The 2003 Unesco Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is addressed to States and assigns them several tasks. No State, however, can accomplish all these tasks without mobilizing a wide network of institutions, associations and individuals. The national ICH policies intersect, overlap and often transform the existing relationships among these actors. This pape...

Mysore city is known as the ‘city of palaces’. It is an ancient, historical, cultural capital and a heritage city in India. The city has been recognised as a heritage city under the cultural tag both by the state and national governments. The total harmony of architectural buildings, sites, lakes, parks and open spaces and the back drop of Chamundi hills adds to the city’s attraction. The city ...

Marcello A Tonelli, MD, SM, FRCPC (Work Group Co-Chair), received an MD from the University of Western Ontario, specialist certification in nephrology (FRCPC) at Dalhousie University, and an SM in epidemiology from Harvard University. He is a nephrologist and Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. He serves as Associate Editor of American Journal of Kidney Diseases, the Cochrane Rena...

The UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage, adopted in October 2003, is important for affirming the role of (national) heritage institutions and extending existing systems for preservation of documentary heritage to cover digital materials. This approach has distinct advantages, but has also been criticized for taking too narrow a view of the dynamic diversity of the digital env...

At present, the protection of intangible cultural heritage has received more and attention from all levels society. Intangible is a treasure national culture. It an indispensable part Chinese civilization, crystallization wisdom represents country’s soft power. The effective organization management knowledge premise foundation for protection, dissemination, inheritance heritage. Ontology linked...