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Getty Conservation Institute
The '''Getty Conservation Institute''' (GCI), in [[Los Angeles, California]], is a program of the [[J. Paul Getty Trust]]. It is headquartered at the [[Getty Center]] but also has facilities at the [[Getty Villa]]. It commenced operation in 1985.<ref name=GCI>J. Paul Getty Trust. [http://www.getty.edu/conservation/institute/ About the Conservation Institute.] Retrieved May 2, 2011.</ref> The GCI is a private international research institution dedicated to advancing (contracted; show full)>Kennedy, Randy. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/arts/design/01kenn.html Arsenic and old photos.] ''New York Times'', April 1, 2007.</ref> As a part of that project, Getty scientists once examined the world's first photograph from nature by [[Nicéphore Niépce]].<ref>Lyden, Jacki, and Dusan Stulik. [https://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2002/mar/photograph/ Analyzing the world's first photograph. Precious image studied at Getty Institute in Los Angeles.]
 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615220328/http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2002/mar/photograph/ |date=2012-06-15 }} National Public Radio, April 7, 2002. Retrieved August 26, 2008.</ref> Using [[X-ray fluorescence]] spectroscopy, reflectance [[Infrared spectroscopy#Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy|Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy]], and other techniques during the 2002-2003 project, they found (for example) that [[bitumen of Judea]] was present in the image.<ref name=Ransom>Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/conservation.html The first photograph: conservation and preservation.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615065702/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/conservation.html |date=2011-06-15 }} Retrieved August 26, 2008.</ref>

== Education and training ==
Training of conservation works is an important part of GCI's work.<ref name=Adams/> For example, GCI collaborated with other organizations to create a course "to assist museum personnel in safeguarding their collections from the effects of natural and human-made emergencies."<ref>Getty Conservation Institute. [http://www.getty.edu/conservation/education/teamwork/ Teamwork for Integrated Emergency Management.] Re(contracted; show full)correspondence and memoranda, budgets, contracts, publication development and design material, images, and training materials, dating 1994-2007, created and maintained by the Field Projects Division of the Getty Conservation Institute. The materials concern the development, operation, and results of Field Projects’ Recording, Documentation, and Information Management (RecorDIM) Initiative.

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