Travel journals from different historical periods contain valuable insights that could be analyzed from different aspects and through that we can understand other people’s points of view about us. Description of different cities in travel literature represents French travelers’ views about these cities besides informing us about the quality and quantity of those cities at the times. “Represen...

in contemporary arabic literature recalling of quranic characters as the using of characters, events or historical periods in literary works are considered as the latest levels of connection between contemporary literature and his heritage. holy quran is one of the sources which its characters and stories have been used a lot in literature and this has resulted in the enrichment of literature. ...

Cultural heritage institutions are fantastic resources of multimedia content. Rich metadata structures, able to capture the diversity of the media, the subject matter and the context around each information asset, are required to make this content accessible. This paper describes how the CIDOC CRM Core format can be used to structure cultural heritage metadata for multimedia by making the appro...

The film industry can provide insights for researchers in cultural heritage. Modern movies require the management of an enormous number of digital assets, analogous to how digital assets are managed in cultural heritage. Furthermore, movies are cultural artefacts in their own right: the preservation of movies gives lessons in the preservation of other ephemera, including all of those digital as...

The particularity of cultural heritage and its interaction with the theme of energy efficiency has often been analysed either for the purposes of integrating climate control systems in listed buildings, which can be quite a complicated problem [ASHRAE, 2003] [CIBSE, 2002], or in the framework of the conservation of cultural heritage, using approaches which at times can be overly sectoral – [Tet...

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tas. 7050, Australia; Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 80, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia; Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Antarctic Division, Australian Marine Mammal Cen...

Rapid urbanization has made the inner city change quickly with the urban sprawl of the whole city. In China, a mass of urban renewal projects have been carried out for meeting the new need of people’s life. However, the traditional means of total renewal has destroyed the urban heritage seriously, which especially led to the diminishing of historical district space. It is urgent to protect and ...

The paper tackles with the challenges and the opportunities to establish a training course for digital curators in an Italian university, namely the University of Turin. The authors give a broad perspective of the role of the digital curator who is a figure that adds to the technical, communicative, managerial and legal skills the ability to embed these skills in more complex cultural ecosystem...

117 As Head points out, “the cultural heritage sector uses the classical geographical sense of landscapes as modified by human activity, with an emphasis on ancient monuments and historical buildings.” In other words, cultural landscape heritage is generally approached in terms of material or morphological artifacts that constitute culturally determined physical, and therefore visible, modifica...