Evidence for Informed Preservation Planning and Advocacy: A Synoptic View

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We argue the need to demonstrate the value of preservation services to institutions, the public and funders, because it matters conceptually and needs to be supported and validated. To address this imperative, improved and focused data capture and its use by collection managers is advocated as the necessary first step towards the development of an evidence-based culture for preservation services and synoptic decision-making, where evidence enables us to optimise the outcome of planning. To do so, we need tools that enable us to evaluate diverse preservation scenarios. We demonstrate the potential of emerging cross-disciplinary tools and protocols developed in the recent years such as attitude surveys, computational modelling and demographic modelling. These offer evidence that informs prospective preservation planning and, importantly, provides a credible evidence base for advocacy. These possibilities are discussed within the wider context of well-established preservation planning protocols that have shaped collection management for three decades, broadly characterised as retrospective.     

Preventive Conservation: People,Objects, Place and Time in the Philippines

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Preventive conservation, with its origins grounded in the material fabric of cultural material, is in a period of transformation, with numerous practitioners, in and outside of the field of conservation, considering its broader and holistic objectives. The conventional tools for the assertion of preventive conservation principles, namely the assessment and management of risks to cultural material from the ‘ten agents of deterioration’, have a central focus on the primacy of physical materials and degradation, with less clear relationships with people, place, and time in their modelling. With a case study focus on collections in the Philippines, this paper argues for a practice of preventive conservation that incorporates a balanced assessment and broader thinking around the contexts of objects, people, place, and time. The case studies of ecclesiastical Church collections, and museum environments in the Philippines, demonstrate how the interdependency of objects, people, place and time forms a holistic and conceptual preventive conservation framework. Through a cyclic renegotiation of these four parameters, this paper speculates on the gaps and opportunities for an inclusive view of preventive conservation that is current and more sustainable.     

The Imperative of Soft Skill Development in Preventive Conservation Practice and Training

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Cultural heritage is wonderfully diverse and as heritage preservation professionals, it is our duty to address the preventive conservation of all cultural heritages. However, there is no one set of guidelines, practices or rules that can be applied in all situations. A preventive conservator with strong technical and soft skills is essential in this situation. At the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), preventive conservation has been an identifiable part of the curriculum since the early 1980s. From its establishment, the curriculum has evolved to include the teaching of both current day technical skills for the practice of preventive conservation and soft skills in teamwork, leadership, institutional priorities and goals identification, and written and oral communication. These are taught to all students in their first year and those that select the option of a preventive conservation minor in their second year. Recently, it has become clear that it is not possible to teach adequately both the technical and soft skills needed for the practice of preventive conservation within WUDPAC's existing minor area of study. Additional time is needed to study and develop the complex theories, abilities and requisite skills that characterize the preventive conservation specialty. This paper discusses the work to develop a curriculum for a WUDPAC preventive conservation major, the strong mandate to continue to teach both technical and soft skills, and the surprising resistance to the establishment of a preventive conservation major.     

证据·记忆·遗产:我国破产企业档案管理组织模式研究

破产企业档案对维护公民合法权益、构建企业记忆、传承工业精神具有不可替代的作用。为解决我国破产企业档案管理处置方式不足的缺憾．主要从宏观角度以理论支撑提出我国破产企业档案管理三层次组织模型,即以档案价值理论为指导建立以城市为单元的工商档案管理中心,以社会记忆理论为依据构建破产企业记忆,以文化遗产保护理论为根据探索企业文化遗产的存在形式,并佐以相应的案例实证分析。     

非线性守恒律的高阶谱粘性方法

1IntroductionIn this paper,we consider the following2π-periodicnonlinear conservationlaw tu(x,t) xf(u(x,t))=0,00(1)withu(x,0)=u0(x).The problem(1)may deve-lopshock discontinuities even for smoothu0andf[1].Ingeneral,we must consider the weak notion of solu-tion.To guarantee the uniqueness of the weak solu-tion,one of the various equivalent entropy conditions,such as[1,2],withF(u)≡∫uU′(ω)f′(ω)dω,tU(u) xF(u)≤0,Uconvex(2)is i mposed.The spatialL2norm of the entropy solu-tion d…     

生物技术与国计民生

本文介绍了生物技术的定义、范围以及在国民经济中的作用。