This document discusses preservation, conservation, and data curation of historical documents. It provides examples of different types of historical documents like illuminated manuscripts, incunables, and photographs. It then discusses the various threats documents face like water and mold damage, ink corrosion, and vinegar syndrome in microfilms. The document outlines methods for preservation like deacidification processes and disaster preparedness. It also discusses conservation and restoration techniques with the goals of securing the text, respecting the originality and historical traces, and using reversible methods. Case studies of flood damage and fires are presented along with before and after photos of restoration projects.

1. Reinhard Feldmann
Preservation, Conservation
& Data Curation
Introduction
Legaspi: Aquinas University
10th to 12th of April 2014

2. Mediaeval Manuscript (Illuminated prayer-book)

3. Mediaeval manuscript: Hoya-Missal, Illumination

4. Incunable (with woodcut)

5. Rizal: Mi ultimo adios

6. Preservation and conservation
Reinhard Feldmann
Preservation and Conservation
ƒ Bearer of information
ƒ Clay > papyrus > Paper > Microfilm > E-paper
ƒ Medium of writing or printing
ƒ Stylus > Ink > Laser
ƒ Binding and appearance
ƒ „Book“ > Tablet

7. European blook-book

8. Block-book from Mongolia

9. Chinese papermaking

10. German and European papermaking

11. Chinese clay letters (around 1050)

12. Type founders (1568)

13. Printing office (Cologne, 1639)

14. Preservation and Conservation
Preservation and Conservation (1)
ƒ Cooperation
ƒ Education
ƒ Knowledge & research
ƒ Institutional context & workflow
ƒ Financial equipment

15. Preservation and Conservation (2)
ƒ General remarks
ƒ Paper decay and mass neutralisation
ƒ Desaster preparedness
ƒ Individual restauration / single item
treatment
Preservation and Conservation

16. Damage through Water

17. Mould after Damage through Water

18. Ink corrosion (paper)

19. Microfilms: Vinegar syndrom

20. Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access

21. Preservation and Conservation (2)
ƒ General remarks
ƒ Paper decay and mass neutralisation
ƒ Desaster preparedness
ƒ Individual restauration / single item
treatment
Preservation and Conservation

22. Deacidification methods
Deacidification methods
ƒ Papersave
ƒ PapersaveSwiss
ƒ CBC:2
ƒ Bückeburg Conservation Process

23. „Deacidification methods“
PapersaveSwiss

24. „Deacidification methods“
CBCL:2 (Leipzig, Germany)

25. Deacidification methods
BCP Bückeburg Conservation Process

26. Deacidification methods
BCP – Single sheet

27. Deacidification methods
BCP - Books

28. Preservation and Conservation (2)
ƒ General remarks
ƒ Paper decay and mass neutralisation
ƒ Desaster preparedness
ƒ Individual restauration / single item
treatment
Preservation and Conservation

29. Flood in Dresden 2002

30. Fire in Weimar 2004
Brandkatastrophe in Weimar 2004

31. Breakdown Historical Archive Cologne

32. Preservation and Conservation (2)
ƒ General remarks
ƒ Paper decay and mass neutralisation
ƒ Desaster preparedness
ƒ Individual restauration / single item
treatment
Preservation and Conservation

33. „preservation and restauration“
Rizal: Noli me tangere – before restauration

34. „preservation and restauration“
Rizal: Noli me tangere – after restauration

35. „preservation and restauration“
Basic considerations
1. Books are cultural assets
2. Securing text and “intrinsic value“
3. Restoration begins with dicussion
4. Full restoration or „minimal intervention“?
5. Originality & Historical traces
6. Concluding age and history

36. „preservation and restauration“
Demands towards the restorer
1. Use existing material, replacement only due
to technical, not to aesthetic reasons
2. Reversability
3. Restauration method must be justified
4. Documentation of restauration and methods
5. No loss of information

37. „preservation and restauration“
Rizal: Noli me tangere – during restauration