Entry Information Required

Conditions of Entry for each Award and Judging Criteria

The Award for Conservation

What the Judges are looking for
  • Exemplary work that may influence future practice
  • Improvement in the quality of physical and intellectual access achieved
Conditions of entry
  • Project must have been carried out in the UK
  • Project must be completed by a date between 1 November 2006 and 31 July 2010
  • The principal applicant must be an accredited conservator-restorer or be working towards accreditation
  • Joint and collaborative applications are accepted
Entry Information Required
  • Project Description (up to 1500 words) set out as:
    • Work undertaken
    • Exemplary features
    • Improvements in physical and/or intellectual access
    • Planning of project and management of resources
    • Communication of the Project to the professional and public audiences
    • Collaboration with colleagues and others
  • Technical Report (up to 2500 words)
    • Methods and techniques undertaken
    • Ethical and other relevant issues
  • Images (submitted as separate .jpeg files)
    • Tell the story/ illustrate the success
    • Maximum of ten images 
  • Publicity Materials (up to five examples)
    • Published articles/ website information/ leaflets
  • Letter(s) of authorisation
    • Applicant’s parent institution, any external organisation or individual closely involved in the Project

The Award for Care of Collections

What the Judges are looking for
  • Innovative tackling of collection care issues
  • Exemplary work that may influence future practice
  • Step-change in the approach to the care of the collection(s)
  • Significant and measurable improvements over a defined period of time
  • Sustainable solution with a clear plan for the future
Conditions of entry
  • Project must have been carried out in the UK
  • Project must be completed by a date between 1 November 2006 and 31 July 2010
  • The principal applicant must be an Icon member
  • Joint or collaborative applications are accepted
Entry Information Required
  • Project description (up to 4000 words)
    • Rationale for the collections care initiative
    • Significant measurable improvements achieved
    • Sustainability for the future
    • Planning and management of resources
    • Communication with professional and public audiences
  • Images (submitted as separate .jpeg files)
    • Tell the story/ illustrate the success
    • Maximum of ten images  
  • Publicity Materials (up to five examples)
    • Published articles/ website information/ leaflets
  • Letter(s) of authorisation
    • Applicant’s parent institution, any external organisation or individual closely involved in the Projec

The Student Conservator of the Year Award

What the Judges are looking for
  • Exemplary and/or innovative work
  • A well planned project
  • Potential wider benefit
  • Effective communication of the project (undertaken or planned)
  • High quality of collaboration
Conditions of entry
  • Project must have been carried out in the UK
  • Project must have been completed as part of a training programme or internship in the UK between 1 January 2007 and 31 July 2010
  • The principal applicant must be an Icon member
  • Joint or collaborative applications are accepted
Entry Information Required
  • Project Description (up to 1500 words)
    • Work undertaken
    • Exemplary/innovative features
    • Planning of project and management of resources
    • Collaboration with colleagues and others
    • Communication of the project undertaken or planned
    • Technical report (up to 2000 words)
    • Method and techniques used
  • Images (submitted as separate .jpeg files)
    • Tell the story/ illustrate the success
    • Maximum of ten images  
  • Publicity Materials (up to five examples)
    • Published articles/ website information/ leaflets
  • Letter(s) of authorisation and support
    • Applicants’ parent institution, any external organisation or individual closely involved in the Project

Anna Plowden Trust Award

What the Judges are looking for
  • Research aimed at furthering the understanding of materials, their technology of production and their conservation
  • The development of materials, equipment, systems or techniques for improved conservation and collections care, examination, analysis, treatment or monitoring
  • Wider benefit to the conservation of heritage
  • Excellence in project design, experimental technique, imaginative investigations, innovative solutions, resourcefulness
  • Revelations or discoveries  
  • Quality of collaboration with other researchers, with clients and others
Conditions of entry
  • Project must have been carried out in the UK
  • Project must be completed by a date between 1 November 2006 and 31 July 2010
  • Joint or collaborative applications are accepted
Entry Information Required
  • Project Description (up to 1500 words) set out as:
    • Work undertaken
    • Exemplary features
    • Improvements in physical and/or intellectual access
    • Planning of project and management of resources
    • Communication of the Project to the professional and public audiences
    • Collaboration with colleagues and others
  • Technical Report (up to 2500 words)
    • Methods and techniques undertaken
    • Ethical and other relevant issues
  • Images (submitted as separate .jpeg files)
    • Tell the story/ illustrate the success
    • Maximum of ten images 
  • Publicity Materials (up to five examples)
    • Published articles/ website information/ leaflets
  • Letter(s) of authorisation
    • Applicant’s parent institution, any external organisation or individual closely involved in the Projec

2010 Digital Preservation Award.

For conditions of entry and judging criteria please see

http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/2010-digital-preservation-award.html

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