Cardiff University Capability for Collections

我们充满活力的遗产研究人员和教育工作者团队致力于提高我们从馆藏中释放知识的能力，通过数字呈现为公众激活档案，并了解遗产材料的退化和保护。所要求的一套设备涵盖分析遗产科学以及物理考古和历史档案的数字化，支持我们成为威尔士遗产科学卓越中心的雄心。有了这种能力，我们将研究气候变化对外部历史建筑的影响，在我们的气候模拟实验室模拟当前和未来的环境，并使用便携式FTIR分析现场分析材料衰变。我们将扫描和复制过去的逃亡遗迹;受海岸侵蚀威胁的古代足迹将通过我们的3D功能为公众提供真实的脚印。我们将以数字和3D打印的方式将考古档案归还给挖掘出它们的社区，并将利用它们在节日期间吸引非传统观众。我们将通过便携式反射变换成像（RTI）在可视化套件和现场记录令人难以置信的物体表面细节，揭示有关文物制造和使用的线索。这种便携式设备的灵活性将使我们能够数字化和研究以前无法访问的收藏品的位置和国际。我们的合作伙伴文化遗产机构将在将这些技术应用于其收藏品方面获得技能提升，从而在整个行业中创造能力浪潮。此外，更重要的是，我们会透过学位课程，为新一代的文物科学工作者提供有关文化遗产的最新科技培训。我们会以更新后的研究能力为跳板，申请拨款，扩大研究范畴，并为研究助理创造就业机会。我们将支持访问研究员，并在令人兴奋的新领域创造博士研究能力，从而获得可资助的博士申请。我们现有的博士生将受益于我们的扩展能力，为他们的项目增加价值，并为数据收集和有影响力的结果打开额外的大门。通过在出版物和媒体上传播我们的研究成果，我们将与更广泛的部门和公众分享设备的价值。通过公布我们利用新能力开发的研究方法，我们将为充满活力的遗产科学学科的持续发展做出贡献。作为保护，生物考古，可视化和研究服务的提供者，我们将提供最新的收藏技术和扩大的现场服务范围。我们将通过记录三维温度和湿度并测量其对藏品的影响，为藏品护理提供量身定制的建议。借助便携式最先进的RTI和3D扫描技术，我们将能够在现场对藏品进行数字化处理，消除运输脆弱文物的风险。我们的3D打印技术将使我们能够根据对文物的扫描为机构创建处理集合。总之，这将以新的方式为目前仅限于传统展示形式的博物馆和档案馆开放收藏。重要的是，我们还将履行我们的可持续发展使命，减少我们的碳足迹。更换过时且耗电的技术，例如我们已有20年历史的FTIR，将减少我们实验室的能源消耗，以实现更可持续的研究和实践。创建数字收藏将使公众和研究人员能够在不旅行的情况下参与遗产，减少车辆旅行的环境成本燃料消耗。随着能力的提高，我们将利用新技术实现更可持续的未来。

Our dynamic team of heritage researchers and educators seek to enhance our capability for releasing knowledge from collections, activating archives for the public through digital presentation and understanding the deterioration and conservation of heritage materials. The requested suite of equipment covering analytical heritage science and digitisation of physical archaeological and historic archives supports our ambition to be a centre of excellence for heritage science in Wales. With this capability, we will study the effects of climate change on exterior historic structures, modelling current and future environments in our Climatic Simulation Laboratory and analysing material decay on site using portable FTIR analysis. We will scan and reproduce fugitive relics of the past; ancient footprints threatened by coastal erosion will come to life for the public as positive prints of feet with our 3D capability. We will return archaeological archives to the communities from which they were excavated in the form of digital and 3D-printed handling collections accessible to all and will use them to engage non-traditional audiences at festivals. We will record incredible surface detail on objects in our Visualisation Suite and on site through portable reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) revealing clues about manufacturing and use of heritage artefacts. The flexibility of this portable equipment will allow us to digitise and study previously inaccessible collections on location and internationally. Our partner cultural heritage institutions will be upskilled in the application of these techniques for their collections, creating waves of capability through the sector. And, crucially, new generations of heritage science practitioners will be trained in the latest technology for cultural heritage through our degree programmes.Using our rejuvenated capability as a springboard, we will apply for funding to expand our research portfolio and generate employment for research assistants. We will support visiting research fellows and create capacity for doctoral study in exciting new areas, leading to fundable PhD applications. Our existing PhD students will benefit from our extended capability to add value to their projects and open additional doors for data collection and impactful outcomes. Disseminating the outputs of our research in publications and the media, we will share the value of the equipment with the wider sector and the public. In publishing the research methods that we develop with our new capability, we will contribute to the continued development of the vibrant heritage science discipline.As a provider of conservation, bioarchaeology, visualisation and research services, we will offer access to the most up-to-date techniques for collections and an expanded range of in-situ services. We will produce tailored advice for collections care by logging temperature and humidity in 3 dimensions and measuring their impact on collections. With portable state-of-the-art RTI and 3D scanning, we will be capable of digitising collections in-situ, removing the risk associated with transport of fragile heritage artefacts. Our 3D printing technology will allow us to create handling collections for institutions based on scans of their artefacts. Together, this will open up collections in novel ways for museums and archives currently restricted to traditional forms of display. Importantly, we will also be fulfilling our sustainability mission to reduce our carbon footprint. Replacing outdated and power-hungry technology, such as our 20 year-old FTIR, will reduce the energy consumption of our laboratories for more sustainable research and practice. Creating digital collections will allow the public and researchers to engage with heritage without travelling, cutting the environmentally costly fuel consumption of vehicular travel. With improved capability, we will harness new technology for a more sustainable future.