Conservation and Monitoring Recommendations for Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) assets

This file contains a curated table of conservation and monitoring recommendations for underwater cultural heritage (UCH) assets. The dataset compiles guidance from the scientific and conservation literature and structures it in a way that can be used both directly by practitioners and as input for decision-support or AI advisory systems. Each row corresponds to a specific combination of material type, severity of damage, and dominant degradation process, along with the recommended intervention strategy. The following fields are included:– Material: category of the UCH object (e.g., stone, iron, wood).– Severity of Damage: qualitative level of deterioration (e.g., moderate, high, severe).– Type of Degradation: main observed degradation process (e.g., biofouling, corrosion, biological attack, structural erosion).– Expert Recommendation: concise, practical guidance on appropriate conservation, cleaning, stabilization, or monitoring actions.– Description: short explanation of the rationale and conservation objective of the recommendation.– Link: reference URL to the source publication or technical report used to derive the recommendation.