Allington-Jones, LTrafford, A2020-05-272020-05-272017-04-202017-04-20Allington‐Jones, L. & A. Trafford. (2017). The Airless Project. Evolving Ideas: Provocative new ways of working with collections. Evolving Ideas: Provocative new ways of working with collections (Natural Sciences Collections Association Conference). Cambridge, UK, 20‐21 April 2017. London:http://hdl.handle.net/10141/622773A project to combat pyrite oxidation at the NHM (London, UK) is currently in its second year. The project aims to undertake conservation treatments and store highest risk specimens in low oxygen microenvironments. An emergent benefit of the conservation-driven project has been the digitisation of specimens on the collection management system KE Emu, through the use of barcodes and web-based applications.openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/Conference Proceedingspyrite oxidationconservation treatmentslow oxygen microenvironmentsKE Emudigitisation