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Should We Discard Historical Wooden Archival Boxes?
- Source :
- Chemical Interactions Between Cultural Artefacts and Indoor Environment, Mieke Adriaens, Susie Bioletti and Ira Rabin. Chemical Interactions Between Cultural Artefacts and Indoor Environment, Acco, 2018, chemical interactions between cultural artefacts and indoor environment, 978-94-6344-798-0, www.acco.be
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2018.
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Abstract
- A total of 868 historical wooden archival boxes from the municipal and regional archives as well as from the French National Archives were studied by archaeodendrometrical techniques. The boxes were shown not to be airtight and to emit moderate concentrations of volatile organic compounds. The interactions between their content and the indoor environment were studied to investigate whether the emitted volatile organic compounds can impact the stability of the cellulosic documents and metallic artefacts they contain. Regardless of their age, results have shown that the boxes do not seem to represent a particular risk for cellulosic materials nor metallic artefacts.<br />Les interactions entre d’anciennes boîtes en bois utilisées pour le conditionnement des archives, leur environnement et leur contenu ont été étudiées. L’objectif était de déterminer si les composés organiques volatils (COV) émis par les boîtes peuvent contribuer à diminuer la stabilité des documents cellulosiques ou des objets métalliques contenus. 288 boîtes provenant d’archives municipales et départementales ainsi que des Archives nationales de France ont été datées par dendrochronologie entre le XIVe et le XXe siècle. Ces boîtes ne sont pas étanches à l’air, les faibles concentrations en COV et leur distribution qualitative montrent que, quel que soit leur âge, elles ne semblent pas présenter de risque particulier pour les objets cellulosiques ou métalliques.
- Subjects :
- dendrochronologie
[CHIM.MATE] Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry
[CHIM.ANAL] Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry
[SHS.MUSEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology
[CHIM.ANAL]Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry
VOC
COV
dendrochronology
Bois Conservation
[CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry
[SHS.MUSEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology
archives
wood
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-94-6344-798-0
- ISBNs :
- 9789463447980
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chemical Interactions Between Cultural Artefacts and Indoor Environment, Mieke Adriaens, Susie Bioletti and Ira Rabin. Chemical Interactions Between Cultural Artefacts and Indoor Environment, Acco, 2018, chemical interactions between cultural artefacts and indoor environment, 978-94-6344-798-0, www.acco.be
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..94de053e3434cae118bed282426c4f3d