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Webinar: Preparing for the Next Disaster

NCPTT will be offering a free webinar "Disaster Preparedness for Cultural Resources: Preparing You For the Next Disaster" on May 22-23 from 9 am -12 pm central. The webinar will […] More

Go Digital and Social: the Public Face of NPS Park Cultural Landscapes Program

On October 2012, the National Park Service Park Cultural Landscapes Program launched its program website (http://www.nps.gov/cultural_landscapes/). This site is designed for broad audiences as well as preservation community members, to […] More

Training in Climate Change and Cultural Resources

Climate change (Call to Action #21, “Revisiting Leopold”) and NPS workforce collaboration and training (Call to Action #31, “Destination Innovation”) were fused in February 2013 with a workshop on cultural […] More

New Guidance for Installing Solar Panels on Historic Properties

TPS published new online guidance for Solar Panels on Historic Properties to showcase successful projects that have added solar energy systems to historic buildings, districts, and landscapes. The guidance will […] More

Web Catalog Increases Access to NPS Museum Collections

The National Park Service (NPS) Museum Management Program has re-launched its Web Catalog museum collections website. This project is an ongoing initiative that supports the Director’s Call to Action #17, “Go Digital” […] More
 
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Existing Learning and Development Opportunities in Cultural Resources

On May 1, 2011 By Sean Clifford
NCPTT
The following survey has been developed to help identify existing Cultural Resources Learning and Development Opportunities in and outside of the National Park Service.
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Web-Accessible Training in Thin-Section Petrography of Cultural Materials (2010-05)

On April 19, 2011 By Kris Vidos
2010-05

Thin-section petrography is a technique used to examine small samples of stone, ceramics, or other mineral-containing materials under a polarized light microscope in order to characterize the material and/or fabrication technology and to answer a wide range of questions relevant to issues in historic preservation, conservation, archaeology, or anthropology.

The tutorial provides a free interactive [...]

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Digital Recovery of Water Damaged Manuscripts Using Transportable, Multispectral Imaging Laboratory (2011-16)

On April 19, 2011 By Kris Vidos
2011-16

The challenges to preserving our cultural heritage in an age of global warming and ideologically-based political strife are many, particularly as regards manuscripts and manuscript collections. Fragile and vulnerable, manuscripts stored in collections large and small, are at risk to damage by water, fire and human intervention both here in America and abroad. And yet, [...]

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Structural Health Monitoring of Nation’s Cultural Heritage (2011-15)

On April 19, 2011 By Kris Vidos
2011-15

 

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a well-accepted diagnostic technique being used to evaluate modern structures. This method involves monitoring the vibration responses of structure to detect changes in the structural state of a building. The primary intention of this report is to address two practical and technical difficulties encountered in deploying SHM on historic [...]

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Creation of a website and online community forum for Osteoware: a software application for human skeleton documentation (2011-14)

On April 18, 2011 By Kris Vidos
Craniometrics captured with the aid of the 3Skull program and a digitizer tablet.

 

   Osteoware is an easy to learn software program designed to assist in the documentation of human skeletal remains. It provides for the real-time data entry of quantitative and qualitative observations into a structured query language (SQL) relational database. When the database is established on a networked server up to five individuals [...]

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Development and testing of a next-generation micro-fading tester for non-destructive lightfastness evaluation of art and artifacts (2001-11)

On April 17, 2011 By Kris Vidos

This project was part of a continuing effort to further develop the fading tester, a devise that permits assessment of the light sensitivity of a colored artifact.  In this work we have evaluated the currently available commercial fiberoptic spectrometers, which form the detector for the color change measurements performed by the tester.

Five devices were [...]

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Preservation Maintenance of Turf Using Resource Sensitive Techniques in Historic Landscapes (2011-03)

On April 14, 2011 By Stephanie Nelson
MOWING
Historic sites reflect a particular time period and cultural use. These landscapes are composed of historic features such as buildings, trees, fencing, and walkways that date to an historic period. Understanding and implementing appropriate maintenance practices to preserve a site’s historic character and its individual features are essential components of a maintenance worker’s job. This video addresses turf management techniques designed to preserve these sites.
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Rocky Mountain Green Conference Next Week!

On April 12, 2011 By Ed FitzGerald
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Colorado Preservation, Inc. is sponsoring the Existing & Historic Buildings track at the Rocky Mountain Green 2011 Conference.

U.S. Green Building Council Colorado will be presenting the Rocky Mountain Green 2011 Conference on April 20 & 21 at the Marriott, Denver Tech Center.

This is the premier green building conference and trade [...]

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$217,000 awarded to new projects in NCPTT Grants Program

On April 8, 2011 By Jeff Guin
NCPTT

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today the award of $217,000 for competitive preservation technology and training grants.

In all, grants from ten applicants were funded, including the Preservation League of New York, which plans to implement a training program for building professionals who wish to rehabilitate/retrofit historic buildings to comply with the New [...]

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