The previous tool for the quantitative assessment of risk of physical damage of cultural objects due to climate variations has become part of a larger platform, a pilot form of research infrastructure for cultural heritage science, developed for the IPERION HS consortium (http://www.iperionhs.eu/).
The platform will allow to estimate the risk associated with the ten risk factors identified for collections. Institutions such as University College London and the University of Ljubljana will join the development of individual modules.
You can find the new tool at http://herie.pl/
The tool available so far at http://herie.mnk.pl/ has been developed and optimized by us thanks to funding from the Getty Conservation Institute (Los Angeles, USA) and grant for the statutory activities of the Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It is now available as the “Incorrect Relative Humidity” module.
Former users will also notice that uploaded datasets can now be merged, which allows to combine two climates into one data string to quickly assess, for example, the effects of lending an object to a museum located in a different climate zone.
We encourage you to try it!