Title
Standardizing NDT& E Techniques and Conservation Metadata for Cultural Artifacts.
Abstract
Conservation activities, before and after decay detection, are considered as a prerequisite for maintaining cultural artifacts in their initial/original form. Taking into account the strict regulations where sampling from art works of great historical value is restricted or in many cases prohibited, the application of Non-Destructive Testing techniques (NDTs) during the conservation or even decay detection is highly appreciated by conservators. Non-destructive examination include the employment of multiple analysis approaches and techniques namely Infrared Thermography (IRT), Ultrasonics (US), Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), VIS-NIR Fiber Optics Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS), portable X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis (ESEM-EDX), Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and micro-Raman Spectroscopy. These produce a huge amount of data, in different formats, such as text, numerical sets and visual objects (i.e. images, thermograms, radargrams, spectral data, graphs, etc). Moreover, conservation documentation presents major drawbacks, as fragmentation and incomplete description of the related information is usually the case. Assigning conservation data to the objects' metadata collection is very rare and not yet standardized. The Doc-Culture Project aims to provide solutions for the NDT application methodologies, analysis and process along with their output data and all related conservation documentation. The preliminary results are discussed in this paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-24129-6_38
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Conservation,Cultural objects,Non-destructive testing techniques,CIDOC,Dublin core,Metadata,kNN classifier
Visual Objects,Data mining,Metadata,Thermography,Ground-penetrating radar,Information retrieval,Computer science,Nondestructive testing,Sampling (statistics),Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform,Documentation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
544
1865-0929
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
15