Introduction: Heritage-Outside-In

Preserving Cultural Heritage: Introduction

When Library Trends devoted its first issue to preservation (Tauber, 1956), the state-of-the-art term was conservation, and the articles dealt with binding, treatments, stack maintenance, and “discarding” (weeding). The focus was almost entirely on libraries, except for an article by Hummel and Barrow on treatment for library and archival material (Hummel & Barrow, 1956). The next Library Trend...

Personalized Cultural Heritage Experience outside the Museum - Connecting the Outside World to the Museum Experience

We propose a new area to focus upon as a research challenge: How to use personalized technology to connect our cultural heritage experiences to our "daily" lives. In particular we want to connect the visitor's museum experiences with outside relevant mobile cultural heritage experiences. We begin to examine what processes and technologies will be necessary to accomplish the when, what and how o...

Introduction to Statistical Physics outside Physics

We review the possibilities and difficulties for statistical physicists if they apply their methods to biology, economics, or sociology. WARNING: I report opinions, not simulations.

Introduction to Michotte’s heritage in perception and cognition research

Several decades after Michotte’s work was published, it continues to inspire current research in perception, cognition, and beyond. In this special issue we pay tribute to this heritage with a collection of empirical and theoretical papers on amodal completion and the perception of causality, two areas of research within which Michotte’s work and ideas have had a lasting inXuence. As a backgrou...

Ideology, Ritual Practice, and Cultural Heritage: an Introduction