technologies.- Integrated sensing platform for combined relative humidity,
temperature, and corrosiveness measurements; Pantzare, S.; Beni, V.; Becker,
J.; Thierry, D.; Rioual, S.; Lescop, B.; Hurry, S.; Pongratz, H.; Krüger, M.;
Grieco, D.; Chaumat.- More energy input = better collections care output?;
Baars, C.; Jones, G.; Finnegan, S..- Monitoring the technical suitability of
shelter for the preventive conservation os archaeological sites: a fuzzy
logic system applied to Complutum, Spain; Cabello-Briones, C.: Prieto, A.J.;
Ortiz, P.; Barrio, J..- Harnessing data science technology for environmental
monitoring at the V&A; Shah, B..- Performance and reliability of LoRaWAN
sub-GHz networks in cultural institutions, a real world study; McMinn, N..-
Development of low cost RFID sensors dedicated to preventive conservation;
Rioual, S.; Lescop, B.; Pellé, J.; De Alkmim Radicchi, G.; Chaumat, G.;
Bruni, M.D.; Becker, J.; Thierry, D..- Investigating the possibility of using
microchips (aq:bits) for safeguarding special collections; Aleksi, G.;
Orekovi, M.; Krsti, D..- Museum Monitoring (MuMo) Creating a LoRaWan
Datalogger for ModeMuseum Antwerpen with Open Hard- and Software; Suls, A.D..
Įngel F. Perles-Ivars is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Universitat Politčcnica de Valčncia (UPV), Spain. He is a member of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (ITACA), where his research focuses on discrete-event modeling and simulation, embedded systems, and low-power wide-area networks (IoT). He has coordinated several regional, national, and international research projects, including the European Union's H2020 project CollectionCare: Innovative and Affordable Service for the Preventive Conservation Monitoring of Individual Cultural Artefacts during Display, Storage, Handling, and Transport. Currently, he leads the Spanish national project "WiMOSA: Wireless Non-Stop Monitoring System for Heritage Safeguard." Laura Fuster-López is a Professor in the Dept. of Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales at the Universitat Politčcnica de Valčncia. Since 2007 she has been in charge of the research area 'Study of the mechanical and dimensional properties of painting materials at the UPV and is currently leading two national research projects on the study of the formation and propagation of cracks in canvas paintings. She has been coordinator of the Art Panel at the Spanish Research Agency and has served as an expert in various international panels. In 2022 she was elected Fellow of the International Institute of Conservation (UK) for her contribution to the discipline of conservation-restoration. From 2011 to 2021 she was Assistant Coordinator of the Training and Education Working Group of ICOM-CC, and since 2023 she has been President of ENCoRE (European Network for Conservation Restoration Education). Emanuela Bosco is an Associate Professor in the Chair of Applied Mechanics and Design at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her research interest is in the field of computational mechanics, in particular on multi-scale and multi-physics methods focused on different types of applications: degradation of historical art objects, concrete, fibrous networks, granular materials. In 2017 and 2022, she was awarded a VENI and a VIDI research personal grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2023, she was awarded an ERC Starting grant from the European Research Council. Emanuela also holds a Music-Diploma in Viola, obtained at Conservatorium Marenzio of Brescia (Italy).
