Talk:Cultural property radiography

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Your work does illustrate the recommended requirements for written articles by Wikipedia. Your article is well-composed and unbiased. You do not include any personal views or experiences which is superb. You utilize citations from reputable sources, such as MRM5 and the Smithsonian, which backs up your knowledge of the subject. Overall, you cover the important aspects of climate control. The only suggestion I have would be to create a stronger lead into your article. I suggest putting a heading at the very top of the article of your topic. Other than that, great work! Pocahontess (talk) 05:40, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your article is concise and the linkages that you included to other Wikipedia articles to explain certain terms allows your article to be easily understood. Judging by your citations, you used respected resources to retrieve information for your article. Your article is useful to those who wish to combat damaging factors like humidity and temperature within their museums, as you offer a solution, the HVAC system, and suggest that certain tools be used to monitor the museum environment to ensure that the system is performing correctly. One suggestion, I wonder if you could elaborate on how each of the factors that you listed, like humidity and temperature, impacts an object's stability so that readers may better understand why an HVAC system is so necessary in a museum. Ehorbie (talk) 19:43, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your article does meet the requirements for Wikipedia. I like that you are providing examples of different mediums that have utilized x-ray radiography. I did encounter one other medium as I know that you are looking for more examples, and that is a totem pole. I will copy and paste the link here found in section 6.7 "Radiographic Methods": https://books.google.com/books?id=M5vCl0jlCCUC&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=examination+of+totem+poles+grattan+radiography&source=bl&ots=Gbft6DfTKs&sig=cf9iH7s_n-yfrIw-Fa4UrtSpuDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAmoVChMI1uz7n7GWyQIVCtIeCh1czg9_#v=onepage&q=examination%20of%20totem%20poles%20grattan%20radiography&f=false The only suggestion I have is to provide more background information on what X-ray Radiography is, which I assume you already plan on doing. I really look forward to seeing your final article. Pocahontess (talk) 02:28, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sarah, radiography is something I know very little about, though the examples we have read about in this course are fascinating, so I look forward to reading more about you many case studies that you have in your outline. You have a healthy list of applications for the technology. However, for those of us who aren’t familiar with the technology, you may want to include a section about the nature of the technology and also discuss who actually uses it (it would be good place to discuss conservation science). I’d be curious to learn about how this technology came to be used in museums and in conservation. How many museums can afford to use it? Do museums have their own equipment, or do they rely of companies and labs who specialize in radiography? This section about the technology and the history of its use could probably be the first header after the table of contents. I’m sure you already have sources, but in case you haven’t seen these websites, yet, there is some excellent information on radiography on the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute site (http://www.si.edu/MCIImagingStudio/X-ray) and the Getty Conservation Institute (http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/tags/x-radiography/). Also, I’m completely obsessed with the Antikythera mechanism. I even wrote an action-adventure screenplay 20 years ago inspired by it. Ednla (talk) 04:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]