See also Digital Imaging
The AIC Code of Ethics treats the topic of documentation in its Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice. See especially the 'Commentaries which cover the topic in some depth. For an historical view see Evolution of the AIC Code of Ethics/Guidelines for Practice
"MDA is funded by the Museum & Gallery Commission (MGC) to encourage best practice in all aspects of museum documentation. This task has many aspects, and perhaps the simplest way to understand it is to say that we do for documentation what the MGC does for a broader range of museum issues.
"Firstly we raise awareness of the importance of documentation. New collections and new displays may be more fun, but any object is the poorer without the associated information which tells its story. Likewise, if you can't find it, or can't tell others that you have it, or when you last conserved it, or can't say for sure that you own it, then curatorial effectiveness is, at best, diminished.
"SPECTRUM: The UK Museum Documentation Standard represents a common understanding of good practice for museum documentation, established in partnership with the museum community. It contains procedures for documenting objects and the processes they undergo, as well as identifying and describing the information which needs to be recorded to support the procedures."
Text drawn from the author's standard treatment proposal agreement. (Excerpt from an item posted in Conservation DistList Instance: 12:4, Thursday, June 18, 1998)
"(as published in the ICOM Ethnographic Conservation Newsletter, Number 17, April 1998. pp. 18-21.)". Includes information on products and links to resources at other sites.
Computers and new imaging technologies are fast becoming an integral part of the work of conservation. Conservators and scientists in the Straus Center for Conservation, located in the Fogg Art Museum, have been at the forefront of research into these technologies.
This interactive program demonstrates the ways in which computer technology can be harnessed to add to our knowledge about Renaissance paintings and how they were made.
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