Lectures sheduled:

• Dr. Richard Kim (USA) : Electronic Signature Authentication and Memorabilia Registry
• Marita Kuhn (www.paperdoc.de): Professional paper and autograph restoration and a guideline how to protect your autograph collection.
• Daniel Schweizer: Outstanding autograph framings

Dipl.-Rest. Marita Kuhn

„Restaurierung und Konservierung von Kunst – und Kulturgut“

Ein Einblick über die Technik und Möglichkeiten für die Restaurierung von Autographen

Dr. Richard Kim (USA) - Electronic Signature Authentication and Memorabilia Registry

Is it real? Well, we all know that the signature authentication is a difficult problem.
Most of my research has been in machine vision (computer image processing, rather human expert) to determine the authenticity of signatures. Also, my field has been in legal documents and business processes (contracts, agreements, authorizations, etc.) rather than in autographed memorabilia. However, the goals are the same: did the correct person sign the item, at claimed time and location, with proper intent?
In addition, in order for an item to be truly real, the complete provenance of the item must be recorded, preserved and proven. The important issue is preserving the chain-of-custody: from generation to ownership and documenting the transfer process.