Assessing Risk to Cultural Property 2
Challenges to Quantification and Estimating Type 2 and 3 Risks
| Instructors: | Robert Waller | Moya Dumville |
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| Course Date: | March 31, 2025 | |
| Cost: | $400 |
Assessing Risk to Cultural Property 1 or Participation in a Protect Heritage workshop within the past 5 years
Participants will appreciate the impact of human thinking heuristics and biases on judgments and how these impact our understanding of risks. An Excel workbook for organizing and documenting a risk assessment will be provided. Using this workbook and working individually and in groups, participants will determine or estimate examples of both type 2 type 3 risks impacting their own collections.
- Course Goals
During our four week Assessing Risk to Cultural Property Level 2 course participants will:
Week 1:
Recap Level 1
Appreciate departures from rationality in our everyday thinking
Choose a collection unit to work with in this course
Week 2:
Introduction to the Excel Workbook
Define type 3 specific risks
Risk variable rationales and assignments
Week 3:
Finding further evidence for quantifying type 3 risks
Identify and define type 2 risks
Identifying a comprehensive set of specific risks in a generic risk
Week 4:
Assigning loss in value and extent of loss in value
Extent estimation strategies
Presenting results
Risk assessment and management approaches to preventive conservation were first suggested almost 35 years ago. Since then, numerous approaches have been developed, applied, and published. Three of the better known approaches include Quiskscan, ABC, and the Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model (CPRAM). People unfamiliar with these may think that they are interchangeable, and each could have value in any given context. That is not true. Each of these approaches was developed within a specific context and for certain purposes. This presentation briefly describes each of these three approaches, and their strengths and limitations. Armed with this understanding, institutions and collection care professionals can decide which approach(es) they believe will be most beneficial for their situation. Make sure you choose an approach that will be fit for your purpose. Watch the webinar Robert gave on September 12, 2023 Risk-based approaches to preventive conservation: Which to choose for my situation?
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Assessing Risk to Cultural Property 2 addresses the American Association for State and Local History's
- Stewardship of Collections Standard 2: The Institution legally, ethically, and effectively manages, documents, cares for, and uses the collections. Does the institution take appropriate measures to ensure the safety and security of artifacts and archival items in its care?
- American Association for State and Local History's Management Standard 4: The institution has appropriate measures to ensure the safety and security of people, its collections and/or objects, and the facilities it owns or uses.
- American Association for State and Local History's Management Standard 7: The institution takes appropriate measures to protect itself against potential risk and loss.
Comments from participants:
I enjoyed this course, especially the chats where we were able to see how everyone was understanding the material, and to work through sticking points together.