Abstract
Jan Hozák, Petr Krajči, Zdeněk Rasl
The Mellon Project: The Way to Re-formatting the Flooded Project Documentation
The extent of damage of archive documents in the collections of the National Technical Museum is not so catastrophic as it seemed to have been in the first moments after the flood receded. Copies of important architectural drawings and aerial plans and photographs, made even before the flood, showed some ways of preservation of irreplaceable materials. The partial solutions need be put together into one integral system of duplicating archive materials. Furthermore, it is necessary to dry the frozen materials and sterilize them, therefore whatever practical pieces of knowledge from the country and from abroad as well are valuable. The paper comprises experience from both fields gained up to now, and it defines starting points for the pilot project of re-formatting a great number of important documents.