Military Necessity within the Framework for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Armed Conflicts

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-151
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Military Necessity ◽  
Protection Of Cultural Heritage

The Human Dimension of the Protection of the Cultural Heritage from Destruction during Armed Conflicts

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 205-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berenika Drazewska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Community ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Increasing Risk ◽  
Protection Of Cultural Heritage

Abstract:The concept of the “cultural heritage of all humankind” is often summarily dismissed by scholars, possibly due to the aura of unscholarly idealism it appears to emanate. However, it has long been claimed that the special status of objects of cultural, historical, or religious value is a consequence of their importance to the whole humanity rather than their economic or aesthetic value. Global outrage provoked by destruction of unique symbols of our shared past is proof that such claims are not unfounded. Considering that cultural heritage faces increasing risk of intentional destruction for ideological reasons, and the discriminatory intent inherent in such devastations poses a threat to the entire international community, it is opportune to initiate a discussion on the adequacy of the existing legal mechanisms for the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflicts and the perspectives it offers to address these challenges in a comprehensive and informed manner.

Using ISO and Semantic Web standard for building a multilingual terminology e-Dictionary: A use case of Chinese ceramic vases

2021 ◽  
pp. 016555152110221
Author(s):  
Tong Wei ◽  
Christophe Roche ◽  
Maria Papadopoulou ◽  
Yangli Jia
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Ming And Qing Dynasties ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Digital Protection ◽  
Protection Of Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Terminology is a tool for the dissemination and communication of cultural heritage. The lack of clearly identified terminologies is an obstacle to communication and knowledge sharing. Especially, for experts with different languages, it is difficult to understand what the term refers to only through terms. Our work aims to respond to this issue by implementing practices drawn from the Semantic Web and ISO Terminology standards (ISO 704 and ISO 1087-1) and more particularly, by building in a W3C format ontology as knowledge infrastructure to construct a multilingual terminology e-Dictionary. The Chinese ceramic vases of the Ming and Qing dynasties are the application cases of our work. The method of building ontology is the ‘term-and-characteristic guided method’, which follows the ISO principles of Terminology. The main result of this work is an online terminology e-Dictionary. The terminology e-Dictionary could help archaeologists communicate and understand the concepts denoted by terms in different languages and provide a new perspective based on ontology for the digital protection of cultural heritage. The e-Dictionary was published at http://www.dh.ketrc.com/e-dictionary.html .

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