scholarly journals A New Approach to the Concepts of Conservation to Identify and Evaluate Railway Heritage through Indicators

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-195
Author(s):  
Breno Albuquerque B. Borges
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Methodological Reflection ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThe wide railway universe, with its particular and peculiar characteristics, requires the implementation of criteria to improve the identification and conservation of cultural goods. Recently concepts of authenticity, integrity and cultural significance have been identified as fundamental in the selection of the cultural heritage of humanity. Although we find these concepts being analyzed in theory as independents, through a theoretical-methodological reflection, this PhD research argues that, in practice, they are interconnected, and therefore should be approached together. Following the contemporary theory of conservation, my doctoral research aims at contributing to the conservation of railways’ heritage using this new approach, by proposing new indicators as assessment tools so that conservation institutions will be able to identify railway goods as cultural heritage. The research uses the Railway Complex of Barreiro, in Portugal, as a case study.

Project for the Establishment of a National Museum in the drc and Korea’s New oda Strategy: The Contextualization of the drc’s History and Culture

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 408-442
Author(s):  
Kwang-Su Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
National Museum ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Selection Of

The Project for the Establishment of a National Museum in the drc, currently being carried out as a form of grant aid, is Korea’s first cultural oda project. The purpose of the project is for a newly constructed drc National Museum which will protect the cultural heritage of various ethnic groups, and to present their history in order to inspire national pride and integrate the nation. Furthermore, it is hoped that the project will aid the Congo perople in understanding their history correctly, and contribute to the historical and cultural development of their country. This case study can be used as a starting point for a more general understanding of African societies. It shows how this Project for the Establishment of a National Museum in the drc is different in nature than other previous oda projects, and asserts the importance and strategical selection of cultural oda projects.

scholarly journals Engaging in design activism and communicating cultural significance through contemporary heritage storytelling

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberley Wilson ◽  
Cheryl Desha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Action Research Approach

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of contemporary storytelling in preserving built heritage, as a mechanism for extending the useful life of buildings. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopted a qualitative action research approach to consider the role of storytelling. A creative, multi-method approach (i.e. a “Brisbane Art Deco” publication and associated marketing campaign) was used as a case study to explore the contours of such an approach and its efficacy in engaging the community. Findings This paper highlights the potential of contemporary approaches to heritage storytelling, including utilising digital technologies, to engage a diverse range of people that may not have otherwise participated. The authors propose the value of taking a creative and whole-of-society approach – such as that used in this case study – to heritage storytelling. Research limitations/implications The case study discussed provides a phenomenological insight into one version of “contemporary heritage storytelling”. The findings have immediate implications for prioritising research into storytelling for the preservation of built heritage. Practical implications The case study demonstrates opportunities for community engagement through storytelling and highlights potential strategies to effectively contribute to a greater societal value of cultural heritage. Originality/value This research contributes to theory and practice around the management of cultural heritage, and highlights the usefulness of employing such a strategy to reach and engage a broader audience.

scholarly journals Decay Assessment of Stone-Built Cultural Heritage: The Case Study of the Cosenza Cathedral Façade (South Calabria, Italy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 3925
Author(s):  
Antonio Donato ◽  
Luciana Randazzo ◽  
Michela Ricca ◽  
Natalia Rovella ◽  
Matteo Collina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Damage Indices ◽  
Relative Damage ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Selection Of

This study aims to assess the different decay phenomena affecting the Cosenza Cathedral façade (Calabria, South Italy) through the evaluation of the relative damage indices. For this goal, a multidisciplinary approach was applied exploiting both nondestructive and microdestructive techniques. Such a combination enabled proposing an intervention priority scale that can be helpful to institutions when planning a prompt restoration intervention. The results suggest the efficiency of this approach to obtain a multidisciplinary diagnostic and conservation system for the management and valorization of the Cultural Heritage also in terms of monitoring, maintenance, and selection of the most suitable restoration procedures over time.

scholarly journals Corralling Conflict: The Politics of Australian Federal Heritage Legislation Since the 1970s

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ashton ◽  
Jennifer Cornwall
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
First Century ◽  
Party Leader ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Heritage Legislation ◽  
New Generation

In August 1968, conservative National Party leader Joh Bjelke-Petersen became Premier of the state of Queensland. He referred to conservationists as these 'subversives, these friends of the dirt'. A generation later, few if any Australian politicians would have publicly attacked the environment and its supporters for fear of electoral damage. After years of major environmental battles which on occasion determined the fate of some governments, the environment had crashed through into mainstream politics. Natural and cultural heritage was firmly on local, state and federal political agendas. Heritage in Australia was also, by the 1990s, a substantial, multifaceted industry. Cultural and eco tourism generated a significant proportion of the country's gross domestic product. Along side and partially in response to industry, a heritage bureaucracy had developed. The corporatisation of heritage saw the rise in the 1980s and 1990s of a new generation of heritage professionals who attempted with varying degrees of success to place heritage assessment on a quasi-scientific footing. Perhaps their greatest achievement, in terms of cultural heritage, was gaining recognition in the 1990s for the vital importance of intangible heritage. Intangible heritage, or social value, inscribes objects and sites that cannot speak for themselves with cultural and social meanings. Since the 1980s, some more radical practitioners had been working to counteract the dominance of tangible remains of the past in determining cultural significance. This victory over empiricism, however, was in some respects to prove pyrrhic. Heritage conservation, as with some other heritage practices, was by the turn of the twenty-first century institutionally confined in its ability to represent conflict. This article charts the incorporation and corralling of heritage work at the federal level in Australia through a case study of the rise and fall of the Australian Heritage Commission.

scholarly journals Engineering eHeritage—A New Approach for Study of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Case Study: The Analysis of the Noise Produced by the Dacian Dracon

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Butnariu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Specific Skill ◽  
Structured Approach

Preserving the past is an important task of the current generation because of the rapid changes that influence our society. There are certain objects or traditions that make us feel as though we are part of something and—a country, a way of life. The term ‘cultural heritage’ has seen many changes over the last decades and can be evaluated from a tangible or intangible point of view. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the recognition and protection of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has seen an increased importance. ICH includes goods that can express the idiosyncrasy of certain groups, represent a specific skill, or tradition. This paper presents a working methodology on a structured approach to ICH elements, as well as a case study of such an object. At the same time, this paper proposes a new method of artifacts research, an approach that brings, in addition to engineering, expertise from several fields: Mechanics, construction, material resistance, flow of fluids, heat transfer, ICT, and virtual reality.

scholarly journals MULTI-CRITERIA MODEL BASED ON LINGUISTIC NEUTROSOPHIC NUMBERS: THE SELECTION OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Goran Ćirović ◽  
Dragan Pamučar ◽  
Nataša Popović-Miletić
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Complex Decision Making ◽  
Complex Decision ◽  
Linguistic Neutrosophic Numbers ◽  
Selection Of

The paper presents a new approach in treating uncertainty and subjectivity in the decision making process based on the modification of Multi Attributive Border Approximation area Comparison (MABAC) and an Objective-Subjective (OS) model by applying linguistic neutrosophic numbers (LNN) instead of traditional numerical values. By integrating these models with linguistic neutrosophic numbers it was shown that it is possible to a significant extent to eliminate subjective qualitative assessments and assumptions by decision makers in complex decision-making conditions. On this basis, a new hybrid LNN OS-MABAC model was formed. This model was tested and validated on a case-study of the selection of optimal unmanned aircraft intended to combat forest fires.

scholarly journals Spitting Image. Press photographs and memes as digital cultural heritage in Netarkivet

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer ◽  
Eld Zierau
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
Initial Appearance ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The Many ◽  
Web Archive ◽  
Selection Of

Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer and Eld Zierau: Spitting Image. Press photographs and memes as digital cultural heritage in Netarkivet This article deals with the challenges that confront libraries in their efforts to collect and make available national cultural heritage to researchers in today’s hybrid media society. The authors illustrate their arguments with a case study: Sigrid Nygaard’s photograph of a man spitting down on to immigrants from its initial appearance in a Tweet of 2015 to its reproduction in the national and international and social media, a field which also includes the many memes it engendered. The authors describe how the photograph became part of a heated debate on immigration policies and media ethics and suggest different academic fields in which the material can be studied, such as political science and media studies. They investigate a selection of sources and describe how these were collected by Netarkivet as part of the library’s obligation under the Legal Deposit Act, thereby providing insights into the different methods of finding and collecting material from the internet. Finally they argue that commonly known referencing practices are insufficient when it comes to web archive materials in general and point to a newly emerging referencing practice using so-called Persistent Web IDentifiers (PWID), which enable researchers to create precise and persistent references to web archive resources. The research was carried out to ensure that such materials would be saved and would continue to be available to researchers, to investigate and contribute to new collection methods, to cite digital cultural heritage, and to inform researchers about Netarkivet’s resources and ways in which one can work academically with the materials the archive contains.

scholarly journals THE GLOBALIZATION IMPACT ON CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: A CASE STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-223
Author(s):  
Cristian Ciurea ◽  
Florin Gheorghe Filip
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
New Business ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
New Business Models

The influences of multiculturalism, globalization and technological revolution on art galleries, libraries, archives, museums have led to major changes in the way they select, preserve, promote and valorize their cultural goods. The digitization of cultural heritage collections and the evolution of information technologies (cloud computing, mobile devices, Internet of things) have determined the progress of virtual exhibitions as a means of promoting and valorizing the cultural heritage physical objects. New business models have been developed to harness the cultural heritage of libraries and museums in the context of globalization and technological revolution and the premises for the development of a new category of entrepreneurs have been created. Studies have been conducted to find the ways to increase the number of visitors of cultural institutions with the help of promoting tools, such as virtual exhibitions and dedicated mobile applications. The paper presents several methodological aspects and conclusions based on a practical example.

scholarly journals Obligations to Objects

Museum Worlds ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-94
Author(s):  
Brit Asmussen ◽  
Lester Michael Hill ◽  
Sean Ulm ◽  
Chantal Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
State Government ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Dam Construction ◽  
Queensland Museum ◽  
Museum Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACTThis article discusses changing obligations toward objects from an archaeological site held by the Queensland Museum, through a long-term, 40-year case study. Between 1971 and 1972 a selection of 92 stone blocks weighing up to 5 tons containing Aboriginal engravings were cut out of the site and distributed to multiple locations across Queensland by the State Government under the provisions of the then Aboriginal Relics Preservation Act 1967. The site was subsequently flooded following dam construction and the removed blocks became part of the Queensland Museum’s collection. This article chronicles the history of the site and its “salvage,” the consequences of fragmentation of the site for community and institutions, the creation of 92 museum objects, the transformation from immobile to mobile cultural heritage, and community-led requests for their repatriation back to country.

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