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Cultural heritage

About: Cultural heritage is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 28201 publications have been published within this topic receiving 273875 citations. The topic is also known as: cultural assets & cultural goods.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that there did exist ways and means of protecting the cultural heritage that were just as effective as the scientific procedures and that despite political independence, heritage management in the region has continued to ref...
Abstract: Heritage management in southern Africa has been the by-product of colonialism. During the colonial period therefore, much of the practice reflected the interests of the colonial masters and hardly considered the aspirations of the local communities. Heritage was largely considered as of scientific interest and protection was also viewed in this light. As far as its protection is concerned, the general thinking was that proper scientific procedures needed to be followed. In this paper, we however argue that, traditionally, there did exist ways and means of protecting the cultural heritage that were just as effective as the scientific procedures. However, with the insistence on science as well as the political process in southern Africa and indeed elsewhere on the continent, part of the legacy of colonialism has been the alienation of local communities from their cultural heritage. Regrettably, it would seem that, despite political independence, heritage management in the region has continued to ref...

62 citations

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TL;DR: The base idea behind using VR and AR techniques is to offer archaeologists and general public new insights on the reconstructed archaeological sites allowing archaeologists to study directly from within the virtual site and allowing the general public to immersively explore a realistic reconstruction of the sites.
Abstract: The paper presents different issues dealing with both the preservation of cultural heritage using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies in a cultural context. While the VR/AR technologies are mentioned, the attention is paid to the 3D visualization, and 3D interaction modalities illustrated through three different demonstrators: the VR demonstrators (immersive and semi-immersive) and the AR demonstrator including tangible user interfaces. To show the benefits of the VR and AR technologies for studying and preserving cultural heritage, we investigated the visualisation and interaction with reconstructed underwater archaeological sites. The base idea behind using VR and AR techniques is to offer archaeologists and general public new insights on the reconstructed archaeological sites allowing archaeologists to study directly from within the virtual site and allowing the general public to immersively explore a realistic reconstruction of the sites. Both activities are based on the same VR engine, but drastically differ in the way they present information and exploit interaction modalities. The visualisation and interaction techniques developed through these demonstrators are the results of the ongoing dialogue between the archaeological requirements and the technological solutions developed.

62 citations

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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The tutorial explores a possible digital future for NS and CH through key concepts; adoption of digital surrogates, empirical (scientific) provenance, perpetual digital conservation, and ‘born archival’ semantic knowledge management.
Abstract: The tools and standards of best practice adopted by natural science (NS) and cultural heritage (CH) professionals will determine the digital future of NS and CH digital imaging work. This tutorial discusses emerging digital technologies and explores issues influencing widespread adoption of digital practices for NS and CH. The tutorial explores a possible digital future for NS and CH through key concepts; adoption of digital surrogates, empirical (scientific) provenance, perpetual digital conservation, and ‘born archival’ semantic knowledge management. The tutorial discusses multiple image based technologies along with current research including; Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), Photometric Stereo, and new research in the next generation of multi-view RTI. This research involves extending stereo correspondence methods. These technologies permit generation of digital surrogates that can serve as trusted representations of ‘real world’ content. The tutorial explores how empirical provenance contributes to the reliability of digital surrogates, and how perpetual digital conservation can ensure that digital surrogates will be archived and available for future generations. The tutorial investigates the role of semantically based knowledge management strategies and their use in simplifying ease of use by natural science and CH professionals as well as long term preservation activities. The tutorial also investigates these emerging technologies’ potential to democratize digital technology, making digital tools and methods easy to adopt and make NS and CH materials widely available to diverse audiences. The tutorial concludes with handson demonstrations of image-based capture and processing methods and a practical problem solving Q&A with the audience.

62 citations

01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the historical development of the notion of intangible heritage within UNESCO in order to explore some of the implications of this shift in approach and demonstrate how UNESCO's approach to heritage has involved a shift of focus away from its founding, Western, museological principles in favour of a more anthropological and global vision of (tangible) cultural properties.
Abstract: to be understood in terms of time (as an evolving process) and usage (not just for aesthetic contemplation). It therefore involves a progressive shift away from considering cultural expressions as objects to considering them as processes. I consider the historical development of the notion of intangible heritage within UNESCO in order to explore some of the implications of this shift in approach. I hope to demonstrate how UNESCO's approach to heritage has involved a shift of focus away from its founding, Western, museological principles in favour of a more anthropological and global vision of (tangible) cultural properties. This vision considers culture and heritage in their context and leads, ultimately, to a focus on intangible properties (Levi-Strauss 1997). UNESCO's focus is now centred, for both tangible and intangible heritage, on the dynamic nature of culture and on the performing and continuous recreation of cultural expressions. This new approach aims at conceiving of heritage not only as a consecrated masterpiece of the past to be venerated and preserved, but also as a symbolic and living space to be appropriated by local communities who are the bearers of a collective and active memory. UNESCO's cutting-edge definition of heritage is therefore not simply the result of the introduction of the category of intangible heritage, but should be considered as the consequence of a longer and more complex process stimulated by a reappraisal of the overall idea of heritage.

62 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of cultural heritage on the attractiveness of cities by analyzing the location choice of households and develop and estimate a residential sorting model that allows them to compute the marginal willingness to pay for cultural heritage as well as other urban amenities.
Abstract: Recent research has stressed the role of consumer amenities for urban development. In this article, we investigate the impact of cultural heritage on the attractiveness of cities by analyzing the location choice of households. We develop and estimate a residential sorting model that allows us to compute the marginal willingness to pay for cultural heritage as well as other urban amenities. Since the attractiveness of residential locations may be affected by amenities of other nearby locations as well, we extend the model to incorporate these effects, using spatial econometric techniques. Our model accounts for unobserved amenities, heterogeneity of preferences among households and spatial correlation between observed and unobserved amenities. The results confirm that cultural heritage has a substantial impact on the attractiveness of cities. © The Author (2012). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

62 citations


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Performance
Metrics
No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20244
20232,033
20224,256
20211,681
20202,042
20192,082