| Abstract: | SUMMARIES. Many museums have paper files of the information about their paintings. These files are usually not easily searchable, or are dependent on an individual’s knowledge. The Lazurite program has been designed to overcome many of these common problems by creating an integrated resource appropriate to the needs of the conservation, conservation science and technical art-history communities. The Lazurite database was specifically developed to handle images and other analytical information on paintings and artifacts. The software allows the user to organize the data in a searchable format based around objects and object collections, containing large-scale images, samples taken and analyses performed. Information on the object, the area of interest and sampling locations are directly linked to information on the related images and a wide variety of other image or spectral data on samples. Metadata, keywords and other searchable features can also be added in a rigorous yet extensible way. External information such as word-processed reports, web addresses or animations can also be launched from within the database. Lazurite files can also be shared with other users. Databases developed within the Lazurite framework so far include the Pigment Compendium CD-ROM and studies on individual projects such as a large-scale conservation treatment of a medieval wall painting, a project on Roman archaeological fragments and various analytical studies on paint cross sections from the MOLART project. |
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