Sharing heritage? Politics and territoriality in UNESCO’s heritage lists

Sharing Rural Heritage with Public Situated Displays

The Wray Photo Display was deployed in a small rural community for over three years, where it collected a large number of photos relating to the community‘s history. In this paper we summarise the project and explore other ways in which photographic content that supports the community‘s heritage might be presented. Introduction Our work has focused on the use of public, situated digital display...

war heritage

as an important event, each war has a lasting effect on people's life and language for decades. some war consequences are in direct relation with end result (winning or losing) of the war and some others are the aftermath of the war itself. this essay discusses two points about the period following the war, considering iran-iraq war. first, death becomes a routine. it will be internalized ...

The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai

The AstroBID: Preserving and Sharing the Italian Astronomical Heritage

The cultural heritage of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), made of rare and modern Books, Instruments and archival Documents, the AstroBID, marks the milestones in the history of astronomy in Italy. INAF, in collaboration with the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Bologna, has developed a project to preserve, digitize, and valorize its patrimony by creating ...

Knowledge Sharing in a Cultural Heritage Context: an Exploratory Study

Once discovered, an archaeological find starts some sort of new "life-cycle", throughout which it will cross several events, sometimes repeatedly. Each find brings with it a lot of information (concerning its nature and history). Also each event it will cross (restoration, study, exhibition etc) generates a lot of additional information. All the information gathered are useful, and often crucia...