Monuments and Commemorations: A Consideration

A Hypermedia Afghan Sites and Monuments Database

Cultural heritage management is an excellent application domain for geographical hypermedia information systems. Many people with different tasks and levels of profession like fieldworkers, researchers, project and campaign officers, cultural bureaucrats etc. collaboratively producing and consuming different media like photographs, video, drawings, books, etc. must deal with exact geographic in...

Survey Monuments and the Law

T h i s p r es en t a t i o n e xa m i n es s u r v e y m on u m e n t s in t h e c o n t e x t o f o u r l e ga l s y s t e m . I t b e g i n s by e s ta b l i s h in g f u n da m e n ta l t e r mi n o l o gy a n d c o n c e p ts t ha t h a ve b e e n m is u n d er s t o o d o r m is a p p l i e d b y s ur v e y o rs . T h e r e l a t i o ns h i p be t w e e n m o n u m e n ts a n d la n d t i...

Modern Architecture and Ancient Monuments

Monuments to Academic Carelessness

In 1942, Katherine Frost Bruner published an article titled ‘‘Of psychological writing: Being some valedictory remarks on style.’’ It was published in Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, the journal for which she served as editorial assistant between 1937 and 1941. Her collection of advice to writing scholars has been widely quoted, including by several editions of The Publication Manual...

Biodeterioration of Stone Monuments a Worldwide Issue

The biodegradation is a general action strictly linked in the presence of active organisms, and this is not only unavoidable but it represents a fundamental process of the Biosphere. When this process is acting on « valuable » objects, is named as Biodeterioration. The consequences surely produce a worse condition, and this process is particularly unfavourable when the object belongs to the Cul...