idea 39 · needs institution input
Team grid
Curators and conservators, roles first, photos when you have them.
Mauritshuis, The Girl in the Spotlight
The examination was run by an international team of scientists and conservators, and the paper credits them by discipline.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-019-0307-5The team
Roles first
01
Paintings conservator
Name to come
Treatment, condition reports, the glass chamber.
02
Imaging scientist
Name to come
MA-XRF, reflectance spectroscopy, the 12,500 files.
03
Curator
Name to come
What the object means, and which questions are worth the money.
04
Conservation scientist
Name to come
Paint samples, cross sections, pigment identification.
05
Registrar
Name to come
Movement, insurance, and who signed for it.
06
Digital lead
Name to come
Where all of this ends up, and whether anyone can read it in 2050.
Six roles, drawn from how a technical examination is actually staffed. The names are greyed because no real person has been invented for this page, and the portrait slots stay numbered until you send photographs and consent.
Sample · needs institution input
Building the grid role first means the page is finished before the photographs arrive, and it stays honest while it waits. Consent matters here as much as image quality: staff portraits on a public app need a yes on the record and a way to withdraw it.