To promote research, development and application of optical measurement techniques
OBJECTIVES
To promote research, development and application of optical measurement techniques – adapted to the needs of heritage documentation – based on interdisciplinary cooperation at a European level.
It also aims to offer a novel and reliable independent and global knowledge base facilitating the use of current and future optical measurement techniques to support the documentation of European heritage.
Link to the project website: cost.eu
PROGRAM
COSCH provides an open forum for organisations, institutions and companies interested in collaborating within the emerging field of precise spectral and spatial imaging techniques, in physical and chemical sciences applied to cultural heritage objects, as well as in research and applications into the conservation and art-historical analysis of such objects.
COST TD1201 covers the following scientific domains: spectral object documentation (WG1), spatial object documentation (WG2), algorithms and procedures (WG3), analysis and restoration of surfaces and objects of material culture (WG4) and visualisation of cultural heritage objects and its dissemination (WG5).
Regular meetings involving EU delegates of the action or only members of the WGs (taskforce meetings) are organized to exchange the current knowledge within a broader group, to discuss new themes and provide the possibility for new collaborations. Important tools of COSCH for end-users are the training schools for specific topics and the Short-Term Scientific Missions designed to train scientists or conservation professionals from one country represented in COST TD1201 at institutions from another similarly represented country.
FUNDING
Haute Ecole Arc he-arc.ch
PARTNERS
26 EU an non EU countries
