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The Scope and Definitions of Heritage: From Tangible to Intangible
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The scope and definition of heritage as promulgated by the various charters across the globe was discussed in this paper. But the scope of heritage was broadened to include gardens, landscape and environment, and later reinterpreted and defined quite differently in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and China.Abstract:
Since the adoption of the Venice Charter in 1964, there have been many conservation guidelines in the form of charters, recommendations and resolutions that have been introduced and adopted by international organisations such as UNESCO and ICOMOS. This article focuses on the scope and definition of heritage as promulgated by the various charters across the globe. The term ‘historic monument’ used in the Venice Charter 1964 was reinterpreted by ICOMOS in 1965 as ‘monument’ and ‘site’; and by UNESCO in 1968 as ‘cultural property’ to include both movable and immovable. The different terminology between the UNESCO and ICOMOS was reconciled at the World Heritage Convention 1972. At national and regional levels the scope of heritage was broadened to include gardens, landscape and environment, and later reinterpreted and defined quite differently in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and China. Although the scope of heritage, in general, is now agreed internationally to include ‘tangible’ and ‘intangible’ as...read more
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A Survey of Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality for Cultural Heritage
Mafkereseb Kassahun Bekele,Roberto Pierdicca,Emanuele Frontoni,Eva Savina Malinverni,James Gain +4 more
TL;DR: The article surveys the state-of-the-art in augmented-, virtual-, and mixed-reality systems as a whole and from a cultural heritage perspective and identifies specific application areas in digital cultural heritage and makes suggestions as to which technology is most appropriate in each case.
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Current sociological theories and issues in tourism
Erik Cohen,Scott A. Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the broad social trends and specific historical events that recently affected tourism and discuss how the focus of sociological inquiry in tourism studies shifted from earlier discourses of authenticity and the tourist gaze to three novel theoretical approaches, the mobilities paradigm, the performativity approach and actor-network theory (ANT), which reflect a broader meta-theoretical re-orientation in contemporary philosophy and sociology.
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Contesting ‘Language’ as ‘Heritage’: Negotiation of Identities in Late Modernity
Adrian Blackledge,Angela Creese,Taşkin Baraç,Arvind Bhatt,Shahela Hamid,Li Wei,Vally Lytra,Peter Martin,Chao-Jung Wu,Dilek Yağcioğlu +9 more
TL;DR: This article found that multilingual young people in complementary school classrooms use linguistic resources in sophisticated and creative ways to negotiate subject positions which appear to contest and subvert schools' attempts to impose upon them "heritage" identities.
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Visualization of Cultural Heritage Collection Data: State of the Art and Future Challenges
Florian Windhager,Paolo Federico,Günther Schreder,Katrin Glinka,Marian Dörk,Silvia Miksch,Eva Mayr +6 more
TL;DR: This survey reviews information visualization approaches to digital cultural heritage collections and reflects on the state of the art in techniques and design choices, and contextualizes the survey with humanist perspectives on the field and point out opportunities for future research.
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Authenticity and the pseudo-backstage of agri-tourism.
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