Giuseppina Padeletti

Dr. Giuseppina Padeletti

Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials – National Council of Research (ISMN-CNR), Area della Ricerca Roma1, via Salaria km 29.5, 00015 Monterotondo, Italy

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Academic Career Length

9Years (2018-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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22 November 2018 in Heritage
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THTobias Hellmund
Tobias Hellmund
PHPhilipp Hertweck
Philipp Hertweck
DHDésirée Hilbring
Désirée Hilbring
JMJürgen Moßgraber
Jürgen Moßgraber
George AlexandrakisGeorge Alexandrakis
George Alexandrakis
Giuseppina PadelettiGiuseppina Padeletti
Giuseppina Padeletti
Cultural Heritage (CH) (In the context of this paper, we consider cultural heritage built tangible cultural heritage, such as buildings or monuments.) is an important source of identity for humankind and needs to be conserved for future generations. Climate change (CC) will morph the environmental landscape, thus leading to climate stress imposed on CH. Experts from different domains, including, but not limited to, material scientists, conservators and managers of cultural heritage collaborate to find out how CC affects CH and how potentially harmful impacts can be mitigated. To find and understand correlations and effects of different factors, researchers collect and analyse vast amounts of data. Still, experts often cannot exchange or make efficient use of data since it often is unstructured, incompatible, or its plain existence is simply unknown. This article introduces means to achieve consent about available knowledge, to exploit synergy effects through the combination of available information and to provide a flexible multisource information platform in collaborative cultural heritage management projects. In the context of the European project HERACLES (HERACLES—HEritage Resilience Against CLimate Events on Site. Further information: http://www.heracles-project.eu/), an application-ontology was developed. The ontology facilitates reuse and integration of data through structuring and representing its semantics. The involvement in the HERACLES project guaranteed end-user driven development, practical results and encompassment of all domains represented in the project.

8 December 2018 in Heritage
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FCFernanda Carvalho
Fernanda Carvalho
ALAndreia Lopes
Andreia Lopes
Antonella CurulliAntonella Curulli
Antonella Curulli
Teresa SilvaTeresa Silva
Teresa Silva
MLMaria Margarida Rolim Augusto Lima
Maria Margarida Rolim Augusto Lima
João Pedro VeigaJoão Pedro Veiga
João Pedro Veiga
Good conservation and restoration practices of cultural heritage assets rely on the knowledge of original materials. In the framework of the HERACLES Project (HERACLES—HEritage Resilience Against CLimate Events on Site, H2020 Grant Agreement 700395), dealing with the effects of climatic actions and natural hazards on built heritage, a set of important heritage sites are currently under study to improve their resilience against climate events. Among these are the medieval Gubbio Town Walls in Italy. The present work focuses on the mortars and binders of this monument and collected samples related to different parts of the Walls, corresponding to various historical periods of construction and interventions. They were characterized to determine their minerochemical composition, thermal behavior, and morphology. For that purpose, ex-situ laboratory techniques, such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF), optical microscopy (OM), polarized light microscopy (PLM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and simultaneous differential thermal analysis and thermogravimetry (TG-DTA) were used to discern trends in different sampling areas due to construction/reconstruction periods and building techniques.