Title of Dissertation: EVALUATING THE IMPACTS OF TOP-DOWN PROTECTED AREA GOVERNANCE ON LOCAL LIVELIHOODS – THE CASE OF THE TURKISH VILLAGE OF KAPIKIRI Aysegul Yilmaz, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Marie Howland, Urban Studies and Planning This study evaluates the positive and negative impacts of strict protected area designation on the livelihoods and socioecono...

ii Preface The LaTeCH (Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities) annual workshop series aims to provide a forum for researchers who are working on aspects of natural language and information technology applications that pertain to data from the humanities, social sciences, and cultural heritage. The LaTeCH workshops were initially motivated by the growing inter...

Discover is a web resource supporting the visual arts and music curriculum in New Zealand schools. It contains 2500 multimedia items from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, which holds the national cultural heritage collections, and 300 resources from other sources. The product uses a meta-data scheme that combines simple (unqualified) DC and qualified DC, EAD and local extensio...

Our study targets interoperable semantic annotation of Cultural Heritage or eHumanities texts in German and Hungarian. A semantic resource we focus on is the Thompson Motif-index of folk-literature (TMI), the labels of which are available only in English. We investigate the use lexical data on the Web in German and Hungarian for supporting semi-automatic translation of TMI: lexical resources of...

This thesis is set in a research e ort that aims to model sociocultural and temporal aspects to allow Senegalese communities to share and to co-construct their sociocultural knowledge. Indeed, with the globalization it is very common to meet African youth and particularly Senegalese youth knowing more about the geography of the West than their own countries. Thus, to refresh the memory of our f...

Digital preservation is an integral part of the management of information and the institutions in the cultural heritage sector are seeking for ways to incorporate it into their everyday practice. While there are generic approaches to long-term preservation, further research and development work is needed to address any specifics of the digital objects in the cultural heritage domain. In this pa...

The CIPHER project is concerned with developing tools and methodologies to support the exploration of cultural heritage via web-based Cultural Heritage Forums. As part of the project, a Resource Annotation Tool (RAT) is being developed to support the collection, annotation and retrieval of diverse web-resources to provide content for personal or shared spaces within a forum. Interaction with th...