scholarly journals Is it the Thought that Counts? An evaluation of Digital Archaeological Data Archiving in Catalonia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Batlle Baró
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Data Archiving ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Data Archives

Archaeological data archiving has not been a major concern in Catalonia. The heritage legal corpus does not engage with the archiving and curation of archaeological data other than the excavation reports. However, it highlights the responsibility of the administration in cataloguing and disseminating the cultural heritage. For this reason, a lot of effort has been invested during the past few years in inventorying known archaeological sites and publishing archaeological reports, with the aim of increasing the transparency of the administration towards its citizens. This article describes the present situation for archaeology in Catalonia, its legal framework and the main initiatives carried out to archive, manage, and publish archaeological data from a user's point of view. Its main aim is to evaluate the current state of archaeological data archives and public databases by analysing the existing platforms with a set of indicators. This assessment leads to the conclusion that the current repositories and databases could be more worthwhile if some limitations were overcome, but also that the advance in archaeological data archiving is restricted by existing law.

Movie Envy

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Olivier Asselin
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Movie Theatre ◽  
The Relationship

“Canadian cinema.” The term may appear self-evident but is problematic. First, one may question the value of national approaches to culture, especially here, in Quebec and Canada, where the debates over the Nation seem interminable, and especially now, in an era of globalization. Next, one may question the value of media-centered approaches to culture, especially when the successive waves of the “digital revolution” have blurred the boundaries between technologies and among artistic practices. Rather than try to survey “important” fiction films for theatres in Quebec or Canada, this essay adopts another point of view to examine the presence of cinema in Montreal museums over the past few years by focusing on three singular exhibitions. It may well be symptomatic of the current state of film in Quebec and Canada—but also, paradoxically, everywhere else—and says much about the relationship between medium and nation, the expansion of cinema beyond the movie theatre, and the internationalization of culture.

scholarly journals DEVELOP AN EDUCATIONAL MODEL THAT PRESERVES AND PROMOTES THE IDENTITY OF THE TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE RA-GLAI ETHNIC MINORITY IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING A NEW COUNTRYSIDE IN BAC AI DISTRICT, NINH THUAN PROVINCE - SITUATION AND SOLUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngô Quang Sơn ◽  
Trần Văn Toàn
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Conservation Education ◽  
Educational Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Sizable Proportion ◽  
New Countryside

Ra-glai ethnic minorities make up a sizable proportion of the population in Ninh Thuan province in general and Bac Ai district in particular. Ra-glai ethnic minorities have a long-standing culture and have a unique ethnic identity. The tangible and intangible cultural identity of the Ra-glai ethnic minority is both closely associated with religious beliefs and widely popular, has great power to dominate all activities of Ra-glai ethnic minorities. The conservation and promotion of the tangible and intangible cultural heritages of the Ra-glai ethnic group in Bac Ai district, Ninh Thuan province in the process of building a new countryside is now becoming one of the issues authorized by the party committee, local authorities are very interested in implementing.Over the past years, with the investment of the State, the province, the district, the local organizations and individuals, the education to preserve and promote the ethnic cultural identity of the Ra-glai community In Bac Ai district, Ninh Thuan province has achieved some encouraging results. However, in the process of building a new countryside, the culture of the local Ra-glai ethnic minority has been gradually fading.The authors of the paper have deeply studied the current state of conservation education and promotion of the cultural heritage of Ra-glai ethnic minorities in Bac Ai district, Ninh Thuan province, then proposing solutions to building an educational model that conserves and promotes the cultural heritage of Ra-glai ethnic minorities in a sustainable way in the process of building a New Rural in Bac Ai district, Ninh Thuan province in the period of the current.

Law and the Politics of the Past: Legal Protection of Cultural Heritage in Greece

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne Voudouri
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
International Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Source Countries ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Of Greece

AbstractThis article examines the main lines of Greek legislation on antiquities and on cultural heritage in general, in the course of its history, with an emphasis on the innovations and continuity of the current Law 3028 of 2002. It attempts to place the Greek case in the context of the relevant international experience and the broader debate about ownership of the past. It throws light on the relationship between the legal framework of antiquities and the formation and fostering of national identity in Greece, and on their close connection with the state, while at the same time criticizing the view that opposes a “cultural internationalist” approach to heritage to the “cultural nationalism” of Greece and other source countries.

scholarly journals HBIM FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES: FROM SFM BASED SURVEY TO ALGORITHMIC MODELING

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W9 ◽  
pp. 57-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Bagnolo ◽  
R. Argiolas ◽  
A. Cuccu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Geometric Modeling ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Modeling Process ◽  
First Results ◽  
Different Characteristics

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The implementation of new technologies often leads research towards experimentation with new methodological approaches. The BIM process applied in cultural heritage is increasingly consolidating its practices, expanding its potential even in the field of archaeological research. Integrating archaeological data into BIM models has clear benefits but, due to the complexity of the involved elements, archaeological case studies can fit effectively into the BIM process only with the creation of semantic-aware libraries implementing dedicated objects. Cultural heritage can advantage of BIM-based knowledge management only integrating approaches and tools with different characteristics from those commonly used in BIM workflows. In the phase of the geometric modeling process, following that of the survey process and preparatory to the subsequent information modeling process, when the detected geometries are not easily traceable to libraries of pre-compiled objects, an alternative to the so-called "Scan to BIM" local modeling can be represented by algorithmic modeling. The paper, focusing on the geometric modelling phase of the HBIM process, presents first results and prospective tasks of an ongoing research project on the last architectural phase of the colonnade of a multilayered temple in the Antas valley in Sardinia (Italy), affected by imposing works of anastylosis and restoration.</p>

scholarly journals Some Notes on Maintaining Authenticity in the Presentation of Archaeological Sites in Bulgaria

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Kamenova ◽  
Lyudmil Vagalinski
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The One ◽  
Scientific Value

We present the challenges facing Bulgarian experts in finding the balance between preserving the authenticity of archaeological structures and their context, and turning them into a comprehensible and attractive visitor site. Thanks to European funding over the past ten years, a number of projects have been implemented in Bulgaria for conservation, restoration, exhibition and public presentation of archaeological heritage, where the main aim is to achieve a complete visitor product. The economic and social effect, on the one hand, has a positive impact as an inspiration for archaeological research and the popularisation of this type of cultural heritage, but has led to a compromise of the scientific value at some sites. We note some examples to illustrate the combined role of experts, participants and stakeholders in their 'reading' and 'translating' the archaeology – seeking to generate interest, clarify and convey the experience of 'genius loci'. The role of the state in the management of archaeological heritage is examined through its different governmental levels and interaction. The requirements imposed by legislation and practice are also observed. First, the development of the archaeological heritage conservation system in Bulgaria will be briefly reviewed, its current state of the processes, its actors and the interactions between them, the positive and the negative aspects, and, in more detail, the problems we face in preserving authenticity while turning the archaeological site into an attractive one. Then we focus on our main topic; the authenticity and the attractiveness of archaeological sites in Bulgaria.

Israeli love and its implications for heritage and archeological sites In Hebron governorate

2018 ◽  
Vol 226 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Dr.. Sami Mohammed Alqam
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Historical Legacy ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Military Orders ◽  
The Right ◽  
Israeli Occupation

     The heritage sites in Hebron Governorate in all its details represent a historical history connected to the past and the present, Reflecting the heritage of the Palestinian people and its originality and roots in its land, and gives a precise picture of the features of successive civilizations that ruled the region, However, this historical legacy is threatened by destruction due to the policy of the Israeli occupation authorities to confiscate, demolish or Judaize buildings so that the occupation authorities strive to loot the goods of the Palestinian people and obliterate, destroy or confiscate their cultural heritage, And all that indicates the right to his land and sanctities; in an attempt to falsify historical facts; As a result of this policy occurred Palestinian architecture in Hebron, As a component of the Palestinian culture in the range of targeting the occupation authorities; they have confiscated many of the Palestinian historical buildings, whether residential or religious or archaeological sites, issuing a series of military orders backed by the army and the Israeli police, and pasted biblical accounts of these buildings; As well as resorting to the policy of theft and forgery.

Cultural Heritage Attrition in Egypt

2020 ◽  
pp. 315-318
Author(s):  
Monica Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Total Loss ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Awareness ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
Over Time

This chapter is a call to archaeologists and museum curators to reflect upon their roles in the production of knowledge surrounding antiquities and to take more responsibility for historical awareness and appreciation in Egypt. Historical objects transform in significance over time and are in constant re-creation of identity, so we must keep pace with their contemporary relevance, and we should use that relevance to start a discourse on the construction of new identities in relation to cultural memories of the past through the contemporary interpretations of these objects in the daily life of different communities. People cannot appreciate what they do not know; if Egyptians do not have access to the knowledge of their ancient past, they will not understand the value of the significance of its material remains, and will continue to allow, through neglect, the total loss of archaeological sites to looting and commercial urbanization. In the end, this loss will result in a complete attrition of cultural heritage and historical memory that will further lead to a more diluted identity.

A four-tier approach to the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict

Antiquity ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (335) ◽  
pp. 166-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
The Past ◽  
A Value

This vitally important article sets out the obstacles and opportunities for the protection of archaeological sites and historic buildings in zones of armed conflict. Readers will not need to be told that modern munitions are devastating and sometimes wayward, nor that cultural heritage once destroyed cannot simply be rebuilt. The author makes a vivid case for the role of respect for the past in mitigating hostility and so winning the peace as well as aiding the victory, and guides us through the forest of players. Agencies so numerous, so obscure and so often ineffective might prompt the response ‘a plague on all your acronyms’. All the more important, then, that the author and his associates continue their campaign and are supported by everyone who believes that cultural property has a value that lies beyond sectional interests.

scholarly journals Solid As a Rock? An Ethnographical Study of the Management of Rock-carvings

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Anders Gustafsson ◽  
Håkan Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
Point Of Departure

This paper takes its point of departure in a critical and ethnographically directed discussion ofhow Swedish heritage management —in practiceconstructs, organises and presents the past (ke. , the cultural heritage) to the public at the rock-carvings in Tanum. This ethnographical approach is helpful when trying to move beyond the structures —and specific ways of viewing the world —that are a consequence of our own archaeological socialisation. Suddenly activities that, with an archaeological eye, seem to be completely normal, present themselves instead as peculiar examples of the culture ofcontemporary archaeology/heritage management. In this paper we present examples —derived from both the past and present —ofhow this specific culture approach handles and stages the rock-carvings in Tanum. It is stressed that, for various reasons and not least ethical and democratic ones, this culture and its rituals need to be examined even further from an ethnographical point of view

scholarly journals POTENTIAL OF OVERLOOKED INDUSTRY HERITAGE IN HOREHRONIE REGION IN SLOVAKIA AND ITS REGENERATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Veronika Aschenbrierová
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Job Opportunities

The territory of Slovakia is rich in places with an ironworks history, which formed important urban and economic centers in the past. The valuable urban-architectural settlements emerged due to favorable geographical conditions, availability of forest and water resources. Currently, these important historical spots find themselves in the regions suffering from lack of job opportunities and low level of life quality. The research work deals with one of the most important 19th century‘s Slovak ironworks, its urban and architectural values ​​in the setting, and regenerative activities involving development activities to preserve the constantly overlooked part of Horehronie‘s cultural heritage. This study aims to contribute to the knowledge about the ironwork complex, to present its current state and research, which has stimulated interest in the protection of so far degrading industrial heritage. The result of this work is to show potential of industrial heritage in regional development and tourism, which is an opportunity to strengthen the region identity, its competitiveness, as well as to the potential of industrial heritage in regional development and tourism, which is an opportunity to strengthen the region identity, its competitiveness, and improve the socio-economic conditions of its inhabitants.

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