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In and Around Conservation
This page has tools for finding people involved in the conservation and allied professions.
These resources are listed here as a service to the conservation community. Listing here does not imply endorsement of any products or services offered by these entities nor does absence of a listing imply any criticism of a product or service. Please reread that sentence. Now read it again. Thanks.
See also Finding a conservator below
The ConsDir is a directory of people involved professionally with the conservation of museum, library, and archive material. The list is derived from the Conservation DistList, whose participants fill out a questionnaire giving information about how to contact them, their professional interests or specialties, etc.
It currently contains 9000 entries
If you are listed in the ConsDir, please check your entry and report any changes, errors, etc. to consdist-request@lindy.stanford.edu. If you are not listed and are professionally involved with the conservation of museum, library, and archive materials, you can be listed by participating in the Conservation DistList
For information on selecting a conservator, see
"The Conservation Register holds detailed information on conservation-restoration practices from across the UK and Ireland. Practices meet specified criteria to be included and whether you are a private owner, or work in the heritage sector, you can use this website to search by object type and geographical location for the expertise you require. Supported by English Heritage, Resource, Historic Scotland, Institute of Paper Conservation, The Clothworkers' Foundation, UK Institute for Conservation, The Glaziers Trust."
"The purpose of the site is to provide private and public collectors and institutions the knowledge and information necessary to find a conservator who will best treat an object in need of conservation.
"Art-Care is the online art service community offering solutions and providing a choice for art patrons, museum curators, collectors, and anyone in need of professional conservation services. We've harnessed the power of the Internet to revolutionize art conservation by connecting people and knowledge, with highly personalized yet easy-to-use software and customized storefront Web sites for conservation professionals.
"All Art-Care member-conservators belong to the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, and/or a local conservation guild. Members of these organizations are bound of codes of ethics and guidelines for the professional practice. Only Professional Associate and Fellow member are entitled to use the name AIC or their membership status with in AIC in advertising or in representing themselves to the public as professional practitioners (Reprinted with the permission from the AIC). Conservators or restorers who are not members of the AIC or IIC have been rated by current and former customers using the "Franklin Report Scoring Criteria". The professional credentials of each Art-Care member are noted in their individual listing.
"Art-Care is the brainchild of Judith Watkins Tartt, who has been working as a painting conservator for almost thirty years. ..."
Art-Care, Inc.
2105 R Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
Phone 202-426-2112
1-866-ART-4455
Fax 202-588-6370
Note that Art-Care is a commercial service in which member conservators pay a fee for listing.
This very valuable resource lists CAPC geographically and by specialty, indicating which members accept private commissions, accreditation status, as well as contact information.
CAPHC Members, in the following categories: Archaeologist and Anthropologist; Archivist; Building Specialist; Conservator; Craft and Trade; Cultural Tourism and Marketing; Educator; Environmental Assessment; Historian; Landscape Specialist; Museum Specialist; Photographer/Illustrator/Recorder; Planner; Public Sector Representative; Other Specialist
The Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists (WEDA) is a searchable directory of anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines from around the world. Here, anthropology is meant in its broadest sense, to include not only those in the four subfields of anthropology (archaeology, physical and social/cultural anthropology, and linguistics), but also scholars in the physical and social science, as well as those in the humanities such as art historians, modern and ancient languages, and classical studies. The names and mailing addresses of academic & research institutions, museums, government and private organisations, individual scholars, journals, laboratories, and electronic databases are listed. Each entry includes the regular street/postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and then the names and email addresses of faculty and staff members.
Includes registry of musical instrument repair technicians, and directories of instrument makers, musical instrument manufacturers, trade associations, publications, educational resources, and suppliers
International Directory of Photography Historians
Alternate Photographic Processes, a directory of photographers around the world who practice so-called 'alternative' or 'non-silver' photo processes. These processes include Cyanotype, Kallitype, Platinum/Palladium, Van Dyke and Gum Bichromate among others.
Including mycologists, ichthyologists, herpetologists, plant taxonomists, etc.
Worldwide List of Entomologists
"The World Directory of Systematic Entomologists is derived from lists of correspondents maintained for various reasons by offices, staff members and other affiliates of NMNH. The Directory includes all persons who have borrowed, lent, donated or sold specimens from/to NMNH. In addition, it contains the memberships of the many mailing lists maintained for purposes of newsletter mailings. The list presently contains over 6,000 names and addresses and is still growing. Some of the addresses are quite old (up to six years old), some of the persons listed are not entomologists (e.g. pollination ecologists on the Melissa newsletter mailing list), and some names are duplicated due to differences in spelling or variations in the use of initials among the various newsletters"
This group of resources consists of general (not
discipline-specific) tools for finding people on the net. Some work
better than others. Some of the info in this section has been lifted
from documents at http://www.w3.org
A great collection of searchable directories for finding businesses, individuals, government agencies etc.
A very useful database of email addresses, and you can add your own address while you're there
Whois is an Internet service by means of which an organization can provide directory information about itself. Universities, firms, and other organizations often set up Whois servers that provide information about staff, students, and in some cases machines, and this can be a really valuable way to find who or what you're you're looking for. Unfortunately, to use Whois, you've got to know the address of the Whois server at the organization. MIT's Student Information Processing Board maintain a List of Whois Servers
Much of the world uses a set of network protocols known as OSI, and the directory services portion of those protocols is X.500. Chemnitz-Zwickau Technical University maintained a searchable/browsable X.500 services and see also National Directory Interfaces (NameFLOW). These may not have been updated recently.
The RTFM service at MIT runs a directory of people who have posted articles to the Usenet news service. This is accessible by email only: send a 1-line mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu saying
send usenet-addresses/name
(replacing name with the name you are looking for).
Many organizations now run Web directories of their own, so it's worth trying URLs like www.orgname.domain (replacing orgname with the organization's network name and domain with their likely domain name.
Provides telephone country codes and area codes/city codes for cities around the world. This info is derived from the telecom-archives
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