Multispectral Analysis of Paper Objects – The Amalgamation of Archaeometry and Conservation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Welcome Address by Minister of State Claudia Roth, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media VII
4. Welcome Address by Markus Hilgert, General Secretary of the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States IX
5. Introduction by Ursula Hartwieg, Director of the KEK XI
6. The Social Importance of the Preservation of Knowledge XXV
7. I International Initiatives and Cooperation
8. Protecting Culture in Crisis – International Cooperation for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Context of the Blue Shield 1
9. The Climate Crisis and Its Impact on Our Cultural Heritage – ‘Strengthening Cultural Heritage Resilience for Climate Change’: A Survey in Europe by the EU OMC Expert Group 19
10. Reflections on Two Decades of the Endangered Archives Programme 29
11. II Preservation Management and National Strategies
12. Managing the Preservation of Originals – Aims, Maxims, Instruments 51
13. Cooperative Preservation – The Regional Legal Deposit Copy as a Basis for a Mass Deacidification Strategy 69
14. Mass Deacidification at the Swiss National Library 85
15. Preservation at the Royal Danish Library – Achievements and Future Perspectives 103
16. III Digital Strategies: Opportunities and Synergies
17. Digital Reconstruction of the Cologne Fragments – How, with the Help of AI, ‘Cologne Flakes’ Are Turned Back into Complete Items 121
18. Simulating the Effect of Preservation Options – Are Archives More Complex than Rockets? 137
19. Disposal of Documents After Mass Digitisation 157
20. Multispectral Analysis of Paper Objects – The Amalgamation of Archaeometry and Conservation 175
21. IV Sustainability and Resource Management
22. Sustainable Conservation of Collections – The Push for Passive 195
23. Sustainable Paper – A Challenge for Preservation? 219
24. The Library of Congress Preservation Directorate – Fiscal and Organisational Sustainability 247
25. Notes on Contributors 265