Conservation activities of cultural heritage in Turkey were started the late 19th century and accelerated after second half 20th century. In this context, inventory registration started, site boundary definitions carried out administrative organizational institutions structured throughout country. 
 These conservation also expanded Cappadocia, one Turkey’s first region that a National Park...

Cultural heritage presents a big quantity of information; they entice different kinds of persons. In last decades, computer technology and internet helped bringing history to present life. Ancient and historical documents were digitized and exposed online. Therefore, cultural heritage digital libraries and web sites were created, first to enhance document preservation, and second to facilitate ...

Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the rich archaeological heritage of Syria and northern Iraq has faced severe threats, including looting, combat-related damage, and intentional demolition of monuments. However, the inaccessibility of the conflict zone to archaeologists or cultural heritage specialists has made it difficult to produce accurate damage assessments, impeding efforts...

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...

computers to archaeology and cultural heritage either as tools for promoting scientific work or as electronic aids providing users with information. During the past decade, CD-ROMs and Web sites have provided public access to virtual museums, archaeological sites, and works of art. Audio CD guides installed in cultural heritage sites let visitors participate in prerecorded audio tours, and info...

The European amount of digitized material is growing very rapidly, as National, regional and European programmes support the digitization processes by Museums, Libraries, Archives, Archaeological sites and Audiovisual repositories. The generation of digital cultural heritage is accelerated also by the impulse of Europeana that is fostering the European cultural institutions to produce even more...

Managing information related to cultural heritage sites is an important task and much work has been devoted to developing special purpose document management systems. These systems are able to store and retrieve large amounts of documents; however, while this is adequate for some purposes, it is not sufficient for research and conservation work. Researchers need to determine relationships betwe...

1. Cultural heritage problems share many characteristics with problems encountered in environmental economics. Many of the services provided may not enter markets, or do so only indirectly and imperfectly. And many benefits are wholly intangible. Moreover, the nature of the benefits provided by cultural heritage sites is conceptually very similar to those provided by, for example, national park...