preservation
Let an agent explain preservation as an activity across heritage, science and other domains, relay conservation principles, methods and standards, describe training and profession, and distinguish preservation from restoration and from data preservation.
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Concept What preservation is.
Definition
Definition and domains.
Definition
Definition.
- What is preservation, and in which domains is it practised? definition
- Is the question about heritage preservation, specimens, records, food or data? boundary
Distinctions
Preservation, conservation, restoration.
Distinctions
Distinctions.
- How do preservation, conservation and restoration differ? definition
- Which entry fits the specific domain? action
Practice Methods and standards.
Preventive
Preventive care.
Preventive
Preventive.
- How do environment control, handling and storage prevent damage? provenance
- Which entry fits preventive conservation? action
Treatments
Treatments.
Treatments
Treatments.
- What treatments are used for objects, photographs and antiquities, and what ethical principles apply? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Profession Profession and training.
Training
Training.
Training
Training.
- How are conservators trained, including conservation and restoration degrees? provenance
- Which entry fits conservator? action
Ethics
Ethics and codes.
Ethics
Ethics.
- What ethical codes govern conservation, and what debates exist, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Domains Other domains.
Buildings
Buildings and mothballing.
Buildings
Buildings.
- How are buildings and equipment preserved or mothballed? provenance
- Which entry fits building conservation? action
Records
Records and specimens.
Records
Records.
- How are archives, digital records and natural history specimens preserved? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.PRC
- Other names and narrower kinds
- specimen preservation, antiquities conservation, preventive care, Master of Science in Conservation and Restoration, conservation and restoration of photographs, mothballing, museum conservation, insect preservation, antiques restoration, preservation of skin, biological preservation
What it is Filled
The activity of keeping something in its existing state and protecting it from decay, damage or loss, applied to cultural heritage through conservation and restoration of objects, buildings, photographs and antiquities, to natural specimens through preservation methods, to buildings and equipment through mothballing, and to records, food and biological materials; preservation includes preventive care that controls environment and handling, and is practised by trained conservators.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain preservation as an activity across heritage, science and other domains, relay conservation principles, methods and standards, describe training and profession, and distinguish preservation from restoration and from data preservation.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Maintains existing state
- Preventive and remedial
- Professional practice
- Ethical codes
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Carry out or recommend irreversible treatments on heritage objects without conservators.
- Discard or alter originals during digitisation or rehousing.
- Handle sacred or culturally sensitive items against the wishes of their communities.
- Present a reconstruction as an original.
Only with a human decision
- Choosing a treatment for a heritage item.
- Deciding what to keep and what to discard from a collection.
May
- Describe preservation principles for heritage objects, buildings, nature and records.
- Monitor storage conditions such as temperature and humidity for collections it is authorized to watch.
- Distinguish preservation from restoration and reconstruction.
Moral aspects Filled
- Preservation choices decide what future generations inherit.
- Communities whose heritage is preserved have a say in how it is kept.
Who is affected
- Source communities
- Future generations
- Collections and their users
Owners Filled
Steward
The owner or custodian of what is preserved, such as a museum, archive or heritage body.
Master systems
- Museum and archive collection records
- Heritage registers
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1914636 - registry parent class
- Q2251595 - registry parent class
related
- protection - in registry terms
- activity - in registry terms
- restoration - which changes state
- conservator - the profession
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.preservation-q1479406
- Wikidata: Q1479406 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479406)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Protecting from decay and loss
- Heritage, specimens, buildings, records and materials
- Restoration returns to a former state; preservation maintains the current one
- Not a visible object; controlled environments, treatments and protective storage.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept and domains
- relay principles and methods
- describe training and profession
- distinguish from restoration and other senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Damage from poor environment or handling
- Irreversible treatments
- Confusing preservation with restoration
- Sense confusion with food or data preservation
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- ICOM and national conservator ethics codes
- Museum and archive standards for environment and handling
- Heritage legislation
- Standards for specimen and record preservation
Context of use required Filled
- Keeping things from decay, damage or loss.
- conservation and restoration of cultural heritage including antiquities and photographs
- preventive conservation and care
- preservation of natural history specimens
- mothballing of buildings and equipment
- archival and digital preservation
- food and biological preservation as related senses
- training such as conservation degrees
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1479406: preservation - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia (de): Konservierung - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should conservation-restoration and digital preservation be separate primary entries?
- How should professional standards be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specialisms and a degree; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1479406/spec.json