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General presentation of COSADOCA and incorporated institutions. You will find the consortium's mission, agreement and bylaws as well as the disaster cases which have taken place in Switzerland in the last few years.

Practical training

Practical training is one of COSADOCA's main objectives. Experience indicates that any emergency plan without the training of intervention teams loses its efficacy in cases of disaster.

Emergency plan

This section briefly defines the emergency plan. The emergency plans of COSADOCA's member institutions are accessible by way of examples.

Präsentation (D) Presentazione (I)

Practical sheets

There are more than 70 practical sheets regarding the preservation, conservation and restoration of documents. Research by theme and by media can be made.

Specialist Directory

In the directory you will find preservation, conservation and restoration specialists as well as suppliers of material needed for preservation and conservation.

For more information

Bibliographic and web-graphic references regarding the salvage of documentary patrimony: general information on the conservation, preventive conservation, security and prevention of disasters…

Intranet

This part is reserved for the collaborators from COSADOCA's member institutions.

Access to the emergency plans

Consortium for the Preservation of Documentary Patrimony in Case of Disaster

In existence since 2003, this consortium combines:

• The The Vaud Cantonal Archives (ACV)
• The SISB (Scientific Information and Libraries) of the EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
• The Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne (BCU)

COSADOCA is integrated in an international program for the protection of documentary patrimony:

• ICBS (International Committee of the Blue Shield)
• IFLA-PAC Program
• ECPA (European Commission on Preservation and Access)
• PBC (Protection of Cultural Property)