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O*NET detailed work activityPrepare materials for preservation, storage, or display
Stays humanHands-on work
5 jobs9 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Arrange displays or decorations, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 9 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Repair, restore, and reassemble artifacts, designing and fabricating missing or broken parts, to restore them to their original appearance and prevent deterioration.
- Archive diagnostic material, such as histologic slides and blocks.
- Clean objects, such as paper, textiles, wood, metal, glass, rock, pottery, and furniture, using cleansers, solvents, soap solutions, and polishes.
- Preserve records, documents, and objects, copying records to film, videotape, audiotape, disk, or computer formats as necessary.
- Install, arrange, assemble, and prepare artifacts for exhibition, ensuring the artifacts' safety, reporting their status and condition, and identifying and correcting any problems with the set up.
- Prepare artifacts for storage and shipping.
- Conserve and preserve manuscripts, records, and other artifacts.
- Preserve or direct preservation of objects, using plaster, resin, sealants, hardeners, and shellac.
- Frame and mat artwork for display or sale.