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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: The Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPI-CHER) project as discussed by the authors explores emerging intellectual property-related issues in archaeological contexts; the means by which they are being addressed or resolved; and the broader implications of these issues and concerns.
Abstract: How can ethnographic methods help communities articulate and enact their own conceptions of heritage management? This and related questions are being explored through an international research project, 'Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage'. The project includes up to twenty community-based initiatives that incorporate community-based participatory research and ethnographic methods to explore emerging intellectual property-related issues in archaeological contexts; the means by which they are being addressed or resolved; and the broader implications of these issues and concerns. We discuss three examples that use ethnography to (a) articulate local or customary laws and principles of archaeological heritage management among a First Nations group in British Columbia; (b) assemble knowledge related to land/sea use and cultural practices of the Moriori people of Rekohu (Chatham Islands) for their use in future land and heritage management policies; and (c) aid a tribal cultural centre in...
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TL;DR: Multiple surveying methods, data processing of multi-source data and presentation and documentation of the data are not only useful for Chinese classical garden preservation, but also could be applied to other researches of cultural heritage sites that contain various elements and complicated space characteristics.
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TL;DR: This research paper proposes an own working methodology for the generation of 3D virtual models of historical cities based on the combined use of laser scanning and photogrammetric techniques, which complement each other.
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TL;DR: Although attacks on cultural property have caused international outcry, our understanding of this phenomenon is still limited as discussed by the authors. In particular, little research has been directed towards exploring the role of cultural property in such attacks.
Abstract: Although attacks on cultural property have caused international outcry, our understanding of this phenomenon is still limited. In particular, little research has been directed towards exploring the ...
55 citations