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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, a performance-based assessment procedure is proposed on the basis of Italian guidelines for seismic risk mitigation of cultural heritage, in order to support the interpretation of observed damage, which could be used for small-to-medium size artworks such as museum contents, historic archives and libraries, and archaeological elements.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss a landscape perspective versus a "single object" perspective when conserving semi-natural grassland in agricultural landscapes, and conclude that when land use change in the landscape surrounding an object, important additional effects on the different values are found.
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TL;DR: In this article, a political science definition that demarcates the external limits of a nation state and its exercise of sovereignty is employed to explore the social and cultural spaces of border communities where politics often play a significant role.
Abstract: In examining border tourism and border communities this paper employs a political science definition that demarcates the external limits of a nation state and its exercise of sovereignty. Other types of borders and boundaries, such as those of a national park or cultural heritage reserve, that exist within a country, are referred to only in passing. The way in which advances in the technologies of mobility and modes of transport have influenced the expansion of territorial boundaries over the centuries, from terrestrial to marine to aerial dimensions, is examined and related to contemporary forms of tourism. The focus is therefore on international tourism – visitation involving travel across the borders of sovereign states. To explore the social and cultural spaces of border communities where politics often play a significant role, cultural studies are combined with anthropological and sociological theory. This section of the paper draws in particular upon the social construction of space and pla...
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TL;DR: In this paper, VR devices are employed to provide not only a simple visualization but also an immersive experience for digitally reconstructed heritage scenarios, which can be used to interact and navigate in a complex 3D or 4D (temporal) archaeological scene as well as to have access to digital media contents of several MB of size.
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