Conservation Wiki

  • 1.  AIC BPG Wiki Edit-a-Thon - contribute photos this January!

    Posted 22 days ago

    January is Wiki edit-a-thon month! Please help us update and add content to the BPG Wiki. This year, we would love contributions of images to add to our pages. All pages could benefit from additional images, but the paper-specific pages often have none or very few images. 

    Here is a list of specific photos that would greatly benefit our pages:

    Conservation equipment: various Japanese lining brushes, surface cleaning materials (sponges, brushes, erasers, etc.), adhesives, humidification equipment (sprays, humidification chamber), etc.

    Paper condition issues: mat burn, photo-oxidation, stains, old tapes, tears, foxing, media problems, etc.

    Paper conservation treatment: washing (immersion, capillary, etc.), lining setups, mending, fills, inpainting, tape removal, consolidation, etc.

    Paper and paper-like supports: Japanese papers, palm leaf, pith paper, tapa, ivory, collage, restrained papers, fans, etc.

    Book topics: book boards identification images, board attachment examples (adhered boards, split boards), etc.

    All images should be your own work and copyright-free, and should be a .png or .jpg file format. Please provide a short caption of what is being pictured (1-2 sentences) and the photographer name.

    If you have a wiki editor account, feel free to upload them yourself using the AIC Wiki file upload page, otherwise please email us with your contributions at bookandpapergroup.wiki@gmail.com!



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    Sandrine Blais (she/her)

    Assistant Paper Conservator
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Paper Coordinator
    AIC Book and Paper Group Wiki
    bookandpapergroup.wiki@gmail.com
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  • 2.  RE: AIC BPG Wiki Edit-a-Thon - contribute photos this January!

    Posted 22 hours ago

    Hello All!

    As our Edit-a-thon month draws to a close, we are still looking forward to your photo contributions to the BPG Wiki! Even some of our most well-edited pages would benefit from additional or updated illustrative photos of particular object varietals, types of damage, tools, and treatment techniques. If you've recently completed photo-documentation for a treatment you're particularly proud of, or snapped something interesting from the stacks, we hope you'll share!

    All images should be your own work and copyright-free, and should be a .png or .jpg file format. Please provide a short caption of what is being pictured (1-2 sentences) and the photographer name.

    If you have a wiki editor account, feel free to upload them yourself using the AIC Wiki file upload page, otherwise please email us with your contributions at bookandpapergroup.wiki@gmail.com!



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    Mitchel Gundrum (he/they)

    Book Coordinator
    AIC Book and Paper Group Wiki
    bookandpapergroup.wiki@gmail.com
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