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The significance of values: heritage value typologies re-examined

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In this paper, a critical discussion of value typologies for heritage conservation and management is offered, from the perspective of objects and urban conservation, in light of a review of published literature on heritage values.
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A critical discussion of value typologies for heritage conservation and management is offered, from the perspective of objects and urban conservation, in light of a review of published literature on heritage values. It is suggested that value typologies are often designed and implemented without understanding the implicit consequences of the inclusion and omission of ‘values’. It is also suggested that typologies often fail to prompt the necessary questions to develop satisfactorily detailed understandings of heritage significance, resulting in decisions being based on implicit, rather than explicit, value assessments in practice. Mindful of the problems associated with ‘universalising’ context specific typologies, a broad framework for assessing and communicating significance is proposed. In order to encourage holistic approaches, the framework is designed to combat the false dichotomies of cultural/natural and tangible/intangible heritage; it is hoped this will make the framework widely applicab...

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Digital Twin: Research Framework to Support Preventive Conservation Policies

TL;DR: This paper advocates the application of Digital Twin’s (DT) principles, using HBIM models as a digital replica, to support the preventive conservation of heritage places and demonstrates the need for a DT approach in this context.
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Anticipating Loss: Rethinking Endangerment in Heritage Futures

TL;DR: Heritage relies, to a large extent, on notions of endangerment and consequential attempts to arrest or reverse processes of loss and change as mentioned in this paper, and the papers in this special issue engage critical...
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Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Targets: A Possible Harmonisation? Insights from the European Perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-comparison of a selected sample of publically accessible national cultural heritage databases has been conducted to understand if the taxonomy used by different national databases allows consistency in the classification and valuing of the different assets.
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Sustainable Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage: The Route from Discovery to Engagement—Open Issues in the Mediterranean

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the challenges for underwater cultural heritage preservation and sustainable exploitation with emphasis on the Mediterranean Sea and highlight the potential of this sea to serve local sustainable development goals.
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Influences on interpretation : a critical evaluation of the influences on the design and management of interpretation at lighter dark visitor attractions

Brianna Wyatt
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of FIGURES and TABLES and ABBREVIATIONS of the authors of the book "An Introduction to the STUDY of Figure and Tables".
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

TL;DR: In this article, a social critic of the judgement of taste is presented, and a "vulgar" critic of 'pure' criticiques is proposed to counter this critique.
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Uses of heritage

TL;DR: The Uses of Heritage as mentioned in this paper explores the use of heritage throughout the world and argues that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but rather that these objects and places are used to give tangibility to the values that underpin different communities and to assert and affirm these values.
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Economics and Culture

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the economic aspects of cultural heritage and the economics of creativity in the context of cultural capital and sustainability, and propose a taxonomy of cultural industries.
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Heritage: Critical Approaches

TL;DR: Harrison et al. as discussed by the authors presented a critical account of the emergence of heritage studies as an interdisciplinary field of academic study and presented a broader examination of the function of heritage in late modern societies, with a particular focus on the changes which have resulted from the globalisation of heritage during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.