scholarly journals Developing a GIS of Hazards for Canadian Cultural Institutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e26305
Author(s):  
Tom Strang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Relative Magnitude ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Federal Initiatives ◽  
Statistics Canada ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Heating Degree Days

The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) has developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) of hazards for Canadian cultural heritage institutions. The greatly increased access to open data is changing how advisory bodies like the CCI and the public can access and share information. For the purpose of investigating how a GIS approach can assist the CCI with its mandate to improve the preservation of collections, a map layer of cultural heritage institutions across Canada has been assembled and continues to be upgraded for accuracy, inclusion and detail (Fig. 1). This was combined with a collation of hazard layers; a partial list includes: seismic risk, notably expectations of earthquake severity tied to improvements in the national building code, tsunami exposure, wildfire data, hurricane, tornado, lightning density, pest distribution, and energy use indicators such as heating degree days and climate norm data. The platform allows examination of expectations around climate change driven risks such as sea-level rise, storm-incursions, permafrost melt. The GIS approach will also allow reassessments around expected changes to flood risk maps issued by jurisdictions, as well as Statistics Canada layers on population related factors such as changes in numbers of local populations, income and demographic shifts which can be stressors or opportunities. Sources have been drawn from federal, provincial, municipal, and academic evaluations of hazards, which now are more commonly published as GIS products. Mapping Canadian heritage institution's within a GIS improves our ability to: visualise and interpret to clients the relative magnitude of their local hazards, make ties to more refined local analyses, and show adjacencies to mapped historical events. From a national perspective the GIS can generate profiles of aggregated institutional exposure to the hazards, and more readily identify sub-populations of institutions for which particular risks would rank higher or lower among their concerns. This improves CCI's preventive conservation advisory service's perspective on mappable risks for any institution we deal with as clients. Ultimately, through federal initiatives in open data, it is our intention that client groups can look at the GIS for the purpose of educating themselves on hazards they would want to prepare for.

scholarly journals The Role of Information Management for the Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4325
Author(s):  
Jaione Korro Bañuelos ◽  
Álvaro Rodríguez Miranda ◽  
José Manuel Valle-Melón ◽  
Ainara Zornoza-Indart ◽  
Manuel Castellano-Román ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Information Models ◽  
Wild Grapevine ◽  
Concept Of Information

Central to the entire discipline of heritage restoration and conservation is the concept of information management. Nevertheless, traditionally, conservation and restoration has been a poorly documented discipline, which has led not only to a lack of standardization and awareness about the processes carried out in the past, but also poses problems both when new restoration works are necessary and for the preventive conservation of the elements of heritage. This study sets out to propose a conceptual framework to explore the relationship between conservation of heritage and information management on the basis of case studies; in particular: a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) of a regional government concerning an endangered plant (wild grapevine) with an important potential for cultural and touristic uses in a wine-making region; an open data guide—the Digital Guide of Andalusian Cultural Heritage; a university repository connected to Europeana, which contains reports and outcomes of projects of geometric documentation of elements of heritage; a repository of an organization in charge of the protection and care of the heritage; and finally, two examples of the use of heritage building information models (HBIM) in complex monuments. After discussing the characteristics of each case, this paper concludes that, although the availability of information and tools is growing, further progress is still necessary concerning the interoperability, outreach and reuse of the different solutions.

Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and Its Applications for Ceramic Analysis

2016 ◽  
pp. 381-398
Author(s):  
Marcia Rizzutto ◽  
Manfredo Tabacniks
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Ceramic Analysis ◽  
Pixe Analysis ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects ◽  
History Of Migration ◽  
Non Destructive

Systematic research into art and cultural heritage objects in museum collections are growing daily across the world. They are generally undertaken in partnership with archaeologists, curators, historians, conservators, and restorers. The use of scientific methods to answer specific questions about objects produced by different societies reveals the materials and technologies used in the past and gives us a better understanding of the history of migration processes, cultural characteristics, and thereby more grounded parameters for the preservation and conservation of cultural heritage. The use of non-destructive methods, such as the PIXE analysis, is very suitable in such studies because damage or alteration is avoided and the integrity of the object maintained. Such techniques gave historians and curators at the Archaeological and Ethnology Museum in São Paulo new understanding of the Chimu collection of ceramics as well as of the technical process of preventive conservation.

scholarly journals Preventive Archaeology Based on Open Remote Sensing Data and Tools: The Cases of Sant’Arsenio (SA) and Foggia (FG), Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicodemo Abate ◽  
Rosa Lasaponara
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Oil Pipelines ◽  
Specific Reason ◽  
Sentinel 2

Sentinel-2 data have been used in various fields of human activity. In cultural heritage, their potential is still to be fully explored. This paper aims to illustrate how remote sensing and open source tools are useful for archaeological investigations. The whole issue revolves around the application of satellite (Sentinel-2) and accessory tools for the identification, knowledge and protection of the cultural heritage of two areas of southern Italy: Sant’Arsenio (SA) and Foggia (FG). Both study cases were selected for a specific reason: to demonstrate the usefulness of open data and software for research and preservation of cultural heritage, as in the case of urban sprawl, development of public works (gas- and oil-pipelines, etc.) or intensive use of land for agricultural purposes. The results obtained are relevant for the knowledge improvement and very useful to operate in the field of preventive archaeology, for the evaluation and management of risk, the planning of city-expansion or infrastructures that could damage the buried heritage.

scholarly journals Vernacular Farm Buildings and Rural Landscape: A Geospatial Approach for Their Integrated Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Cillis ◽  
Dina Statuto ◽  
Pietro Picuno
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Landscape Studies ◽  
Basilicata Region ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Farm Buildings

Over the centuries, farm buildings, which accompany the development of agriculture, have played an important role in defining spatial and environmental planning. In some European countries in particular, these rural structures have been built based on traditional agricultural needs and typical land characteristics. Considering the land abandonment that has occurred over the last five decades, with farmers moving to more comfortable residences in neighboring urban settlements, historical farm buildings have often been abandoned, thus causing a leakage of the historical-cultural heritage of the rural landscape. Nowadays, open data and geographic technologies together with advanced technological tools allow us to gather multidisciplinary information about the specific characteristics of each farm building, thus improving our knowledge. This information can greatly support the protection of those buildings and landscapes that have high cultural and naturalistic value. In this paper, the potential of Geographic Information Systems to catalogue the farm buildings of the Basilicata region (Southern Italy) is explored. The analysis of these buildings, traditionally known as masserie, integrates some typical aspects of landscape studies, paving the way for sustainable management of the important cultural heritage represented by vernacular farm buildings and the rural landscape.

scholarly journals Trajetória de casos de hanseníase e fatores relacionados/Trajectory of leprosy cases and related factors

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cosme Rezende Laurino ◽  
Sarah Lamas Vidal ◽  
Bernadete Marinho Bara De Martin Gama ◽  
Liliany Fontes Loures ◽  
Gilmara Aparecida Batista Fernandes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Open Data Kit

Objetivou-se analisar a trajetória dos casos diagnosticados com hanseníase e os fatores relacionados, com enfoque nas ações de prevenção e controle preconizadas pelo Ministério da Saúde. Estudo transversal de natureza descritiva. Os dados foram coletados através de questionário estruturado em visitas domiciliares, com uso do programa Open Data Kit collect. Foram exportados, tratados e analisados no Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS®) v. 24. Para o cálculo do diagnóstico tardio considerou-se três variáveis, bastando a presença de uma: passar por mais de um serviço de saúde; mais de uma vez; ou mais de seis meses entre primeiros sinais e sintomas até o diagnóstico efetivo. Dos participantes: 69,6% aos primeiros sintomas procuraram o serviço de saúde mais próximo; 43,5% procuraram a Unidade Básica de Saúde de referência; 73,9% relataram demora menor ou igual a um mês para consulta; 34,8% diagnosticados em ambulatório de referência; 82,6% diagnosticados tardiamente; não houve participação em sala de espera ou grupo educativo com o tema hanseníase em unidades básicas de saúde de referência; 21,7% negaram acesso a orientações ao autocuidado. Percebeu-se dificuldade operacional evidenciada por diagnóstico tardio e inadequação das ações de prevenção e controle da hanseníase preconizadas pelo Ministério da Saúde.

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