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<p>As cultural heritage conservation increasingly relies on multi-source analytical data, procedural records, and information intended for long-term preservation, conservation documentation has become an archival object with evidential, administrative, and research value. Existing documentation approaches, however, still rely mainly on structured frameworks or condition survey instruments, which are limited in their ability to organise complex conservation information generated across multiple stages and to preserve evidential relationships across records. Drawing on existing discussions of modularity, information architecture, and archival information organisation, this study reconceptualises conservation documentation as a problem of archival information organisation. It develops a modular method through workflow analysis, record structure analysis, and metadata mapping, and proposes an archival framework consisting of ten interrelated modules. The framework is tested through a case study of palm-leaf manuscript conservation. The results indicate that the framework can integrate heterogeneous conservation information, strengthen semantic connections and procedural continuity across records, and improve the evidential integrity and long-term reusability of conservation records. The study offers a transferable framework for the archival organisation of conservation documentation and supports the development of structured and sustainable conservation documentation systems.</p>

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Modular archive construction for conservation documentation: an archival information framework for palm-leaf manuscript conservation

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    2026年7月3日

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  • Yan Li,
  • Jingyu Zhang,
  • Hanwei Yu,
  • Shuang Yu,
  • Peng Liu,
  • Yanyan Huang

摘要

As cultural heritage conservation increasingly relies on multi-source analytical data, procedural records, and information intended for long-term preservation, conservation documentation has become an archival object with evidential, administrative, and research value. Existing documentation approaches, however, still rely mainly on structured frameworks or condition survey instruments, which are limited in their ability to organise complex conservation information generated across multiple stages and to preserve evidential relationships across records. Drawing on existing discussions of modularity, information architecture, and archival information organisation, this study reconceptualises conservation documentation as a problem of archival information organisation. It develops a modular method through workflow analysis, record structure analysis, and metadata mapping, and proposes an archival framework consisting of ten interrelated modules. The framework is tested through a case study of palm-leaf manuscript conservation. The results indicate that the framework can integrate heterogeneous conservation information, strengthen semantic connections and procedural continuity across records, and improve the evidential integrity and long-term reusability of conservation records. The study offers a transferable framework for the archival organisation of conservation documentation and supports the development of structured and sustainable conservation documentation systems.