Cultural heritage plays an important role in the creation of creative cities, giving them a new lease life and generating employment opportunities local economies process. The revitalisation development cultural intangible have become major part national policies worldwide. This study adopts multiple case analysis approach. Four heritages three destinations East Asia (Hong Kong, Macau Taiwan) w...

The design of an information system based on cataloguing actvities in a conservation project is istrumental for the operating aspects and procedures. Its definition is an example of some of the fundamental parts of a general project for the modernisation of Public Administration concerning cultural heritage. The main objective is not only to put together the different catalogues, but especially...

In 2013, I was asked by the weekly Die Zeit to record a lecture series about world literature, focusing on works of authors who received Nobel Prize (www.zeitakademie.de/seminare/die-schoenen-kuenste/weltliteratur/). The recording raised number unanswered questions, which four years later sought answer in my book Eine Weltgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur, trying show that processes ca...

This paper presents a simple approach to the handwritten Balinese script characters recognition in palm-leaf lontar manuscripts. The Lontar manuscript is one of cultural heritages found Bali. manuscripts are written using pengrupak, which kind knife for writing on palm leaves. To give color results writing, candlenut used so that appears clear. In this paper, we apply projection profile at segm...

This paper addresses three research issues for virtual heritage system, 3D modeling, 3D media asset database management, and interactive presentation through networks. We first show an overview of our virtual heritage system. Then, our approaches on each research issue are introduced. We develop 3D modeling environment using both of two emerging techniques, i.e., image-based 3D modeling and 3D ...

Sado Island is floating offshore of Niigata on Sea of Japan. This island is 855km2 and composed of Ko-sado (Small Sado) and O-Sado (Large Sado), and both them are arranged in a direction of NNE-SSW. This arrangement are parallel to Kakuda-Yahiko Range, south of Niigata City in the main land. O-Sado has the highest peak of more than 1100 m (Kinpokusan: 1172m), and Ko-Sado of 600 m high peak (Dai...

Evolution is littered with paraphyletic convergences: many roads lead to functional Romes. We propose here another example – an equivalence class structure factoring the broad realm of possible mathematical realizations of the Baars Global Workspace consciousness model. The construction suggests many different physiological systems can support rapidly shifting, sometimes highly tunable, tempora...

This paper examines preservation of an old and multicultural commercial district Bangrak, Bangkok through application ordinary urban heritage, which is alternative approach, but one can fill a gap in the heritage conservation process. The dual objectives this are 1. Introducing lens for considering heritages people context case Bangrak Bangkok, Thailand; 2. Identifying selection criteria herita...

Economic globalization implies a growing interdependence of resources across countries. Technological R&D and cross-border collaboration are often identified as the primary driving forces in the process. This study aims to holistically analyze global landscape of international collaboration and identify influential countries and the interdependencies among countries. A total of 458,381 internat...