Welcome to the homepage of COST-Action TD 1201:
Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage (COSCH)
Action duration: 7 November 2012 - 6 November 2016
True, precise and complete documentation of artefacts is essential for conservation and preservation of our cultural heritage (CH). By ensuring access to the best possible documentation of artefacts this COST Action contributes to the enhanced understanding of material CH and help its long-term preservation. Documentation of CH involves researchers, scientists and professionals from multiple disciplines and industries. There is a need to promote research, development and application of non-contact optical measurement techniques (spectral and spatial) – adapted to the needs of heritage documentation – on a concerted European level, in order to protect, preserve, analyse, understand, model, virtually reproduce, document and publish important CH in Europe and beyond. Research in this field typically relies on nationally-funded projects with little interaction between stakeholders. This Action will provide a stimulating framework for articulating and clarifying problems, sharing solutions and skills, standardising methodologies and protocols, encouraging a common understanding, widening applications and dissemination. The Action will foster open standards for state-of-the-art documentation of CH. It will simplify the usage of high-resolution optical techniques in CH and define good practice and stimulate research.
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The networking activities of COSCH are funded by COST, an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level. Funding has been made available for four years, 2012-2016. All administrative and financial rules with respect to the management and implementation of COST Actions and associated activities are provided by the COST Vademecum. The COST Implementation rules, COST Strategy for ECIs and templates are available at http://www.cost.eu/participate/networking.
COSCH is the COST Transdomain Action TD1201 in the area of Materials, Physics and Nanosciences. The activities of COSCH are informed by the Memorandum of Understanding and Workplan of the Action.