SALTWIKI: Authors Wanted

A Specialized Wiki with Repository on Salt Damage to Cultural heritage

SaltWiki, an Internet-based, editorially-managed information structure
and a new tool for knowledge transfer and research, provides information
on salts and damage to cultural heritage caused by salts.
A year after the German version www.salzwiki.de
was released the English version www.saltwiki.net
is now online initially just for authors.

SaltWiki consists of two areas:

* The actual Wiki on the subject of "damage caused by salts" which is
available to all: debates on the subject take place through its
discussion pages, offering readers the opportunity to comment on content
and thus contribute to a continuous improvement.

* A repository (the same for the German and English version) as data
storage for the purposes of research and instruction. Here authors can
find, for example, analysis data, physical and chemical constants, and
also graphics, photos, short videos and published and unpublished
literature. In addition, the repository is used as a virtual research
environment on the subject of "salt damage to cultural heritage" and
supports a sustainable preservation of scientific data and allows re-use.

Since February 2009, support from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
has made it possible for this to be carried out at the Hornemann
Institute of the HAWK (University of Applied Sciences and Arts) in
Hildesheim, Germany.

All those interested in research and practice are invited to take part
and become author. You may contactusat service@hornemann-institut.de
<mailto:service@hornemann-institut.de>or via the contact page for
authors
(http://elearn.hawk-hhg.de/projekte/salzwiki/pages/author-registration.php).

Dr. Hans-Jürgen Schwarz
Projektkoordinator DFG-Projekt
HAWK Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst
Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen
Fakultät Erhaltung von Kulturgut

HORNEMANN INSTITUT
Kardinal-Bertram-Strasse 36
31134 Hildesheim
http://www.hornemann-institut.de