[en] Science and Heritage project
Scientific analyses can become powerful tools for heritage professionals, when properly proposed and suitably conducted; which means using the appropriate method, within correct timing of the project. This necessitates not only appropriate and clear questions according to the objectives of the research and the conservation needs, but also a prior deep understanding of the site and its relation to different external parameters.
Following the anamnesis of the building we propose a checklist of distinctive questions the team of heritage professionals need to discuss and clarify with the scientists, in order to get the most out of their analysis:
What do I wish to clarify? (Date? Technology? Morphology? Composition? Alteration?)
How accurate responses do I need?
How much time does the analysis require? When the results will arrive in the timeline of the project?
Is it expensive? Can the project afford it?
Can it be conducted in situ?
Is destructive or non-destructive? Does it require sampling?
How many samples are necessary for an accurate response?
What kind of answers do I get? (Chemical elements? Graphics? Absolute or Relative dates?)
Research Center/Unit :
Diadrasis Coordinacion Nacional de Conservacion del Patrimonio Historico of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico CEA - Centre Européen en Archéométrie - ULiège
Disciplines :
Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others Art & art history
Author, co-author :
Blain, Sophie ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences historiques > Labo de dendrochronologie
Dimitrakopoulou, Ariadni
Gomez-Robles, Lucia
Tapini, Laura-Melpomeni
Language :
English
Title :
Viaduct, a communication tool for scientific analysis in heritage
