AIC's 46th Annual Meeting

This past fall, the Heritage Science for Conservation group at Johns Hopkins University hosted a one day workshop, Adhesives in Conservation: Bridging the Gap between Industry and Conservators, with the aim of gathering information from participants towards developing a user-driven adhesives database. Through talks and break-out groups, intentions around data and functionality desired in an adhesives database were discussed. Two surveys were administered, one before and one after the workshop, that gathered data on different aspects of adhesives selection and use in conservation. These results were paired with the data gathered at the workshop to inform database design and implementation. The details of the workshop, survey results, and next steps are presented here.