Advanced Methods in Heritage Science
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 1393
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design, development, and application of instruments for the non-invasive diagnostics of works of art; multispectral imaging (UV-VIS-NIR, THz); OCT (optical coherence tomography); 3D survey; NLOM (nonlinear optical microscopies)
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Interests: development of innovative cleaning systems and evaluation of their efficacy; methodological and experimental advances; applications of spectral-based (imaging) and complementary techniques to study artworks;
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heritage science (HS) is a relatively newly formed domain based on an interdisciplinary approach to study cultural heritage. It builds on knowledge from fundamental sciences (chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology) and arts and humanities (conservation, archaeology, philosophy, ethics, history, art history etc.), including economics, sociology, computer sciences, and engineering. HS contributes to the long-term sustainability of cultural assets by enhancing the understanding, care, and sustainable use of heritage. Materials and techniques of the past are often very complex, and state-of-the-art methods need to be deployed to reveal the composition of heritage materials and their structures, and to deduce their provenance and period of their origin. Heritage science is a dynamic and developing science domain: New approaches and methodologies are pursued for conveying to future generations our cultural heritage and fostering new challenges in the preservation and conservation of works of art. In this respect, this issue aims at collecting scientific research papers describing advances in such methods applied in heritage science, with a focus on innovative aspects of the research, development, and advanced data analysis in the cross-disciplinary context of this emerging field.
Given the wide span of disciplines encompassed by the term heritage science, this Special Issue of Sustainability, entitled “Advanced Methods in Heritage Science”, intends to gather original research papers describing development and/or application of advanced physical, analytical, chemical, and/or statistical methods by showcasing elaborate data collected on the studied heritage objects. The cross-disciplinary approach and its added value will be appreciated.
The goal of this Special Issue is to gather original papers based on the application of novel and stimulating techniques in heritage science, with the main purpose of promoting young scientists’ contributions as well as interdisciplinary works. The focus is to foster awareness and dissemination of advanced techniques for the analysis of works of art in order to spread a scientific approach in the protection and conservation of cultural heritage.
The purpose of this special issue is to emphasize the application of multianalytical and interdisciplinary approaches. Further, the scope includes contributing to the definition of the heritage science domain. This Special Issue is shaping up to be a collection of cutting-edge research applied to cultural heritage of prominent groups at a European level. Applications to relevant case studies will be considered as well. Thorough review papers are also welcome.
Dr. Raffaella Fontana
Dr. Jana Striova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- developments of non-invasive methods to investigate cultural heritage
- progress in subsurface characterization of heritage materials
- innovative 3D systems
- cutting-edge mobile and/or lab-grade instruments
- imaging spectroscopies
- dating technologies
- new methods and materials for the protection of cultural heritage objects
- novel cleaning approaches
- advances in studies of organic materials
- advanced methods for data treatment
- neutron- and synchrotron-based investigation
