Dear Reader Any multi-component art work is in danger of becoming disaggregated and its parts decomposed the longer and more varied its biography becomes. The re-association of parts into wholes has conventionally been made from within the domain of the curatorially inclined but nowadays, as the opening articles to this issue attest, it has become increasingly more incumbent upon conservators to provide forensic aid in the putting together or pulling apart of such things. In the first article on parts and wholes Bettina Ebert presents a twopronged investigation on the association of two medieval polychromed wooden figures from Norway. Using both a range of technical analyses and an appraisal of their ‘object biographies’, Ebert convincingly casts doubt over any continued linkage of them as being parts of an arguably fictive whole. In a second study of parthood relations, Tina Chanialaki et al. speculate that not only should two excavated textile fragments held in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens be at least digitally re-assembled but that a third fragment held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York could also be associated with them, especially if similar comparative technical analyses were undertaken. Shifting registers, in the Editorial of the February 2018 Journal mention was made of how, in our decision-making, we might become more deferent to the hubris of our contemporary technologies rather than to our brains for interpreting data, especially in the face of their exponentially increased abundance. But in an engagement with such technologies a brace of articles perspicaciously examine two diagnostic tools designed to better aid and abet those brains to expedite and ameliorate any potential damage or loss in information gathering. Chris Caple and Vicky Garlick argue that if our brains cannot but fail to register what might be potentially information-rich from the often discarded lumpy iron conglomerates found on many archaeological sites, then a costeffective digital x-radiography could help optimise the sorting operations of such a site’s ‘pre-objects’ into objects worthy of further appraisal and conservation. And if non-destructive analysis can sometimes inadvertently aggravate its subjects, it’s in a comprehensive engagement with the under-assumed potential for such over-excitation in one technique that Andrew Beeby et al. present a survey of probes used in fibre optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS). They demonstrate how their new and low-cost probe presents advantages for both a safer, more rigorous and reproducible analysis— here for pigments on manuscripts—especially as other systems depend on some kind of physical contact and are in danger of causing significant temperature rises to the area under scrutiny. In another comprehensive exhortation, Baars and Horak re-appraise earlier warnings on the deterioration of geological collections and still find them lost in the broad brushstroked parameters given for general collection care. They argue how mineral specimens demand as much attention as archaeological metals in understanding both their mechanisms of change and how such change constitutes damage, especially as the latter’s determination is often tempered by the intent for which a specimen was collected. Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 2018 Vol. 41, No. 2, 93–94, https://doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2018.1477266

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尊敬的读者：任何多成分的艺术作品都有被分解的危险，其组成部分的分解时间越长，其传记变得越发多样化。零件的重新组合通常是在策展倾向的范围内进行的，但如今，正如该问题的开篇文章所证明的那样，保管者越来越有责任在组装或拉动时提供法医帮助。除了这些东西。在有关整体的第一篇文章中，贝蒂娜·埃伯特（Bettina Ebert）对来自挪威的两个中世纪多彩木制人物的联想进行了双重分析。通过一系列的技术分析和对他们的“客体传记”的评估，埃伯特令人信服地对它们之间是否存在持续的联系表示怀疑，这些联系仍是虚构的整体的一部分。在第二份关于分居关系的研究中，蒂娜·钱纳拉基（Tina Chanialaki）等人。推测不仅应该重新组装在雅典国家考古博物馆中保存的两个挖掘出的纺织品碎片，而且至少应该以数字方式重新组装在纽约大都会艺术博物馆中保存的第三个碎片，特别是如果类似的比较进行了技术分析。在2018年2月的《社论》中，移位寄存器提到了在决策过程中我们如何更顺应当代技术的狂妄自大，而不是我们为解释数据而绞尽脑汁，尤其是面对它们时丰度成倍增加。但是，在与此类技术合作时，大量文章专门研究了两种诊断工具，这些工具旨在更好地帮助和教those那些大脑，以加快和缓解信息收集过程中的任何潜在损害或损失。克里斯·卡普尔（Chris Caple）和维姬·加里克（Vicky Garlick）认为，如果我们的大脑不得不从许多考古现场发现的经常被丢弃的块状铁团块中记录可能蕴藏着丰富信息的东西，那么具有成本效益的数字X射线照相术可以帮助优化此类信息的分类操作网站的“前对象”变成值得进一步评估和保护的对象。而且，如果非破坏性分析有时会无意间加剧其研究对象，那就是与安德鲁·比比（Andrew Beeby）等人所采用的一种技术-被低估的过度激励潜力-进行全面接触。目前对光纤反射光谱仪（FORS）中使用的探头进行了调查。他们展示了他们的新型低成本探针如何为更安全，更严格和可重现的分析（在此处用于手稿上的颜料）带来优势，尤其是因为其他系统依赖某种形式的物理接触，并且可能导致温度显着升高。受审查的区域。在另一项全面的劝告中，Baars和Horak重新评估了有关地质收藏品恶化的早期警告，但仍发现它们在为一般收藏家提供的广泛的笔触参数中丢失了。他们争辩说，矿物标本如何像考古金属一样需要尽可能多的关注，以了解其变化机理以及这种变化如何构成破坏，尤其是因为后者的确定常常受到收集样本意图的影响。保护学院学报，2018卷。41，第2号，93–94，https://doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2018.1477266