scholarly journals ICT and Cultural Heritage in Greece and Cyprus: A critical overview of current postgraduate curricula

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Despina Catapoti ◽  
Polina Nikolaou ◽  
Despina Andriopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Recording Analysis ◽  
Management Project ◽  
Programs Of Study ◽  
Critical Overview

One of the most fundamental shifts in the cultural heritage sector, is to be found at the intersection established over the past years, between heritage management and the rapidly growing field of digital technology. In the wake of these developments, the striking majority of professionals in the heritage sector are faced with the challenge of integrating ICT technologies in various workings, functions and purposes of their field (i.e. preservation, restoration, recording, analysis, interpretation, publication, exhibition). At the same time, digital technologies are becoming an integral part of cultural management (project management, event management, collection management etc) but also of cultural communication and public outreach. The analytical significance of this project stems mainly from the fact that it constitutes the first systematized attempt to chart (both quantitatively and qualitatively) all postgraduate programs of study on cultural heritage that are available at present across Departments and Universities in both Greece and Cyprus. The combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis of heritage studies curricula in both countriesalso provides us with an elaborated and refined picture of the professional skills promoted by different academic curricula as regards ICT skills and their implementation in heritage studies. As such, this mapping enterprise can be a useful tool for analytically appreciating the connection between curriculum content andjob requirements and by extension, act as a starting point for creating a sustainable model of synergy between heritage studies and ICT in Greece and Cyprus for the next decades.

An Introduction to the Stone Age Archaeology of the Polihali Dam Area, Mokhotlong District, Lesotho

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Tim Forssman ◽  
Matt Lotter ◽  
John Parkington ◽  
Jeremy Hollmann ◽  
Jessica Angel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Eastern Highlands

Abstract Much of Lesotho’s cultural heritage has been studied as a result of dam developments. Where dams have been built, heritage studies have provided crucial data for improving our understanding of local archaeological sequences. Ahead of the construction of the Lesotho Highland Development Authority’s (LHDA) new Polihali Dam in Lesotho’s Mokhotlong District and following the recommendations of a heritage assessment (CES 2014), a large-scale five-year cultural heritage management program was launched in 2018 that seeks to excavate and mitigate a number of heritage sites. Here, we provide the background to one of southern Africa’s largest heritage mitigation contracts by contextualising the current research program. We then present the archaeology of Lesotho’s eastern highlands basalt region using data collected during the inception phase of this program. The findings challenge current preconceived notions about the sparsity of archaeological remains for this region.

How Cultural Heritage Studies Based on Dendrochronology Can Be Improved through Two-Way Communication

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1047
Author(s):  
Johannes Edvardsson ◽  
Gunnar Almevik ◽  
Linda Lindblad ◽  
Hans Linderson ◽  
Karl-Magnus Melin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
End Users ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Current Standard ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Heritage Studies

A significant part of our cultural heritage consists of wood. Research on historical wooden structures and artefacts thereby provides knowledge of people’s daily lives and the society in which they lived. Dendrochronology is a well-established dating method of wood that can also provide valuable knowledge about climate dynamics, environmental changes, silviculture, and cultural transformations. However, dendrochronology comes with some limitations that end users in cultural heritage sciences must be aware of, otherwise their surveys may not be ultimately performed. We have drawn attention to studies in which dendrochronological results have been misinterpreted, over-interpreted, or not fully utilized. On the other hand, a rigorous dendrochronological survey may not respond to the request of information in practice. To bridge this rigour-relevance gap, this article has considered and reviewed both the dendrochronology’s science-perspective and the practitioner’s and end user’s call for context appropriate studies. The material for this study consists of (i) interviews with researchers in dendrochronology and end users represented by cultural heritage researchers with focus on building conservation and building history in Sweden, and (ii) a review of dendrochronological reports and the literature where results from the reports have been interpreted. From these sources we can conclude that a continuous two-way communication between the dendrochronologists and end users often would have resulted in improved cultural heritage studies. The communication can take place in several steps. Firstly, the design of a sampling plan, which according to the current standard for sampling of cultural materials often is required, is an excellent common starting point for communication. Secondly, the survey reports could be developed with a more extensive general outline of the method and guidance in how to interpret the results. Thirdly, the potential contribution from dendrochronology is often underused, foreseeing historical information on local climate, silviculture, and choice of quality of the wooden resource, as the focus most often is the chronological dating. Finally, the interpretation of the results should consider all the available sources where dendrochronology is one stake for a conciliant conclusion.

Cultural Heritage Management: Project Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 3012-3021
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Altschul ◽  
Teresita Majewski ◽  
Richard Ciolek-Torello
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Management Project

Acknowledgments

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-50
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
The People ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Cooperative Venture

The editors would simply like to conclude our second issue, Archaeology and Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Management, by thanking the people who were instrumental in putting this issue together. Special thanks go to Paul Shackel and David Gadsby of the University of Maryland for recruiting experts in cultural heritage research and practice among their colleagues, and for prodding them along as needed. We also offer sincere thanks to Antoinette Jackson of the University of South Florida for providing the same kind of assistance with her students. This was truly a cooperative venture between two universities that are dedicated to promoting cooperation between archaeologists and cultural anthropologists in the protection and management of cultural resources and, as Cheryl White points out in her article, ultimately protecting people whose cultural integrity and lives are threatened. At a time when anthropology is increasingly threatened by division and fragmentation, it is nice to be reminded that ethnographers and archaeologists can come together to work on both scholarly, humanitarian and practical issues of great importance. Thirdly, we offer special thanks to Erve Chambers for providing an excellent overview of cultural heritage studies in his introduction to this issue. As always, thanks to Neil Hann for keeping us on track, dealing with last minute substitutions and getting everything to fit together.

scholarly journals The Disputed Responsibility for the Cultural Heritage: The Kvarnbacken Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-130
Author(s):  
Göran Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Contract Archaeology ◽  
National Memory ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

This article deals with the conflict about the responsibility for costs in connection with contract archaeology. Today, according to Swedish legislation, whoever wants to disturb, move, or destroy an antiquity must pay for the archaeological excavation. The starting point for the article is an empirical case from the province of Östergötland to which an actor perspective is applied. The case is also placed in a context to do with tendencies towards change and the discussion in recent years concerning the cultural heritage and national memory policy. By showing features of continuity and discontinuity in cultural heritage management the author seeks to reveal and reflect on the dilemmas surrounding the legislation, which dates back to the 1940s and is questioned by many.

Cultural Heritage Management: Project Management

2014 ◽  
pp. 1951-1960
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Altschul ◽  
Teresita Majewski ◽  
Richard Ciolek-Torello
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Management Project

scholarly journals Towards new commons and sharing interests in the landscape, integrating natural and cultural heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Bas Pedroli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
New Commons

Heritage values represent a common good, contributing to societal identity. Landscape is a topical issue because it represents character and identity in both a spatial and a temporal dimension, uniting natural and cultural aspects of heritage at the same time. Especially in Europe, practically all natural heritage can be considered cultural heritage as well, since it is through human action that Europe’s biodiversity has evolved. Heritage perspectives on landscape and nature underline time depth, human agency and social value within landscape. Its cultural starting point does not marginalise nature, but places nature within cultural filters, thus highlighting the reciprocity of nature and culture in the creation of sustainable places. Today’s changing society is transitioning towards new forms of governance dominated by collaboration and continuously shifting networks or actors. Reported examples of cultural landscapes explore heritage management approaches that benefit from combining natural and cultural heritage perceptions. In this context, commonly accessible heritage can bring people together in joint efforts to use the inherited landscape as a shared and cherished resource rather than a conserved and regulated landscape.

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