Incorporate Cultural Artifacts Conservation Documentation to Information Exchange Standards – The DOC-CULTURE Case

The cultural heritage artifacts Conservation Documentation format is not universally agreed upon nor has it always been considered an important aspect of the conservation profession. Conservation records present major drawbacks, which are the fragmentary and incomplete description of the contained information and related processes. On the other hand, as strict regulations prohibit invasive testing in the conservation of art works and monuments of great historical value, new type of examination methods such as Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT&E) techniques have become essential and are widely used by scientists. In this context, the present paper presents the DOC-CULTURE project approach to standardize the documentation of the NDT methods and their output data through CIDOC-CRM exploitation.