Gašpina mlinica u Solinu - Ministarstvo kulture RH

54 | Godišnjak zaštite spomenika kulture Hrvatske 33/34-2009./2010.
Summary
PROPOSAL FOR THE NEW SYSTEMATIZATION OF
THE CONSERVATION-RESTORATION PROFESSION
In order to define conservation-restoration activities or the conservation-restoration
process, it is necessary to define a clear semantic
denotation for each conservator-restorer’s activity. The present
definition of preventive conservation does not enable that since it
involves work that is not a conservator-restorer’s expertise, such as
inventorying, collecting, and legal, fire and theft protection. A redefinition
of the term preventive conservation is suggested so that it
refers only to the group of measures that are focused on the reduction
of material deterioration. Material deteriorates under unfavorable
humidity and light conditions, in contact with harmful materials,
chemicals and biological decomposition factors, as well as due to
handling (or use). It is recommended that the semantic denotation
preventive conservation not be used for risk protection, which refers
to inventorying, collecting, legal, fire and theft protection.
The semantic denotation of preventive protection is recommended
for use in a whole range of preventive activities, which together
with the redefined preventive conservation would include
inventorying, collecting, legal, fire and theft protection. The map
of the conservation-restoration process is based on the premise
that this process is demonstrable and presentable only through a
methodologically systematized documentation. After the conservation-restoration
process, we are left with a preserved heritage
object and conservation-restoration documentation. Those are the
two forms of substantiation of the conservation-restoration process.
The heritage object is not the only thing that is preserved after
the conservation-restoration process and to which the preventive
protection measures are applied; archival conservation-restoration
documentation is also kept and preserved.
The premise that says that a methodically systematized documentation
is a prerequisite of conservation-restoration work and a basis
of professional epistemology was further completed with a map of
the conservation-restoration process in accordance with the premise
that conservation-restoration process is demonstrable and presentable
only through a methodologically systematized documentation.