INTEGRATING GEOPHYSICS AND GEOARCHAEOLOGY FOR A HERITAGE MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT IN WETLANDS:

AbstractThe application of digital technologies has greatly improved the efficiency of cultural heritage documentation and the diversity of heritage information. Yet the adequate incorporation of cultural, intangible, sensory or experimental elements of local heritage in the process of digital documentation, and the deepening of local community engagement, remain important issues in cultural heritage research. This paper examines the heritage landscape of tunpu people within the context of digital conservation efforts in China and the emergence of emotions studies as an evaluative tool. Using a range of data from the Ming-era village of Baojiatun in Guizhou Province, this paper tests an exploratory emotions-based approach and methodology, revealing shifting interpersonal relationships, experiential and praxiological engagement with the landscape, and emotional registers within tunpu culture and heritage management. The analysis articulates distinctive asset of emotional value at various scales and suggests that such approaches, applied within digital documentation contexts, can help researchers to identify multi-level heritage landscape values and their carriers. This methodology can provide more complete and dynamic inventories to guide digital survey and representation; and the emotions-based approach also supports the integration of disparate heritage aspects in a holistic understanding of the living landscape. Finally, the incorporation of community participation in the process of digital survey breaks down boundaries between experts and communities and leads to more culturally appropriate heritage records and representations.

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Tourism Industry is Leading the Digital Transformation of Cultural Heritage Management : Bibliometric Analysis Based on Web of Science Database

2020 Management Science Informatization and Economic Innovation Development Conference (MSIEID) ◽

10.1109/msieid52046.2020.00056 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Xiumei Zhou ◽

Cheng Zhang ◽

Zhuoqi Pan ◽

Peiling Wei

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Digital Transformation ◽

Heritage Management ◽

Cultural Heritage Management

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Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage Assessment and Monitoring: The Case Study of Alba Iulia

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13031406 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 1406 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cristian Moise ◽

Iulia Dana Negula ◽

Cristina Elena Mihalache ◽

Andi Mihai Lazar ◽

Andreea Luminita Dedulescu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Heritage Management ◽

Time Interval ◽

Urban Landscapes ◽

Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽

Heritage Site ◽

Depth Analysis ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

Historical Past

In recent times, satellite-based remote sensing has a growing role in archaeology and inherently in the cultural heritage management process. This paper demonstrates the potential and usefulness of satellite imagery for the documentation, mapping, monitoring, and in-depth analysis of cultural heritage and the archaeological sites located in urban landscapes. The study focuses on the assessment and monitoring of Alba Iulia, which is one of the Romanian cities with the richest historical past. Multitemporal analysis was performed to identify the land use/land cover changes that might contribute to an increased cultural heritage vulnerability to natural disasters. A special emphasis was dedicated to the assessment of the built-up area growth and consequently of the urbanization trend over a large time interval (30 years). Next, the urbanization and urban area expansion impact was further analyzed by concentrating on the urban heat island within Alba Iulia city and Alba Iulia Fortress (located in the center of the city). As temperature change represents a key element of climate change, the temperature trend within the same temporal framework and its impact on cultural heritage were determined. In the end, with regard to the cultural heritage condition assessment, the research was complemented with an assessment of the urban ground and individual building stability, using persistent scatterer interferometry. The results contribute to the detailed depiction of the cultural heritage site in such a manner that the site is monitored over an extensive timeframe, its current state of conservation is accurately determined, and the future trends can be identified. In conclusion, the present study offers reliable results regarding the main factors that might endanger the cultural heritage site as a basis for future preservation measures.

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Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci10030101 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 101

Author(s):

Natthakit Phetsuriya ◽

Tim Heath

Keyword(s):

Management Strategies ◽

Place Identity ◽

Heritage Management ◽

World Heritage Site ◽

Local People ◽

Cultural Dynamics ◽

Chiang Mai ◽

Urban Heritage ◽

Heritage Site ◽

Old City

Distinctiveness is a fundamental part of defining place identity. This paper aims to define the identity of place through the distinctiveness of the urban heritage of Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand. Chiang Mai Old City has unprecedented levels of diversity and a cultural dynamics related to its intangible and tangible urban heritage. Moreover, the city is in the important stage of being nominated as a new World Heritage Site of UNESCO, with the city’s distinctiveness being significant in supporting further heritage management strategies. The research presented in this paper mainly focuses on how local people interpret and understand the urban heritage identity of Chiang Mai Old City. This has been achieved through surveys of four hundred participants who live in the Old City and a two-way focus group with five participants in each group. The results provide seven aspects to describe the distinctiveness of Chiang Mai Old City. Moreover, the results can also be used to develop an assessment indicator for defining the distinctiveness of other cities through the engagement of local people.

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Eye-tracking support for architects, conservators, and museologists. Anastylosis as pretext for research and discussion

Heritage Science ◽

10.1186/s40494-021-00548-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Marta Rusnak

Keyword(s):

Eye Tracking ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Heritage Management ◽

Management Processes ◽

Historical Objects ◽

Conservation Projects ◽

Sustainable Conservation ◽

The Way

AbstractConservators, museologists, and architects make extremely complex decisions capable of affecting the way people perceive monuments. One might give this idea deeper consideration while pondering anastylosis. One of the things a designer should do when selecting a method of merging together parts of a damaged monument is answer the question whether the chosen method will facilitate the interest of onlookers in the presented object. In which case will the observers spend most of their time looking at the authentic relic fragments and distinguishing between the old and the new parts? The definitions in force do not explain how to approach this topic. By using eye-tracking research, we can learn how observers look at historical objects that have been reassembled again. By combining the observation of visual behaviours with a survey of people looking at such objects, it is possible to see how the process of classifying what is new and old actually works. This knowledge allows for more conscious approach to heritage management processes. In future, results of eye-tracking experiments should help experts plan sustainable conservation projects. Thanks to knowing the reactions of regular people, one will be able to establish conservation programmes in which the material preservation of a monument will reflect the way in which this object affects contemporary onlookers. Such an approach ought to result in real social and economic benefits.

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Sustainable Biocultural Heritage Management and Communication: The Case of Digital Narrative for UNESCO Marine World Heritage of Outstanding Universal Value

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13031449 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 1449

Author(s):

Clio Kenterelidou ◽

Fani Galatsopoulou

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

World Heritage ◽

Heritage Management ◽

Communication Strategy ◽

Ocean Literacy ◽

Heritage Site ◽

Outstanding Universal Value ◽

Biocultural Heritage ◽

Development Goals ◽

Digital Narrative

The paper addresses sustainability, heritage, management, and communication from UNESCO’s Marine World Heritage (MWH) perspective, analyzing its digital narrative footprint through social media. It aims to understand how MWH is conceptualized, managed, and communicated and whether it is framed with sustainability and biocultural values facilitating interactivity, engagement, and multimodal knowledge. Hence, a content analysis of the Instagram accounts of the MWH of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) sites and protected areas has been conducted. The study included evidence from their Instagram profile, posts, features, and reactions. The findings indicated the dearth of a management and communication strategy being shared among and across UNESCO’s MWH of OUV sites and protected areas, capturing the “lifeworld” and the “voice” of the marine heritage as unified. They also revealed that nature and human, and biological and socio-ecological ecosystems of MWH of OUV sites and protected areas are not interlinked in marine heritage management and communication featuring the whole and the entirety of the marine heritage site ecosystem. The lack of this expansion of meaning and engagement does not facilitate the shift of the route in the marine-scape, from discovery and being listed as World Heritage to human-nature interaction, diversity, dynamicity, and ocean literacy. The study contributes to setting the ground rules for strengthening marine heritage management and communication in light of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Ocean Literacy Decade (2021–2030).

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