In this paper we outline the importance of event-centric documentation for structuring cultural metadata and historical context. Historical analysis can be seen as an analysis of events involving participation of people and things, meeting each other and thus creating history. Event modeling is so abstract that it can be used to describe cultural items and documentations of scientific observati...

In the course of his short literary life, Liu Na'ou travelled across four geographical areas: Taiwan, Japan, Shanghai and Beijing, as well as five cultural domains: Taiwanese, Japanese, French, English and Chinese. The transnational facet of Liu's modernist writing is not merely literary or cultural but political and historical. The earliest modernist writing in China was initiated on the basis...

creation of urban identity is the important subject in architecture and urban design. so, this article foci’s on the creation of identity in urban context with participation approach in architecture and urban design. corporate architecture is an architectonic discipline which focuses on designing and constructing buildings, spaces or environments with the aim of meeting the needs of a business ...

there are few iranian early islamic cities like dinevar that attract the attention of classic historians and geographers. its remains are in a vast and prolific plain northwest of sahneh, kermanshah province, and since it was located on the mesopotamian routs it has gotten a unique status. based on the authors’ filed surveys, the dinevar most ancient evidences are related to seleucids (224-651....

In the 1980s, I published the first global maps of human behavior, constructed from variables taken from the Ethnographic Atlas data base of G.P. Murdock (1967) the Cross-Cultural Summary of R. Textor (1967), and other historical and anthropological sources.(DeMeo 1986, 1991, 1998). As will be summarized here, when the global cross-cultural data on human behavior are mapped, a previously-hidden...

Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge, that can be leveraged to investigate interwinements between cultures. With this aim we apply two methods, Markov chains and Google matrix, for the analysis of the hyperlink networks of 24 Wikipedia language editions, and rank all their articles by PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. Using automatic extraction of people names we obt...