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This page will provide guidance for adding or updating bibliographies and citations in the Imaging Wiki. We are working to establish the guidelines, so this is very much a page in progress.

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How to List References

Information shared on the Imaging Wiki should be appropriately cited and we encourage the use of brief in-text citations followed by a list of References or Works Cited at the bottom of the page.

We would like to use the BPG Bibliography model with the use of custom markup for in-text citations and references explained on BPG: References and Bibliography Protocols. BPG outlines disadvantages with the automated system described on the AIC-CC User Guidelines for References and Bibliographies. The BPG model allows us to use ref entries that match the resource in question and makes organizing the bibliography alphabetically a little more straightforward.

For a single author reference, the ‘ref’ section will include LastnameYear, as below:

:<span id="refGibson1978"></span> Gibson, H. Lou. 1978. <i>Photography by Infrared</i>, 3rd edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

For references with two authors, the ‘ref’ section will include refLastnameLastnameYear, as below:

:<span id="refAndrewEastop1994"></span>Andrew, Sally R., and Dinah Eastop. 1994. “Using Ultra-violet and Infra-red Techniques in Examination and Documentation of Historic Textiles.” <i>The Conservator </i> 18 (1994): 36, 50–6.

For references with three or more authors, the ‘ref’ section will include refLastnameetalYear, as below:

:<span id="refWardaetal2017"></span>Warda, Jeffrey (ed.), Franziska Frey, Dawn Heller, Dan Kushel, Timothy Vitale, and Gawain Weaver. 2017. <i>The AIC guide to digital photography and conservation documentation</i>, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artist Works.

In some cases, there may be two identical ref tags, for example an author may have two or more articles published in the same year. In these cases. add a letter to the end of the ref tag, starting with 'a' and proceeding through the alphabet, as below:

:<span id="refRemondino2011a"></span>Remondino, Fabio. 2011. Accurate and detailed image-based 3D documentation of large sites and complex objects. In <i>Digital imaging for cultural heritage preservation: Analysis, restoration, and reconstruction of ancient artworks</i>, ed. F. Stanco, S. Battiato, and G. Gallo. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 127–57.

:<span id="refRemondino2011b"></span> Remondino, Fabio. 2011. Heritage recording and 3D modeling with photogrammetry and 3D scanning. <i> Remote Sensing </i> 3: 1104–38.

References should follow the JAIC Style Guide (scroll down for guidance on citing websites). This style guide corresponds to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., Author-Date system.

Some wiki-specific guidelines:

• An entry in a bibliography should include all of the standard elements of an entry, not simply a title and link.
• If the book or article is available online, the entry in the reference list or bibliography should include a hyperlink to the source. Permalinks or DOIs are preferred.
  • The link should be expressed as the title of the article or book.
  • When providing a link, note the date the website was accessed or last updated.

For example, this code:

Verri, Giovanni, 2017. “[https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/newsletters/pdf/v32n1.pdf "IT’S ALL IMAGING TO ME": Documentation, Investigation, Visualization, and Communication].” “Conservation Perspectives: The GCI Newsletter” Spring 2017. Accessed February 17, 2021.

will display:

Verri, Giovanni, 2017. “"IT’S ALL IMAGING TO ME": Documentation, Investigation, Visualization, and Communication.” “Conservation Perspectives: The GCI Newsletter” Spring 2017. Accessed February 17, 2021.

How to Reference the AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation Documentation

The AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation Documentation is an essential resource for conservation imaging. This guide was AIC’s first effort to compile imaging information for the conservation community, and it is a critical foundation our work. The Imaging Wiki is not intended to recreate this guide, but instead to build upon it. We encourage referencing and quoting of The AIC Guide and have included recommendations below. These recommendations are subject to change.

• To maintain consistent section numbers and page numbers across the Imaging Wiki, only reference the most current version of The AIC Guide (3rd edition published in 2017).
• When quoting or referencing “Chapter 6: Photographic Techniques for Conservation”, the reference should include the chapter’s author, Dan Kushel. All of the other chapters are co-authored. Chapter 6 is an exception and is written entirely by Dan Kushel and edited by Jeffrey Warda.
• If you are using text with no edits, put this text in quotes and cite the relevant page(s). If you are paraphrasing, just cite the relevant page(s).

The following are included as examples of referencing The AIC Guide:

Warda et al. (2017, p.60-70) outline a few methods for determining proper exposure: the grayscale target method, the histogram method, and the 18% gray card method. The preferred method using a grayscale target with known RGB values includes examples for the X-Rite ColorChecker, the QPcard 101 v2 and the QPCard 102 with values illustrated in figures and tables (Warda et al. 2017, p.68).

Infrared regions and sensitivity of cameras are discussed by Kushel (2017, p.131) and Table 7 summarizes the different wavelength regions with associated wavelength ranges and corresponding recording media or sensor type (Kushel 2017, p.131).

The following are the definitions differentiating infrared imaging techniques from Kushel (2017, p.131-132) from Section 6.4.3 of The AIC Guide.

• Reflected infrared digital photography (or a reflected infrared digital photograph): Imaging or images made in the 700-1000 nm range and thus are within the abilities of digital cameras
• Infrared reflectography (or an infrared reflectogram): Imaging or images made in the 1000-2500 nm range and thus are within the ability of typical electronic infrared imagers
• Transmitted infrared digital photography (or an infrared digital photograph): Imaging or images made in the 700-1000 nm range and thus are within the abilities of digital cameras

References:

Kushel, Dan. 2017. “Photographic Techniques for Conservation.” In: Warda, J (ed.) The AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation Documentation, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artist Works, 109-171.

Warda, Jeffrey (ed.), Franziska Frey, Dawn Heller, Dan Kushel, Timothy Vitale, and Gawain Weaver. 2017. The AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation Documentation, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artist Works.

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