1. Migratory species are generally more at risk of becoming endangered than nonmigratory ones because their habitat requirements are greater. As a result, many migratory species that were once common are becoming increasingly rare. All countries of the world share a responsibility to conserve this common natural heritage. It is axiomatic that the Convention supports Parties by encouraging the d...

This discussion is about innovative solutions for assembling multimedia digital repositories for collaborative use in specific contexts and communities and enhancing scholarly understanding and experiences of digital cultural heritage. Several aspects are stress such as the dynamic aggregation of cross-media resources across existing institutional digital libraries and repositories. Research qu...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to affirm that it possible segment visitors cultural heritage into homogeneous groups according a series characteristics detect the variables have statistical significance identify visitor clusters. Design/methodology/approach Four case studies were selected, where total 500 questionnaires made visitors. authors proceeded with cluster analysis using SPSS sof...

IIED together with researchers in Peru, Panama, India, China and Kenya is conducting participatory research on traditional knowledge systems of indigenous and local communities and the role of customary law in protecting traditional knowledge . Through communitylevel case studies, we aim to ensure that international and national policy is built on a good understanding of local realities, norms ...

This paper presents a new metadata aggregation approach based on a mediating repository that intends to ensure the integrity, authenticity and semantic enrichment of metadata provided to Europeana by heterogeneous collections. Primary metadata are mapped to CARARE schema, a schema suitable for describing archaeological and architectural heritage assets, digital resources, collections, as well a...

Rapid reduction in natural resources as a consequence to the expanded urbanization, global warming and reduced natural habitat posed a considerable threat to the sustainability of traditional medicine. Being completely dependent upon natural resources like herbs, minerals and animal products, traditional medicine would possibly rank first in order of extinction of heritage if an alternative way...

Archaeological Heritage in the Context of Sustainable Development The concept sustainable development is widely declared and used contemporary scientific dis­course. Sustainability also refers to cultural archaeological heritage. What an important ele­ment conservation doctrine a departure from idea protection ar­chaeological heritage favour rational management such heritage, accordance with ra...

We investigate the concept of the heritage store, that is, the locations that lies at the heart of a brand's identity and history. Based on store observations and interviews with managers and sales personnel in the luxury industry, we analyze the characteristics of heritage stores and their role in the management of heritage brands. We show how managers sacralize a store's heritage to nurture t...

Traditionally, references to web content have been made by using URL hyperlinks. However, as links are 'broken' when content is moved to another location, a reference system based on URLs is inherently unstable and poses risks for continued access to web resources. To create a more reliable system for referring to published material on the web, from the mid-1990s a number of schemes have been d...