RLICC-KU Leuven

Hampi World Heritage Site Preservation Workshop

Mission September 13 18 September 2008

Documentation and inventory making

By Dr. Mario Santana Quintero

Heritage information plays an essential role in the adequate preparation,

implementation and monitoring of conservation strategies. Good decisions in
conservation are based on timely, relevant and sufficient information. For this reason,
the role of this introductory lecture is to underline the relevance of documentation as
initial understanding about the significance of heritage places.

The contents of this lecture deal with the importance of documentation as a tool to
identify the gaps in existing documentation of the site and the role of recording for
acquiring additional information to have a complete baseline information of a heritage
place.

For this reason, the course is aimed at providing an approach for effective use of
recording for heritage conservation, monitoring, interpretation, and presentation.

The teaching strategy involves:

- A global understanding of the role of information in conservation, addressing

national and international standards;
- Review potentials and limitations of recording and documentation techniques,
including simple and more advanced tools, emphasizing in financial
constraints of this practice;
- Short introduction to the use of simple and cost-effective recording and
documentation techniques to capture information from cultural heritage
resources;
- The use of information system in cultural heritage resources management;
- Report making for presenting information to stakeholders and decision
makers;

TOPICS
 Building a documentation strategy based on organizational, site and
techniques opportunities and constraints;
 An overall understanding of recording tools, making emphasis on effective
cost-effective tools:
o Digital photography for heritage information, including architectural,
record, and condition photos
o GPS for base-line site information, producing plans, elevations,
sections, and elevations
o Scaled-rectified photography using a levelled camera, control points
and CAD;
o Simple panoramic photography.
 Condition assessment:

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o Using scaled-rectified photography and CAD overlay;

o Observation, assessment and notation of conditions on wall elevations
 Report preparation and presentation

Additional understanding of more advanced recording techniques:

o REDM Total Station;

o Scaled-rectified photography and photogrammetric software;
o Terrestrial Laser scanning;
o High-resolution panoramic photography.

REFERENCE MATERIAL

CD reference material provided by lecturer, including:

 PowerPoint presentation
 Essential readings
 Web links

READINGS (ONLINE)
Box, P. GIS and Cultural Resources Management Manual, UNESCO
World Heritage Centre, Bangkok 1999
http://west-pac.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=2575

English Heritage ‘Understanding Historic Buildings: A guide to good

recording practice’ (2006):
- Part 1:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/Understanding_Historic_Buildi
ngs_1.pdf
- Part 2:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/Understanding_Historic_Buildi
ngs_2.pdf
- Part 3:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/Understanding_Historic_Buildi
ngs_3.pdf

Guidelines for Local Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning bulletin

(28 MB) (http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/nrb24/nrb24.pdf
last visited 2/2/2007)

ICOMOS charters:
(http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/chartes_eng.
htm last visited 02/10/07)

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The Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Preservation

Planning (http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/pad/PlngStds/guideintro.htm last
visited: 2/2/07)

The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Archaeology

and Historic Preservation
http://www.nps.gov/history/local-law/arch_stnds_0.htm

The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Architectural and Engineering

Documentation
http://www.nps.gov/history/local-law/arch_stnds_6.htm

NPS-28: Cultural Resource Management Guideline

Chapter 8: Management of Historic and Prehistoric Structures
This chapter specifies contents of Historic Structure Reports
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/nps28/28chap8.htm

HABS/HAER Documentation Programs: Sample Projects

http://www.nps.gov/hdp/samples/index.htm

Digital Camera Basics: Using Your Digital Camera

http://www.shortcourses.com/use/

Photoshop Basics
 http://www.ppath.cornell.edu/PhotoLab/KnowledgeBase/DigiPhotoTips/P
hotoshopBasicTool.htm
 http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/Photoshop/editing.htm
 http://www.bgsu.edu/downloads/cio/file/17749.pdf

English Heritage: Hadrians Wall- Management Plan 2002-2007

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/hadrian_mgmt_plan.pdf

English heritage Metric Survey Specifications for English Heritage

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/
Metric_Survey_2003_revision_with_links.pdf

English Heritage Minimum requirements for metric use of non metric photographic
documentation
Part1: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/metric_extraction_1.pdf
Part 2: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/metric_extraction_2.pdf

English Heritage Where on Earth Are We: The Global Positioning System (GPS) in
archaeological field survey, 2003
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConGenericProduct.296

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BIO-SKETCH MARIO SANTANA-QUINTERO

He completed studies of architecture in 1994 at the Universidad

Central de Venezuela. In 2003 he obtained a PhD with a
dissertation entitled ‘The use of three-dimensional
documentation and dissemination techniques in studying built
heritage’ at the R. Lemaire International Centre for Conservation
(University of Leuven). Besides his research experience, he
assistant professor at the R. Lemaire Centre for Conservation,
University of Leuven, Professor at the University of Applied
Sciences St Lieven and associate faculty at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is currently the Vice President of the ICOMOS
Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation (CIPA) and
executive officer of the Virtual Systems and Multimedia Society
Furthermore, he has been working since 1997 as Cultural
Heritage documentation consultant for the United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Culture Organization (UNESCO),
UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, World Monuments Fund,
Getty Conservation Institute, United Nations Development
programme (UNDP), University of Leuven, The International
Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of
Cultural Property (ICCROM), University of Pennsylvania, Abu
Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, Petra National Trust,
University of Applied Sciences of St Lieven, and the University
of Aachen RWTH. The projects have been carried out in
Afghanistan, Belgium, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany,
Jordan, India, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Sudan, the Sultanate of
Oman, Syria, United Arab Emirates, USA and Yemen.

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