BACKGROUND The concept of benefit sharing has been a topical issue on the international stage for more than two decades, gaining prominence in international law, research ethics and political philosophy. In spite of this prominence, the concept of benefit sharing is not devoid of controversies related to its definition and justification. This article examines the discourses and justifications o...

When business is bad, as the Chinese proverb goes, paint the store. The social sciences unendingly seem to be repainting the store with new fads, yet business remains bad. Some would argue that it is time to tear down the store (I.Wallerstein 1991). Others see this as precisely the problem. We are forever slaying old paradigms. Instead of standing on the shoulders of our predecessors, we take a...

This Colloquium is concerned with how our understanding of how our understanding of library, information, and documentation phenomena are related to cultural, historical, social, and political contexts and issues. History is a narrative of what has happened in the past. Heritage is what we now have in the present from that past. The heritage of library, information and documentation studies can...

The breadth of biodiversity literature available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is potentially of great use to agricultural research. It provides access to literature drawn from across the world, and its archives document the Earth as it was one hundred years ago and more. However, this strength of BHL is also its weakness: the breadth of coverage of BHL can complicate finding ...

In this paper we will show our data description model conceived for avoiding the risk of realizing misleading Virtual Heritage (VH) reconstructions and for making accessible in a standardized way the background research material that lies under a "VR cultural product". The basic idea is to face the problem of the lack of standards for documenting sources in order to realize not only nice fast m...

Virtual heritage is a system to create visual representation of reconstruction the historical building and monument in the golden period. The Augmented Reality technology is used to add the user experiences where virtual objects are merge with the real environment. The significance of reconstruction of digital culture heritage are to preserve, protect and interpret of our cultural and history. ...

The post-industrial cities of America are rife with significant cultural heritage that contribute to the national historic narrative. Many of these cities have experienced issues associated with disinvestment and population loss stemming from changing globalizing economic forces beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, jeopardizing their urban cultural heritage as these cities face dec...

one of the main concerns of intellectuals in the 40 and 50 th. back to the concept of self-concern in such abundance in the works of jalal ahmad, law, and nasr farid is there. however, in this context, one must ask: back to what self? in contrast, the return on the one hand, the rejection means and the other, a return to the past. however, such a return is guaranteed two assumptions: first, it ...

the vivid description in the history of beyhaqi of the political realities of its time is known to the researchers of this invaluable heritage of iranian history. in the mass of khwaja abolfal beyhaqi’s (385-470 ah) political reports which usually encompasses details and an awareness of the hidden and overt of political events of the qaznavid era, the theme of psychology of power is clearly tra...