The appropriation of the carioca intangible cultural heritage by an entrepreneurial logic

Process-centric Cataloguing of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Museums and archives collect and store documentation of processes of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), such as craftsmanship skills, acts, and events recorded in videos, audio tapes, manuscripts, photos, and transcriptions. Such recordings are typically catalogued in an object-centric way as documents, using schemas such as Dublin Core. Also in event-centric models the focus has been on tangi...

The Competing Objectives Underlying the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Traditional knowledge has played, and still plays, a vital role in the daily lives of the vast majority of people. Traditional knowledge is essential to the food security and health of millions of people in the developing world. ... In addition, ... the use and continuous development by local farmers of plant varieties and the sharing and diffusion of these varieties and the knowledge associate...

Cypriot Intangible Cultural Heritage: Digitizing Folk Dances

Cyprus has a long and rich history of dance tradition which unfortunately, year after year, tends to be forgotten; thus, it is our duty to help documenting and disseminating our dance heritage to the younger generations. In this work, we aim to preserve the Cypriot folk dance heritage, creating a state-of-the-art publicly accessible digital archive of folk dances. Our dance library, apart from ...

Pseudo-archaeology: the Appropriation and Commercialization of Cultural Heritage

Technology Intervention for the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)

This paper presents the initial outcomes of a key scoping study undertaken to explore the role of augmented reality and motion detecting technologies in the context of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for museums related environments. Initial prototypes are in the form of an interactive infrared camera based application for children to engage with an Aboriginal puppet. This scoping study is u...