1) The document discusses preservation, conservation, and data curation of libraries and historical documents. It covers topics like paper decay over time, disaster preparedness, deacidification methods, and restoration techniques. 2) Key aspects of preservation and conservation discussed include cooperation, education, research, financial resources, addressing paper decay, disaster planning, and individual restoration treatments. 3) The conclusion emphasizes that libraries, archives, and museums contain important cultural traditions that serve as a spiritual home for nations, especially as societies progress into the future.

1. Reinhard Feldmann
Preservation, Conservation
& Data Curation
Introduction
Legaspi: Aquinas University
10th to 12th of April 2014

2. Library Brothers Grimm

3. Library of Richard Wagner

4. Library of Friedrich Nietzsche

5. Sarajevo

6. Timbuktu

7. Mediaeval Manuscript (Illuminated prayer-book)

8. Mediaeval manuscript: Hoya-Missal, Illumination

9. Incunable (with woodcut)

10. Rizal: Mi ultimo adios

11. Preservation and conservation
Reinhard Feldmann
Preservation and Conservation
 Bearer of information
 Clay > papyrus > Paper > Microfilm > E-paper
 Medium of writing or printing
 Stylus > Ink > Laser
 Binding and appearance
 „Book“ > Tablet

12. Portrait of the inventor of paper, Tsai Lun

13. Johannes Gutenberg (1400 – 1468)

14. Tripitaka Koreana

15. European blook-book

16. Block-book from Mongolia

17. Chinese papermaking

18. German and European papermaking

19. Chinese clay letters (around 1050)

20. Type founders (1568)

21. Printing office (Cologne, 1639)

22. Media revolution
Historical incision: „Media revolution“
 Division of labor
 Beginning of industrial mass production
 First „mass medium“
 Realisation by contemporaries
 Long way to mass media
 Long way to public access to knowledge

23. Preservation and Conservation
Preservation and Conservation (1)
 Cooperation
 Education
 Knowledge & research
 Institutional context & workflow
 Financial equipment

24. Ten aspects of conservation:
 “Damage-Survey“
 “Passive conservation“: climate und storage
 Conservatory measures: book care and “boxing“
 Restoration ethics and philosophy
 Individual restoration / Original conservation
 Mass deacidification (and prevention: paper!)
 Paper splitting
 Microfilming and Digitalization
 Emergency management / Emergency precautions
 Organisation and finance
Preservation and Conservation

25. Preservation and Conservation (2)
 General remarks
 Paper decay and mass neutralisation
 Desaster preparedness
 Individual restauration / single item
treatment
Preservation and Conservation

26. Damage through Water

27. Mould after Damage through Water

28. Ink corrosion (paper)

29. Microfilms: Vinegar syndrom

30. Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access

31. Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe

32. Preservation and Conservation (2)
 General remarks
 Paper decay and mass neutralisation
 Desaster preparedness
 Individual restauration / single item
treatment
Preservation and Conservation

33. Deacidification methods
Deacidification methods
 Papersave
 PapersaveSwiss
 CBC:2
 Bückeburg Conservation Process

34. „Deacidification methods“
PapersaveSwiss

36. „Deacidification methods“
CBCL:2 (Leipzig, Germany)

37. Deacidification methods
BCP Bückeburg Conservation Process

38. Deacidification methods
BCP – Single sheet

39. Deacidification methods
BCP - Books

40. Preservation and Conservation (2)
 General remarks
 Paper decay and mass neutralisation
 Desaster preparedness
 Individual restauration / single item
treatment
Preservation and Conservation

41. Flood in Dresden 2002

42. Fire in Weimar 2004
Brandkatastrophe in Weimar 2004

43. Breakdown Historical Archive Cologne

44. Preservation and Conservation (2)
 General remarks
 Paper decay and mass neutralisation
 Desaster preparedness
 Individual restauration / single item
treatment
Preservation and Conservation

45. „preservation and restauration“
Rizal: Noli me tangere – before restauration

46. „preservation and restauration“
Rizal: Noli me tangere – after restauration

47. „preservation and restauration“
Basic considerations
1. Books are cultural assets
2. Securing text and “intrinsic value“
3. Restoration begins with dicussion
4. Full restoration or „minimal intervention“?
5. Originality & Historical traces
6. Concluding age and history

48. „preservation and restauration“
Demands towards the restorer
1. Use existing material, replacement only due
to technical, not to aesthetic reasons
2. Reversability
3. Restauration method must be justified
4. Documentation of restauration and methods
5. No loss of information

49. „preservation and restauration“
Rizal: Noli me tangere – during restauration

50. Preservation and conservation
Reinhard Feldmann
Conclusion:
„The cultural tradition contained in libraries,
archives and museums is a spitritual home for
the nation. We need it, even and in particular
as we look forwards and pursue our path into
the future.“
Federal President of Germany Horst Köhler
(Reopening Weimar Library 2007)