New site--SaltWiki

SaltWiki
A Wiki on the subject of "Salt-based Damage"

<URL:http://www.saltwiki.net>

SaltWiki, a specialist Wiki (including a repository) on the subject
"Salt-based damage in the research field of conservation of cultural
heritage" has been in operation since the middle of February 2009,
support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

    <URL:http://www.dfg.de/
        en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure>

Now an initiative is started to work on an English version of the
Wiki. The versions are not translations but they will be
independently developed.

Salt damage is the most common source of damage to historical
buildings, stone sculptures, murals, etc. but is also encountered in
many new buildings. Despite comprehensive research in the last
years, there are still distinct knowledge gaps so that in many cases
not only laypeople but also specialists such as restorers,
conservators, civil engineers, scientists or architects stand
helpless before a damaged object. The problems are often very
complex. Well-founded expertise is required to be able to select the
necessary measures.

The Wiki will be able to contribute to make the present specialist
knowledge available to all free of charge in a competent and
easy-to-understand manner.

At a specialist workshop of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
<URL:http://www.dbu.de> in Osnabruck on 19 February 2008, about
twenty participants from Germany and abroad agreed to compile a
specialist Wiki including a repository (article, data, diagrams,
figures, etc.) to make current specialist knowledge available to all
and to publish research results and practice know-how quickly and
free of charge. This specialist Wiki, under editorial supervision,
will be supported by an online communication and organization
platform with interoperable Web 2.0 applications, such as blogs,
forums, interactive calendars and tagging.

This group of specialists selected the Hornemann Institute of the
HAWK to assume the specialist Wiki as it has a good reputation from
its participation in national and international projects in the
conservation of cultural heritage and its free online databases and
non-commercial e-learning courses.

Anyone doing research or working in this field is welcome to join
the research joint venture and to collaborate in compiling the
specialist Wiki. If you have comments to make on particular pages,
please log in and write your comments directly on the discussion
page that is located on each SaltWiki page. If you have any general
questions about SaltWiki or comments, please get in touch with us.

Dr. Angela Weyer
Institutsleiterin
HAWK
Hochschule fur angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst
Hildesheim/Holzminden/Goettingen
Fakultat Erhaltung von Kulturgut
Hornemann Institut
Kardinal-Bertram-Strasse 36
31134 Hildesheim
+49 5121 408179
Fax: +49 5121 408185


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