One pilot application of mobile Raman spectroscopy and information technologies for cultural heritage inventory studies
Articles > Article · 2017
Authors: Ozan ÜNSALAN, Alpaslan H. Kuzucuoglu, Caglar ÇAKIR, Ersin Kaygisiz
Journal of Cultural Heritage, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, WoS, 2017, vol 25, pp 94-100
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2017.01.004
Summary
<p>tWith the improvement of the technology, new methods are being produced for documentation of librarymaterials. By using written, visual and auditory methods for documentation of library materials, all of thestages regarding the material are recorded. By this way, transferring information and data to next gener-ations that is the basic aim of the documentation is targeted. Besides, documentation of the works withinthe library building before/after the restoration is also crucial. Documentation without giving harm toprimary materials like paper or leather (without an intervention), taking the decision of intervention bydamage assessment, protection of the works by digitalization and sharing with the concerned parties areprovided. Many alternative softwares are used in accordance with the implementations and documen-tations that are desired to be performed. Digitalization stage covering all of the details of a book from thebinder of the book to inner pages provides conveying of the work to many users without giving harm.Additionally, these studies help restorators on the restoration of the books. On the other hand, Ramanspectroscopy is extensively used in analysis of the cultural heritage artefacts. In order to protect heritagematerials by “spectroscopic cryptology techniques” (Infrared and Raman spectroscopy) play a crucialrole in understanding and differentiating the fake/artificial materials from each other. The aim of thisstudy is to bring spectroscopic methods and other visual documentation methods together and producea cultural heritage inventory. In this study, by formation of a written, visual and spectroscopic databasefor rare books at Recai Mehmet Efendi Library, documentation study regarding dye pigments of leatherbinder of the book, paper quality, definition of both paper and leather original materials, definition ofdeterioration level and restoration proposal of the books were studied.</p>