“The SAFE research group launched the monitoring project by installing a set of dataloggers in the film vault of the Cineteca dello Stretto. In collaboration with Tecno-El, SAFE aims at monitoring the macro and microenvironment of four film vaults of non-theatrical film archives located in different Italian regions to indentify to possible ways to improve the passive conservation systems (by taking into consideration the geographical specificities and particular collections needs of each organization). The final outcome of this project will be the publication of guidelines for microclimate monitoring for non-theatrical film archives.
Shortly after the organization of the non-conference The Past is the Future (8-10 November) organized by the Cineteca dello Stretto where the SAFE project was presented, staff members of the Cineteca and the SAFE project have installed the dataloggers in key positions in the archive for a one-year period. These dataloggers will record temperature and relative humidity levels. The team started also to indentify the film samples that will be monitored for acidity level during the same period.”