NCPTT

NCPTT’s Historic Landscapes Program encourages research and partnerships to improve the technologies available to practitioners as they undertake the complex tasks of documenting, preserving, and interpreting historic landscapes significant to a wide variety of people and cultures.

Projects
Electronic Landscape Maintenance Plan

The Historic Landscapes Program is in the process of developing a  web-based tool for planning and management of [...]

NCPTT’s Materials Research Program focuses on understanding how cultural materials deteriorate with time and on developing new methods to preserve these materials.

Research
Summit of Preservation Scientists

NCPTT partnered with the Library of Congress and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to host a two-day summit focusing on future directions in preservation science. The meeting was held July [...]

The information technology component of NCPTT is primarily responsible for information management of grants and projects, the NCPTT website, in-office computer systems, and product distribution.
PTTGrants
NCPTT’s in-house PTT grants system has completed the application and selection cycle for 2008 as well as the application cycle for 2009.  Ongoing improvement of the PTT Grant application [...]

NCPTT’s Architecture & Engineering program encourages research and partnerships with organizations and institutions working to advance preservation technology for buildings and other structures.

Research
US/ICOMOS Cooperative Agreement: Internship and Preservation Technology Research
The U.S. division of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) and NCPTT are developing an annual awards program that will serve as an [...]

The 1992 Amendments to the National Historic Preservation Act, Title IV (16 U.S.C. 470x-4) provide that, “The Secretary, in consultation with the Board, shall provide preservation technology and training grants to eligible applicants with a demonstrated institutional capability and commitment to the purposes of the Center, in order to ensure an effective and efficient system [...]

NCPTT’s Public Relations and Marketing program establishes the Center’s relevance to its stakeholders by using a full range of media to project a consistent, unified brand throughout its programs and research initiatives.
During Fiscal Year 2008, NCPTT advanced its web communication efforts through the use of social media. The term social media refers to [...]

NCPTT’s Archeology & Collections program seeks to enhance the preservation of archeological sites, landscapes, materials, and collections through research, grants, and partnerships.
Fiscal Year 2008 was a successful one for the A&C program.  In the first half of the year, budget constraints demanded a more focused approach to the range of initiatives presented in prior [...]