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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">conservation</topic></authority><related type="narrower"><topic>preventive conservation</topic></related><related type="narrower"><topic>architectural conservation</topic></related><related type="narrower"><topic>archaeological conservation</topic></related><related type="narrower"><topic>ethnographic conservation</topic></related><related type="narrower"><topic>sustainable conservation</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>conservation concepts</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>conservation</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>restoration</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>conservators</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>conservation scientists</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>preservation</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>minimal intervention</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>cross- and interdisciplinary fields</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>conserving</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ The discipline involving treatment, preventive care, and research directed toward the long-term safekeeping of cultural and natural heritage. For actions taken to halt changes or deterioration in objects, sites, or structures, see "preservation (function)"; for changes made to an object or structure so that it will closely approximate its original or other past state, see "restoration (process)."  ]]></note></mads>