Cultural Heritage is known as an invaluable asset of human being, which portrays his achievements over centuries. The need for identification and preservation of cultural heritage is well understood and experts‟ attempt is to exploit any possible method to fulfill this aim. There are several published literatures and documents, which emphasize on the importance of the documentation of the cultu...

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations launched a global partnership initiative for the conservation and adaptive management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in 2002. China is one of the first countries that responded to the GIAHS initiative, witnessed by the designation of Qingtian Rice-Fish Culture by FAO in June 2005. It is also the first country t...

Introduction World Heritage had originally been designed as a conservation tool for sites deemed to be of ‘outstanding universal value’ (UNESCO, 2006a). However, its status was soon to become very popular among tourists (Bandarin, 2005; Evans, 2001; Rakic & Leask, 2006; Shackley, 2006) and the World Heritage related issues thus also attracted great interest of the wider academic community. It s...

Over the last ten years, the efficacy of heritage as a public good in society has been in steady decline. In 2006, the Productivity Commission (PCR 2006) inquired into the management of Australia’s historical heritage places. It found that more than 90% of the approximate 150,000 listed items nationwide is privately owned, but recommended nonetheless that Australian governments (Federal, State ...

Photogrammetric documentation can provide a sound database for the needs of architectural heritage preservation. However, the major part of photogrammetric documentation production is not used for subsequent architectural heritage projects, due to lack of knowledge of photogrammetric documentation accuracy. In addition, there are only a few studies with rigorous analysis of the requirements for...

Many repatriates find it challenging to readjust to their heritage culture after spending a significant period of time abroad. Research on predictors of readjustment, however, remains limited. The present study in particular investigated the identification of third culture individuals (TCIs) - that is, individuals who spent their formative years outside of their heritage culture - with an abstr...

Virtual reconstructions, that is, 3D digital models of heritage buildings or spaces, have been an integral part of most virtual heritage applications, and are probably among the first things that come to mind when virtual heritage is mentioned – with Quicktime VR as a close second place. Its importance leads to the adoption and development of various technologies in order to obtain faster, bigg...

Cultural heritage institutions are keeping descriptive information for myriads of cultural objects. This knowledge is organized and encoded using standards such as the CIDOC/CRM, Dublin Core, etc. The CIDOC/CRM standard is getting more and more acceptance as many cultural heritage institutions are adopting it by mapping their descriptive information into it as a means of semantic interoperation...

Malaysia is rich with historic buildings, particularly in Penang and Malacca states. Restoration activities are increasingly important as these states are recognized under UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Restoration activities help to maintain the uniqueness and value of a heritage building. However, increasing in restoration activities has resulted in large quantities of waste. To cope with this ...

Information of the cultural heritage, especially cultural relics, historical architectures and memorial sites, firstly represents their location and time, and then are their cultural or historical attributes and meanings. Moreover, environment and planning also are important information for the protection of urban cultural heritage. Therefore, a lot of the spatial data and related attributes ar...