With funding from the Research in Information Technology Program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, two community design meetings for conservation documentation will be held in 2009, the first in early March at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, primarily for North American participants, the second in early April at the National Gallery, London, primarily for UK and European participants.

The focus of these meetings is solely on the requirements, as described by professional conservators and conservation scientists, for a software application that would support and help manage their work, its documentation, and related scientific data.