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CIPA HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION - CIPA - Icomos

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➧ Identify and map evidences of criteria;<br />

➧ Significance and integrity assessment;<br />

➧ Risk assessment: threats and hazards associated to indicators;<br />

➧ Administrative and management issues (current and<br />

passed mitigations);<br />

➧ Other assessments.<br />

1.2.3 Practical issues when recording heritage<br />

places<br />

Figure 1: Defining a baseline, author.<br />

A good understanding of the recording heritage places requires<br />

the development of skills that recognize the following<br />

issues:<br />

➧ Nothing is straight, square or horizontal, heritage places<br />

are affected by weathering and their design might not be<br />

regular;<br />

➧ One should record from the wide to the small (fault theory);<br />

➧ Records should be referenced, it is advisable to link and establish<br />

a Basis and Control system;<br />

➧ The site baseline means that the heritage recording is to<br />

collect information of ‘as-built condition’, one should record<br />

only what is visible, although assumptions deduced from<br />

“logical” way of fabric should be mentioned;<br />

➧ Define an appropriate level of detail of the information to<br />

be provided;<br />

➧ All records should provide provenance information.<br />

1.2.3.1 Defining scope: levels of detail<br />

The following levels, developed by Letellier0 are presented<br />

here to provide an essential guide to define the amount of heritage<br />

information required for a specific objective in understanding<br />

heritage places. Each training course to be developed<br />

should specify, which of these levels are been taught.<br />

The levels are:<br />

➧ Reconnaissance;<br />

➧ Preliminary;<br />

➧ Detailed.<br />

1.2.3.2 The Reconnaissance Record<br />

Usually, the reconnaissance record is an overview photo survey<br />

that will allow conservationists to visualize, in their entirety, a<br />

site and its related buildings and features in sufficient detail to<br />

understand the site’s overall general characteristics. It should<br />

permit rapid identification of significant features and problem<br />

areas. The quantity of photos taken will vary with the size of the<br />

site and related structures and features, and the client’s requirements.<br />

For a building, a reconnaissance record would normally<br />

include elevations together with significant details. More<br />

complex sites such as cultural landscapes or archaeological excavations<br />

will require general views from all compass points<br />

and at various height elevations (that is heights of land), supplemented,<br />

as needs dictate, by representative details.<br />

1.2.3.3 The Preliminary Record<br />

Preliminary recording will complement the reconnaissance<br />

record by providing more complete information pertaining to<br />

the most significant elements of a site. The purpose of this<br />

record is to produce a record of the resource’s major features.<br />

Additionally, the preliminary record could include data necessary<br />

for preliminary analysis, and define areas for further investigation<br />

and future ‘detailed recording’. The accuracy of data is<br />

approximately ± 10 cm for plans, elevations, and cross sections,<br />

and ± 2 cm for structural and other structural details.<br />

1.2.3.4 The Detailed Record<br />

Detailed recording may take place prior to, during or after a<br />

conservation activity so as to record a site’s physical configuration,<br />

condition and significant features. Detailed recording<br />

occurs when a highly significant resource becomes the subject<br />

of directed research and analysis, or intervention planning<br />

and conceptual design. To ensure cost-effective detailed recording,<br />

completeness should be tailored to the immediate<br />

needs of a conservation team. Detailed recording may be<br />

phased over a number of years depending on planning requirements<br />

and related budget. The accuracy of a detailed record<br />

can vary between approximately ±5 mm (for details) and ±25<br />

mm (for building plans).<br />

1. IntroductIon to HerItage documentatIon<br />

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