Following World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the political and population dynamics of the Middle East changed dramatically. New national borders, defined either by western mandates or by local sovereignties, included peoples and architectural legacies from a variety of religions and ethnicities. Under the unifying pressures of national ideologies, the diverse groups of the Midd...

This paper suggests that many of the negative effects of globalization and inadequate tourism growth can be compensate by the use of intelligent ICT solutions in the development of heritage tourism. The encounter between cultural tourism and information and communication technologies represents an opportunity to preserve national culture, create partnership and enhance destinations value in inf...

Like many governmental actors in recent decades, the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has operated increasingly through partnerships with other state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community groups, and private sector corporations. Perhaps the most salient example of this trend toward partnerships is the rapid growth and development of national heritage areas (NHAs...

The study examines the relationship between the structure of cross-national relations and the dyadic cultural similarity of 19 countries over 10 years, based on the assumption that patterns of interaction between state, private sector, and civil society actors influence national cultures. The relations analyzed include trade, military alliances, IGO memberships, phone calls, and military confli...

This article argues that inter-state disputes regarding the ownership of art heritage are not of prime importance from a societal perspective. Seeking to establish “legitimate ownership” absorbs much time and effort but is not always successful because it involves many political aspects beyond the purely legal realm. Even in situations where “legitimate ownership” is indeed identifiable, the re...

In April 2000 the South African Heritage Resource Agency (SAHRA) succeeded the previous National Monuments Council that was responsible for the management and maintenance of heritage sites in South Africa. SAHRA is legally based on the National Heritage Resource Act (NHRA) of 1999, which re-defines heritage in a revolutionary way. Until then “heritage” had always been defined as physical object...

Cultural heritage content is everywhere on the web, in traditional environments such as libraries, museums, galleries and audiovisual archives, but also in popular magazines and newspapers, in multiple languages and multiple media. MultiMatch is a 30 month specific targeted research project under the Sixth Framework Programme, supported by the unit for Content, Learning and Cultural Heritage (D...