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Former Institute for Sustainable Heritage (ISH) student, presently SEAHA student Cristina Duran-Casablancas has recently published a series of papers on wear and tear in archival and library collections in the journal Heritage Science, with her supervisors Dr. Josep Grau-Bov茅, Prof. Tom Fearn and Prof. Matija Strli膷.

An intrinsic value of archival collections is that they are physically used, which undoubtedly leads to a certain level of wear and tear. This reasearch explores whether differences in individual items might explain patterns of decay across a population, as well as how reliable different groups of objects are.

In 鈥楢ccumulation of wear and tear in archival and library collections. Part I: exploring the concepts of realibility and epidemiology鈥� the authors explore how realibility theory, the method that deals with failure in complex systems, and epidemiology, which explores deseases in defined populations, could be applied in the heritage field to provide quantitative evidence of patterns of decay on large heritage collections.

Part II of the study, 鈥楢ccumulation of wear and tear in archival and library collections. Part II: a epidemiological study鈥�, proposes a new methodology to collection surveying based on epidemiology. The results show that appropriate survey methods and statistical methods of data analysis can reveal the factors that can lead to wear and tear.

This article is part of the SEAHA CDT collection in the journal Heritage Science.
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Header Image: Repositories at the Amsterdam City Archives (漏 Stadsarchief Amsterdam).