{"id":1188,"date":"2011-06-16T01:27:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2011-06-16T01:27:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:27:56","slug":"aic-2011-angels-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/06\/16\/aic-2011-angels-project\/","title":{"rendered":"AIC 2011 Angels Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2011 AIC annual meeting Angels Project was at the American Philosophical Society<\/a>.\u00a0 I had never been to the society so I was interested to see the space.\u00a0 The American Philosophical Society promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities, it was begun by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 and the archives contain a variety of different materials.\u00a0 The Angels were split into groups of five people and they were each assigned a shelf to begin to dust and record.\u00a0 The record summarized how\u00a0 materials are currently being housed and will allow the conservator to make recommendations for a future\u00a0 re-housing project.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of the most interesting collection materials was a box of bamboo that had been inscribed with characters.\u00a0 This is the writing of the Batak, a group of people who live in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia.\u00a0 The American Philosophical Society will be re-housing these bamboo pieces very soon as they are one of only a few repositories of the Batak language<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is my second year to volunteer on the Angels project and I really enjoyed it.\u00a0 It gives me the opportunity to see and help a collection in need, meet other conservators in other disciplines, and after a few days of talking and thinking I got a chance to apply myself to a project which was energizing.<\/p>\n

*Image courtesy of Jason Church at flickr.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2011 AIC annual meeting Angels Project was at the American Philosophical Society.\u00a0 I had never been to the society so I was interested to see the space.\u00a0 The American Philosophical Society promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities, it was begun by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 and the archives contain a variety of … Continue reading “AIC 2011 Angels Project”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annual-meeting","category-reception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}