Brand-driven cultural industry development was the inevitable requirement for coordinated development of regional economy and society. In order to create the culture brand of Shijiazhuang, the authors first analyzed its cultural resources, clear focus. Then created a culture brand with characteristic of Shijiazhuang by a number of strategies such as: Found a suitable site of the culture brand, ...

During the last few years digital evolution of the Cultural Heritage field has accelerated rapidly, not least through the aggregation of cultural content into Europeana. In this process the LIDO harvesting schema has been successfully used in many EU projects (ATHENA , JUDAICA and others) due to its ability to support the full range of descriptive information about museum objects. The next step...

In this paper we discuss some issues related to digital libraries that are born as aggregators of cultural heritage resources harvested from different distributed digital repositories. Whenever such aggregations fall short of providing a real service to users, most of the time this is due to the inadequacy of the data (or conceptual) model proposed for the mapping and exposed to the final user....

Many memory institutions are now digitizing their holdings to provide online access. Although recent developments in technology have allowed users to create high quality digital resources outside institutional boundaries, little consideration has been given to the potential contribution that the general public can make to digitizing cultural heritage. This article seeks to scope the growing tre...

Both organization theory and practical experience tell us that organizations mired in conflict have a more difficult time in accomplishing their goals than organizations that are not. Among other considerations, the transaction costs associated with conflict—money, staff time, lost opportunities—consume resources that otherwise could contribute to pursuing primary organizational goals. Given th...