Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage

Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage is a historical-technical Journal, the Authors and discussed topics, therefore come from different scientific backgrounds and disciplines. One of the Journal’s main objectives is to achieve an all-encompassing vision of interdisciplinarity and internationalization, essential elements in today’s society and relevant cultural sectors. In this, the Journal responds to a natural demand for information and professional growth – as far as possible correct and complete – on issues related to the cultural heritage sector for which the specific literature is somewhat limited. Another equally important aim is to ensure a high standard in the scientific content of the Journal together with high resolution of text and images in both hard copy and open access versions. The Journal is also accessible through the websites of the previously listed publish- ers, collaborators, academic libraries, ministries and institutions, highlighting the need for complete information in the scientific field, understood as a symbiosis of the social and human sciences and experimental sciences: the globalization of culture.

Main topics of publication

  • Study of the system: artifact-environment-biota
  • Historical-artistic knowledge of cultural heritage (ie. author, art movement, period of realization, techniques, society and cultural characteristics, socio-economic context, commissioning, financing, interested public)
  • History, diagnosis, restoration, maintenance, conservation, valorization, prevention, protection, preservation
  • Document research
  • Book, codex and manuscript production in its historical context
  • Appropriate methodologies and analytical techniques used for the characterization of historical artifacts and evaluation of the conservation state
  • Environmental monitoring: assessment of atmospheric pollution and correlated degradation of monuments and historical-artistic sites
  • Micro and macroclimatic monitoring in confined areas (ie. museums, libraries, archives, churches, galleries…)
  • Art diagnostics and evaluation of the authentication of art works
  • Art market and auction houses
  • Experiences in cultural heritage conservation
  • Evaluation of the suitability of products for restoration, conservation and maintenance of works of art
  • Information science and cultural heritage: data processing and cataloguing methods
  • Virtual re-elaboration and use of historical artifacts and environments
  • Study, valorization and digitalization of archive and library heritage
  • Environmental context and technical-conservative issues related to historic architecture
  • Virtual or traditional conservation, cataloguing and processing of photographs
  • Various other topics including education, training, safeguard, legislation, economics, social aspects, management, marketing, interdisciplinarity, internationalization, etc.

Editor-in-Chief
Salvatore Lorusso conservation scientist

Deputy Editors
Cosimo Damiano Fonseca historian, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, Italy
Mauro Mantovani philosopher,
Dean Università Pontificia Salesiana, Roma, Italy
Spartaco Paris architect, Director Centro Interdipartimentale Territorio Edilizia Restauro Ambiente, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Scientific Editors
Walter Tega historian, Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna, Italy
Federico Cinquepalmi architect, Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Lucio Colizzi engineer, Dipartimento di Informatica e Matematica, Università di Bari, Italy

Editorial Advisor
Luca Gugliermetti engineer, Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Scientific Board
Mario Alì Councillor, Centro Studi Americani, Roma, Italy
Pio Baldi architect, formerly President Fondazione MAXXI, Accademia Nazionale San Luca, Roma, Italy
Vincenzo Barone chemist, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Lucio Calcagnile physicist, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Innovazione, Università degli Studi del Salento, Lecce, Italy
Luigi Campanella chemist, formerly President Società Chimica Italiana, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Fabrizio Cumo engineer, Dipartimento Pianificazione, Design, e Tecnologia dell’Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Cao Jinyan Executive Associate Director, the Cultural Heritage Institute, Zhejjang University, Hangzhou, China
Giampaolo Maria Cogo lawyer, Studio Legale Cogo, Roma, Italy
Luigi Dei chemist, Dipartimento di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università di Firenze, Italy
Daniela Esposito architect, Director Scuola Specializzazione Beni Architettonici e Paesaggio, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Valerie Higgins archaeologist, The American University of Roma, Italy
Jean-Pierre Isbouts art historian, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, (CA), USA
Javid A. Jafarov historian, Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
Oleg Kuznetsov geologist, President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Alexandre P. Lobodanov philologist, Dean Faculty of Arts, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Luo Weidong economist, Deputy President Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Massimo Mazzini biologist, Dipartimento Innovazione nei Sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
Antonio Panaino philologist, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
Gregory T. Papanikos economist, President Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens, Greece
Vadim A. Parfenov engineer, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Valery Petrosyan chemist, Rector Open Ecological University, Vice-president Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Daniela Porro art historian, Soprintendente Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti Paesaggio di Roma, Roma, Italy
Nima Rezaei M.D., founding Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Iran
Atila Soares art historian, formely Professor at Faculty of Art and Design, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jan Rosvall technologist, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Claudio Spadoni art historian, formerly Director Museo d’Arte della Città di Ravenna (MAR), Ravenna, Italy
Iwona Szmelter art historian, Dean Faculty of Conservation-restoration of Works of Art, Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw, Poland
Levan Tavadyan chemical physicist, Director of Institute of Chemical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Ferruccio Trifirò chemist, Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Maria Rosaria Tinè chemical biophysicist, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Pisa, Italy
Marija S. Todorovic engineer, Virtual Engineering and Art, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Luigi Tomassini historian, formerly Director Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
Pier GiorgioTupini President Accademia della Cultura Enogastronomica, Rome, Italy
Gangfeng Zhang sociologist, Research Institute of HR Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Angela Mari Braida linguistic advisor, Roma, Italy
Marialaura Vignocchi publishing manager, Head Digital Library, Università di Bologna, Italy
Piero Grandesso Open Journal Support, Servizio AMS Riviste, Digital Library, Università di Bologna, Italy

Editorial Staff
Franca De Leo, Lucia Cecilia Lorusso

Head Publisher
Fabio Gangemi

ISSN print version: 1974-4951
ISSN online version: 1973-9494

Registration at Bologna law court n. 7346 of March 18th, 2003