Introduction This chapter considers social patterns that contribute to shaping the position of women in Arab societies today. It focuses on the impact of two central sources of influence: cultural and especially religious heritage and Arab intellectual production. Culture plays a pervasive role in composing the social context of women's position in the Arab world, and religious interpretations ...

Intangible cultural heritage is the continuous progress of human society. refers to various traditional expressions that exist in intangible form and are closely related lives people inherited from generation generation. a human-oriented living heritage. It emphasizes human-centric skills, experience, spirit, characterized by changes. What stands out attribute, more emphasis on quality does not...

This paper reflects on a decade of digital collecting and digital preservation development at the National Library of New Zealand. It will examine the workflows, policies and tools that have been developed in the decade since the funding for the National Digital Heritage Archive was received. The paper will look closely at the requirements that were identified for the initial development of the...

“occupy wall street” movement which has aimed the heart of the global financial capitalist system enjoys a special significance in the perspective of social-economic- political, human rights (work force), moral and cultural heritage of nations and can be considered as a symbol of work force economic jihad in national and global level in order to realize justice and socio-economic equality. but ...

This submission describes the very first step in the long-term project of building a national database of digitized cultural and scientific heritage. The main idea is to create an object-oriented set of metadata for describing any kind of digital object and to define translations to other metadata standards.

Europe is nicely complex; that is, rich and full of diversity. Lessons learned from the painful past are immense (Betancourt, 2015) together with a healthy anxiety about the future. One may perceive Europe as the most prosperous, peaceful, and safest part of the world. Yet this rich heritage is also a reflection of a hidden truth: trauma is not only endemic in Europe, but it also lives in the s...

Both organization theory and practical experience tell us that organizations mired in conflict have a more difficult time in accomplishing their goals than organizations that are not. Among other considerations, the transaction costs associated with conflict—money, staff time, lost opportunities—consume resources that otherwise could contribute to pursuing primary organizational goals. Given th...