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ABSTRACT
Underwater cultural heritage (UCH), which includes evidence of past cultures preserved in shipwrecks, enables the relevant epistemic commun...
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Introduction
Culture is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behaviour. It includes the ideas, val...
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*What it's like:
Rich in its Polish and German heritage, the historic area of Buffalo known as Kaisertown is a residential community of quiet streets made up mostly of older, well-kept homes in friendly neighborhoods. It is centered on Clinton Street, and bordered by the New York State Thruway and Buffalo Creek.
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Introduction
Efforts to preserve resources on cultural heritage have gained new momentum throughout the world nowadays. Protecting cultural heritage...
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The New South Wales (NSW) Aboriginal cultural heritage regulatory regime is undergoing significant reform with the staged introduction of the National...
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Introduction
The literature on the history of libraries indicates that the mechanism of recording the human communication and its preservation was t...
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Since its inception in 2004, NDIIPP has grown from an experimental program into a true partnership of concerned organizations working together to sustain access to digital information that is critical to scholarship and cultural heritage nationwide. 1 The seeds for NDIIPP were initially sown in a report issued in July 2000 by the National Research Council titled LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress. The topics treated in this issue include, more specifically: * new organizations and missions and new perspectives on sustainability; * preservation of specific types of content, including Web content, cultural heritage and special collections, ejournals, and geospatial information, and the format and metadata standards to support ingest, management, and migration of digital...
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International photo exhibition of 77 works chronicles preservation efforts of endangered cultural heritage sites in developing countries.
WASHINGTON, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Meridian International Center and California-based Global Heritage Fund announce the opening of an international photographic exhibition, Preservation by Design: Safeguarding the World's Cultural Heritage on Saturday, March 20, 2010. The 77 images, which have never been seen by the general public, contain works by talented local photographers living in or near archaeological and cultural sites in China, Colombia, India, Peru, and Turkey. Photographs from Cambodia and Libya, drawn from the Global Heritage Fund archives, were taken by GHF field staff intimately familiar with these locales and the difficult...
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Introduction
I am a white, middle class female who was changed forever by my experiences on the African continent. Having been born and raised in th...
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A millennia-old necklace that was sold in a 2007 Christie's auction for $100,000 was returned Thursday to its rightful owner - the government of Iraq.
The necklace - a fading, gold-etched, lapis lazuli chain of beads from the Mesopotamian era - was one of many artifacts that had been stolen by U.S. troops and contractors from museums and archaeological sites in Iraq during the U.S.-led invasion against Saddam Hussein's regime.