scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF CONSERVATION EXPERIENCE OF HERITAGE OBJECTS IN LITHUANIA (THE CURONIAN SPIT) AND NORWAY (THE VEGA ARCHIPELAGO) / LIETUVOS (KURŠIŲ NERIJA) IR VEGA SALYNO (NORVEGIJA) PAVELDO OBJEKTŲ APSAUGOS PATIRTIES ANALIZĖ

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-309
Author(s):  
Nijolė Piekienė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
The State ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Curonian Spit ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Management And Development

The Curonian Spit (Lithuania) and Vega Archipelago (Norway) are objects on the UNESCO World Heritage List because of their special kind of landscapes that have been formed not without human intervention. Landscapes created by nature itself or with human help are exceptional works which, as determined by the legal acts in regulation of these processes, have to be referred to as objects of cultural heritage. The cultural heritage must be protected, exhibited and viewed as objects of science and cognition. Lithuania and Norway have different conditions formed for identification, conservation and protection of these works, but both countries have recognized that protection of cultural heritage, passing it on for future generations is the duty of the state. Prospects of heritage management and development, and exchange of experience should be the top priorities for action in Lithuania. Kuršių nerija (Lietuva) ir Vega salynas (Norvegija) į Pasaulio paveldo vietovių sąrašą įrašytos dėl savo išskirtinių kraštovaizdžių, kurie suformuoti ne be žmogaus įsikišimo. Tai, ką sukūrė gamta, žmogus ar gamta kartu su žmogumi, yra išskirtiniai kūriniai, kuriuos, kaip nustato šiuos procesus reglamentuojantys teisės aktai, nurodoma vadinti kultūros paveldo objektais. Kultūros paveldą būtina saugoti, eksponuoti, vertinti kaip mokslo ir pažinimo objektus. Lietuvoje ir Norvegijoje susiklosčiusios skirtingos sąlygos šių kūrinių identifikavimo, išsaugojimo ar globos srityse, tačiau abiejose šalyse pripažįstama, kad kultūros paveldo apsauga, perdavimas ateinančioms kartoms yra tos valstybės pareiga. Paveldo tvarkybos ir vystymo perspektyvos, keičiantis patirtimi, turi būti Lietuvos prioritetinė veiklos sritis.

scholarly journals , Tourism and the UN Sustainable Development : The Case of Croatia

2021 ◽  
pp. 341-358
Author(s):  
Željka Kordej-De Villa ◽  
Ivan Šulc
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
World Heritage List

AbstractThe chapter analyses the quality of managing cultural heritage sites in Croatia, particularly those inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List, which are under growing pressure of overtourism. The analysis was performed by using qualitative and quantitative data on visitors of the UNESCO heritage and the most important impacts of tourism on destination areas, compared to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused on tourism and heritage. The study investigates the state of safeguarding, protecting and valorizing cultural heritage in relevant documents and in practice, focusing on Dubrovnik as a case study area. The analysis revealed the insufficient plans for managing UNESCO World Heritage Sites in relevant documents and in the field, as well as lack of monitoring of tourism impacts. The selected cases in Croatia confirmed that the most common way for heritage valorization is within the framework of tourism (McKercher and du Cros, Cultural tourism. The partnership between tourism and cultural heritage management, Routledge, New York/London, 2009), where heritage is most often associated with sustainable tourism. However, desirable regenerative tourism, that repairs the harm that has already been done, is still far from the present situation and it will require much effort in its planning, designing tools for its implementation and its management to achieve it in the near future.

scholarly journals Prefacio II

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Nicola Masini
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Continuous Growth ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
World Heritage List

Awareness of the importance of preserving and transmitting cultural heritage to future generations has been growing enormously over the last two decades.  An indicator of this is the continuous growth in the number of cultural heritage sites and monuments inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list, which passed from 551 in 1987 to 1054 in 2016. Furthermore, the gap that once divided Europe and Northern America from other countries in terms of protection policies, development of practices and procedures for the restoration has been reduced. However, in the last two decades the number of World Heritage sites in danger strongly increased, passing from 10 in 1987 to 37 in 2016.

Cultural Heritage and Digitalization in City Branding

2022 ◽  
pp. 467-483
Author(s):  
Oya Yildirim ◽  
A. Celil Çakici
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Fundamental Feature ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In today's competitive global environment, cities are striving to stand out and be attractive to investors, visitors, and residents. City branding is an important tool to differentiate the city from its competitors and to be preferred by visitors. Every city has its own characteristics resulting from its historical development, the influence of its geography, and its social, cultural, and economic past. Therefore, the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of cities is vital for their promotion and branding. This study aims to show the importance of their cultural heritage, which is the most fundamental feature to differentiate themselves from their competitors in city branding. It is emphasized that the cultural events organized in cities or the assets specific to cities, most of which are on the UNESCO World Heritage List, have a significant impact on city branding. In addition, the chapter explains the impact of digitalization, which is one of the most important developments of our time, on city branding and cultural heritage.

scholarly journals INCREASING AWARENESS FOR URBAN CULTURAL HERITAGE BASED ON 3D NARRATIVE SYSTEM

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W10 ◽  
pp. 215-221
Author(s):  
B. Wang ◽  
G. Z. Dane ◽  
B. de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
3D City Models ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
Narrative Format ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
City Models

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> As UNESCO World Heritage Center defined, cultural heritage is legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Recently, many advanced technologies such as virtual environment and narrative platform, have been applied in improving public awareness for cultural heritage to preserve historical sites. However, these tools have their own limitations. In order to have a powerful system, these technologies should be integrated. Therefore, this study describes the need and possible methodology for a new 3D narrative system. This system contains 2D maps, 3D city models and narrative format. Tourists and locals can use it as a guide to view the cultural heritages and view and insert their narratives during their visits. Another usage can be before going there and after visiting they can share their own experience and stories to others. On one hand, they can have a deeper understanding of cultural heritages, on the other hand, they can incorporate their cultural heritage narratives for others to explore these historical sites. In this way, more people will have an interest in these heritages, and the awareness for preserving them will be improved.</p>

scholarly journals Avoiding the Pestilence of the State: Some Thoughts on Niche Construction, Heritage, and Sacred Waterworks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wengrow
Keyword(s):  
Niche Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Rice Farmers ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Traditional Irrigation ◽  
The Relationship

The egalitarian character of traditional irrigation ( subak ) systems in Bali has been widely documented and discussed by anthropologists, historians, and archaeologists. In a recent study, Stephen Lansing and Karyn Fox considered how the principles of niche construction theory might help to understand the genesis of these systems, as well as certain of their institutional characteristics. Here I discuss how this approach might be extended, to include the relationship between subak systems and the hierarchical organization of the Balinese state, within which they exist. Just as the logistics of subak irrigation work to maintain a symbiosis between rice farmers and the non-human predators (e.g. crop-pests) which surround them, so the ritual elaboration of the agrarian calendar works as a kind of cultural camouflage against the parasitical interests of the state. In theory, these ecological and institutional dimensions of subak may seem to pertain to quite separate spheres of Balinese life. In practice, I suggest, they are intertwined aspects of a single system, which allowed the subak to survive from their origins in the 11 th century AD, down to their recent inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

scholarly journals Problems of underwater cultural heritage research in the context of the Baltic Sea drainage basin ecology

2021 ◽  
Vol 291 ◽  
pp. 02020
Author(s):  
Babek Asadov ◽  
Alexander Baranov ◽  
Sofiia Baranova ◽  
Anastasiia Bobrova ◽  
Inga Philippova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Ecological Condition ◽  
Underwater Cultural Heritage ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The Status ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Baltic Sea Drainage Basin ◽  
The Baltic

The article considers key issues of the underwater cultural heritage and the ways to reveal investigate and preserve it. Due to the lack of knowledge of the problem, the authors have developed a method that allows detecting the potential of the object in order to obtain the status of underwater cultural heritage in the future. These eventual objects are based on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Baltic Drainage Sea is on the top of this List by the total number of these sites. The authors paid great attention to mark the wreck influence on ecological condition of the sea and they noticed the need of environmental monitoring. As a solution of some issues of preserving underwater cultural heritage. The term “ecology of underwater heritage” was proposed, as well as examples of international cooperation on the integration of environmental and archaeological underwater research.

Conservation and Heritage As Creative Processes of Future-Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-290
Author(s):  
Cornelius Holtorf
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Conservation Ethics ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come

AbstractAccording to the logic of the conservation ethics, the heritage sector has the duty to conserve cultural heritage because it has inherent value and constitutes a non-renewable resource that once destroyed cannot be substituted and, therefore, must be preserved for the benefit of future generations. In this article, I argue, however, that the cultural heritage of the past is not a comprehensive legacy that theoretically, at any point, might have been considered complete but, rather, that it can be understood as frequently updated manifestations of changing perceptions of the past over time. The most important question for conservation and heritage management, thus, is not how much heritage of any one period may or may not survive intact into the future but, instead, which heritage, as our legacy to the generations to come, will benefit future societies the most. In particular, I am calling for more research into the possible significance of heritage in addressing some of the social consequences of climate change.

Integrating Big Data to Smart Destination Heritage Management

2022 ◽  
pp. 411-429
Author(s):  
Kubra Ozer ◽  
Mehmet Altug Sahin ◽  
Gurel Cetin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Solution Methods

New technological requirements and needs of today's world are forcing cities to transform into smart cities and smart destinations in tourism cases. Smart destinations are focused on enhancing the tourist experience while also supporting the decision-making process, sustaining effective usage of resources, and maintaining sustainability. Big data has started to act as a reliable resource that assists these processes and offers alternative solution methods. Improvements in the usage of big data within the framework of smart destination management systems will also provide new insights and understandings about heritage sites and their management. Istanbul and the Sultanahmet region, which were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, form the main domain of this chapter. This research aims to reveal any significant differences between Istanbul Wi-Fi data, Sultanahmet Wi-Fi data, and Istanbul Arrivals data. Kruskal-Wallis Test was conducted for comparing these data sets for 28 countries, and recommendations are presented.

scholarly journals State Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Exploring its Historical and Cultural Heritage

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
O. N. Shelegina ◽  
S. K. Zhetpysbaev
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
State Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Strategic Project ◽  
The City

The article addresses the main aspects of Kazakhstan’s state policy relating to historical and cultural heritage, namely, with respect to a gradual socially significant transition from heritage actualization to exploration, which represents a new trend in research. At present, the country’s historical and cultural heritage includes over 25,000 immovable historical, archeological, and architectural monuments, as well as monumental art sites. Based on the analysis of the representative historiographical resources and the state periodical press materials, a quantity and quality assessment was carried out regarding the outcomes of independent Kazakhstan’s policy on exploring its heritage at both domestic and international level. The “Cultural Heritage” project launched in 2004 is a unique national strategic project that portrays the state approach to culture and the exploration of cultural heritage. State program “The Sacral Geography of Kazakhstan” also plays an important sociocultural role. In the south Kazakhstan region alone historical and cultural objects have all been registered, including a unique cultural and historical megalopolis – the city of Almaty with a huge tsar necropolis. The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. A. Nazarbaev describes this policy as one of the cornerstones of national identity preservation. The mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan alongside the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, collaboration with foreign countries, and a contribution to the development of an ambitious international project “The Great Silk Road” also play an important role in preserving and actualizing its cultural heritage. The state policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan of exploring its historical and cultural heritage should be recognized as rewarding and effective in terms of the preservation and actualization of cultural heritage, national consolidation, and Kazakhstan’s integration into the global cultural space.

scholarly journals BENCHMARK OF METRIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECONSTRUCTION FOR HISTORICAL FILM FOOTAGE

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W11 ◽  
pp. 443-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Condorelli ◽  
F. Rinaudo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Camera Motion ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Historical Film ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Historical Films ◽  
Source Structure

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Quality assessment in photogrammetric processing is fundamental to obtain metric information and to reconstruct 3D models of Cultural Heritage, especially when it has been lost or changed over time. The determination of metric precision is technically challenging when dealing with historical films and videos that in many cases represent the only remaining traces of this heritage, which is useful for architectural, archaeological and restoration studies. This paper examines the suitability of existing photogrammetric software to evaluate the maximum possible metric accuracy for processing videos shot with fixed camera motions. In order to evaluate the metric quality obtained processing historical film footage with photogrammetric techniques, a benchmark was created on a new video dataset with the aim of reproducing the camera motions in which old video were shot. Three different camera motions were considered: Up/Down Motion-Tilting, Left/Right Motion-Trucking and Rolling Motion-Panning. The methodology was experimented on Valentino Castle in Turin, a monument inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Data were processed with the implementation of open source Structure-from-Motion algorithms and the results were analysed for the evaluation of metric quality. Results show the different maximum precision assessments according to the different typologies of camera motion. This research provides fundamental support to historical studies on Cultural Heritage, creating a sharing standard with zero-cost data and tools useful for both geomatics and restorers.</p>

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