{"id":1786,"date":"2015-03-03T02:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T02:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cool.conservation-us.org\/cool\/osg\/?page_id=1786"},"modified":"2020-04-22T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T22:11:07","slug":"roberts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/1989-2\/roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"A multi-task database for condition surveys, conservation reports, and laboratory management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jim Roberts<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>The WACC Conservation Database Program manages data in three primary areas: 1) Data Collection (Condition Survey), 2) Data Reporting, and 3) Data Transfer, and it coexists with the current dBase III+ National Park Service Automated National Catalogue System (ANCS) program, in order to read specified fields from the ANCS data files for reporting purposes. For application in non-NPS collections, another version of this program operates independent of the ANCS database.<\/p>\n<p>Using Data Collection, one can identify both a primary and a secondary material, as well as, select descriptive words relating to condition of the structure, surface, decorative parts, and previous treatment of each material. In addition, a 256 byte memo field allows for written comments. A similar system addresses proposed treatments for the materials. Both condition and treatment are summarized and the estimated treatment hours are tabulated. The reporting feature prints In a standard report format only those characteristics which are recorded. In addition, a macro Is available to import the ASCII dBase file into Wordperfect, in order to include additional text for condition reporting, &#8220;sign off&#8221; areas for both the curators and the conservators, and other word processing features.<\/p>\n<p>The conservator uses this program to manage conservation data of the collection, to compute treatment hours, to plan treatments, and to establish treatment priorities. A date feature signals cyclic maintenance schedules for previously treated objects. The program operates simultaneously on two different single user computers, such as the IBM AT and IBM compatible portable.<\/p>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/postprints\/1989-2\/\">1989 | Cincinnati<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Roberts Abstract The WACC Conservation Database Program manages data in three primary areas: 1) Data Collection (Condition Survey), 2) Data Reporting, and 3) Data Transfer, and it coexists with the current dBase III+ National Park Service Automated National Catalogue System (ANCS) program, in order to read specified fields from the ANCS data files for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":1581,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1786\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}