Rural (land) community as an element of intangible cultural heritage: historical retrospection

Process-centric Cataloguing of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Museums and archives collect and store documentation of processes of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), such as craftsmanship skills, acts, and events recorded in videos, audio tapes, manuscripts, photos, and transcriptions. Such recordings are typically catalogued in an object-centric way as documents, using schemas such as Dublin Core. Also in event-centric models the focus has been on tangi...

Cypriot Intangible Cultural Heritage: Digitizing Folk Dances

Cyprus has a long and rich history of dance tradition which unfortunately, year after year, tends to be forgotten; thus, it is our duty to help documenting and disseminating our dance heritage to the younger generations. In this work, we aim to preserve the Cypriot folk dance heritage, creating a state-of-the-art publicly accessible digital archive of folk dances. Our dance library, apart from ...

Survey report Intangible Cultural Heritage of Displaced Syrians

Intangible Cultural Heritage: Towards collaborative planning of educational interventions

The paper discusses how to design innovative educational interventions in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). This field is peculiar, as it is characterized by the urgency to preserve and disseminate some of the most peculiar intangible artistic expressions, especially those at risk of disappearing; so far these cultural expressions have been passed down mainly through imitation an...

The Competing Objectives Underlying the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Traditional knowledge has played, and still plays, a vital role in the daily lives of the vast majority of people. Traditional knowledge is essential to the food security and health of millions of people in the developing world. ... In addition, ... the use and continuous development by local farmers of plant varieties and the sharing and diffusion of these varieties and the knowledge associate...