Condition
Project Activities
After an audit of the collection was undertaken on site at MAAS, the collection was uplifted to ICS and information was exported from the MAAS collection system. Each of the objects was prepared and packed for digitisation by conservators by flattening and removing creasing.
Posters were re-housed in new mylar sleeves. T-shirts were placed in A1 textile boxes and interleaved with tissue.
They were then sent securely to Datacom IT and digitised using high-resolution image technology, capturing both sides where necessary. Images were then transferred to MAAS for ingestion into their collection system, and the physical collection safely returned.
Treatment
Outcomes
- Collection audit, safe packing and transport
- Each object provided with a unique Tyvek barcode
- Conservation treatments in preparation for digitisation
- Collection digitised in high-quality images meeting MAAS specifications
- Objects re-housed and organised in robust archival sleeves and boxes
Digitised t-shirt
Before treatment
Digitised concert poster
After treatment
