Reinhard Feldmann

Preservation, Conservation& Data Curation

Introduction

Legaspi: Aquinas University10th to 12th of April 2014

Library Brothers Grimm

Library of Richard Wagner

Library of Friedrich Nietzsche

Sarajevo

Timbuktu

Mediaeval Manuscript (Illuminated prayer-book)

Mediaeval manuscript: Hoya-Missal, Illumination

Incunable (with woodcut)

Rizal: Mi ultimo adios

Preservation and conservation

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Preservation and Conservation

Bearer of information

Clay > papyrus > Paper > Microfilm > E-paper

Medium of writing or printing

Stylus > Ink > Laser

Binding and appearance

„Book“ > Tablet

Portrait of the inventor of paper, Tsai Lun

Johannes Gutenberg (1400 – 1468)

Tripitaka Koreana

European blook-book

Block-book from Mongolia

Chinese papermaking

German and European papermaking

Chinese clay letters (around 1050)

Type founders (1568)

Printing office (Cologne, 1639)

Media revolution

Historical incision: „Media revolution“

Division of labor

Beginning of industrial mass production

First „mass medium“

Realisation by contemporaries

Long way to mass media

Long way to public access to knowledge

Preservation and Conservation

Preservation and Conservation (1)

Cooperation

Education

Knowledge & research

Institutional context & workflow

Financial equipment

Ten aspects of conservation:

“Damage-Survey“

“Passive conservation“: climate und storage

Conservatory measures: book care and “boxing“

Restoration ethics and philosophy

Individual restoration / Original conservation

Mass deacidification (and prevention: paper!)

Paper splitting

Microfilming and Digitalization

Emergency management / Emergency precautions

Organisation and finance

Preservation and Conservation

Preservation and Conservation (2)

General remarks

Paper decay and mass neutralisation

Desaster preparedness

Individual restauration / single item treatment

Preservation and Conservation

Damage through Water

Mould after Damage through Water

Ink corrosion (paper)

Microfilms: Vinegar syndrom

Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access

Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe

Preservation and Conservation (2)

General remarks

Paper decay and mass neutralisation

Desaster preparedness

Individual restauration / single item treatment

Preservation and Conservation

Deacidification methods

Deacidification methods

Papersave

PapersaveSwiss

CBC:2

Bückeburg Conservation Process

„Deacidification methods“

PapersaveSwiss

„Deacidification methods“

CBCL:2 (Leipzig, Germany)

Deacidification methods

BCP Bückeburg Conservation Process

Deacidification methods

BCP – Single sheet

Deacidification methods

BCP - Books

Preservation and Conservation (2)

General remarks

Paper decay and mass neutralisation

Desaster preparedness

Individual restauration / single item treatment

Preservation and Conservation

Flood in Dresden 2002

Fire in Weimar 2004

Brandkatastrophe in Weimar 2004

Breakdown Historical Archive Cologne

Preservation and Conservation (2)

General remarks

Paper decay and mass neutralisation

Desaster preparedness

Individual restauration / single item treatment

Preservation and Conservation

„preservation and restauration“

Rizal: Noli me tangere – before restauration

„preservation and restauration“

Rizal: Noli me tangere – after restauration

„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

„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

„preservation and restauration“

Rizal: Noli me tangere – during restauration

Preservation and conservation

Reinhard Feldmann

Conclusion:

„The cultural tradition contained in libraries,

archives and museums is a spitritual home for

the nation. We need it, even and in particular

as we look forwards and pursue our path into

the future.“

Federal President of Germany Horst Köhler

(Reopening Weimar Library 2007)