Help with baseline study for new conservation science raw data project

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Jul 16, 2014, 5:31:55 PM7/16/14

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Greetings all.

Elton suggested I post my question here and I would certainly appreciate any leads or ideas you may have.

We are starting a new project here at the Getty Conservation Institute (in LA) that, to try and put it concisely, is exploring the development of a software tool that can help conservation scientists share and compare the raw data (including images) produced by various scientific instruments that are used to perform analyses on objects of art.

I am looking for suggestions of individuals or firms that can help the Institute conduct a short-term baseline study that will clearly establish--before we fully define the project’s scope--what other work has been done that might be relevant for our project. (To be engaged on a short-term contractual basis.)

At the very least, a familiarity with semantic data modeling and a knowledge of or ability to quickly understand scientific instrumentation data (whether cultural heritage related or not) would be helpful in order to definitively determine if any other work done in the area is indeed relevant for our project. (Note: analytical instruments used by conservation scientists, almost without exception, have been built for various other scientific fields and, therefore, those data formats should be understood by researchers in other fields--e.g., medicine, pharmaceutics, forensics.)

Such work may include establishing standards, data/image manipulation, export of scientific data as RDF, etc.

Thanks in advance for any leads, advice, ideas, comments, questions...

Best, Alison

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