Conserv Monthly — May 2, 2023
Cultural Heritage & War in Ukraine | AI in Libraries | European Conservation Tech
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Cultural Heritage and the War in Ukraine
As the war drags on the number of damaged cultural sites keeps rising — so far, it's over 3,000 schools, and 200 cultural institutions, including over 100 religious sites, 18 museums, 11 libraries and historical monuments.
Putin’s War on Ukrainian Memory
Librarians and archivists in Ukraine today are fighting to retain control of the country’s institutional repositories of memory. The bodies of knowledge for which they are responsible are under attack from Russian forces. Read More?(Non-Paywalled)
Inside the Efforts to Preserve Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage
“If we lose our culture we lose our identity" — Experts and civilians alike are working to protect Ukraine's art, artifacts and scientific specimens. Read More
UNESCO: Ukraine war badly impacting cultural heritage
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. In an interview with DW, Roman Luckscheiter of the German Commission for UNESCO explains how Ukrainian culture has been threatened and what can be done. Read More
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Artificial Intelligence in Libraries
Bill Gates commented that new artifical intelligence tools are "as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the internet, and the mobile phone." So how will artificial intelligence (and ChatGPT in particular) change the way librarians do their work?
New Workflows for Access and Discovery
Matt Miller, librarian at Library of Congress, explores applying GPT3/3.5/4 on a full text collection. What sort of workflows could be built using this technology in libraries and archives to facilitate access and discovery? Read More
ChatGPT and the Future of Libraries
"You’ve probably heard something about ChatGPT. You might have even signed up for an account and used it. I have, it’s awesome." ChatGPT is a type of artificial intelligence that can understand and generate natural language text. Basically, you can ask it a question or give it a prompt and it will give you an eerily human-sounding response. How might this affect libraries? Read More
7 ways artificial intelligence is changing libraries
The development of innovative technology has reshaped the way we consume, access, process, and distribute information. Artificial intelligence has been a major force driving this change. Read More
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European conservation technology
The EU is building technological capacity in preventive conservation through public investment in academia and technology transfer. Here are three EU-funded conservation technology startups that have caught our attention (and they’ve received nearly $20M in grants from the EU). It’s certainly a very different funding model than NEH/IMLS, and it will be interesting to see if these projects achieve commercial sustainability.
SensMat
SensMat aims to develop and implement effective, low cost, eco-innovative and user-friendly sensors, models and decision-making tools, as well as recommendations and guidelines to enable prediction and prevention of degradation of artefacts as a function of environmental conditions.?EU has contributed $6M in grant funding. Read More
Apache
APACHE aim is to find a solution to the long-term preservation questions raised by billions of objects collected in museum, library and archive storages by developing: multi-scale modelling to predict Cultural Heritage degradation; new generation of active and intelligent storage crates, archive boxes and display cases to improve storage and exhibition; collaborative decision-making tools for preventive maintenance.?EU has contributed $7M in grant funding. Read More
CollectionCare
CollectionCare is a monitoring system for individual cultural artifacts — an innovative and affordable service for the Preventive Conservation monitoring of individual Cultural Artefacts during display, storage, handling and transport.?EU has contributed $6M in grant funding. Read More
Upcoming Events (Conserv Community)
Introduction to the Care of Outdoor Metal Collections with CCI?— Join the BCMA and the Canadian Conservation Institute for this three-part webinar series that provides a general overview of metal objects, such as public art and architecture, that are usually found outdoors.
Webinar Series: Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments?— This three-part webinar series can serve as an introduction or refresher course on the fundamentals of sustainable preservation environmental management. Each webinar summarizes key concepts outlined in IPI’s Guide to Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments.
Exhibiting Your Collections?— This webinar will help you understand the risks of exhibition so that you can develop policies and guidelines to mitigate those risks.
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