Over the past thirty years, the concept of cultural heritage has been continually broadened. The Venice Charter (1964) made reference to “monuments and sites” and dealt with architectural heritage. The question rapidly expanded to cover groups of buildings, vernacular architecture, and industrial and 20th century built heritage. Over and above the study of historic gardens, the concept of “cult...

The presence and deteriorating action of micro-organisms on monuments and stone works of art have received considerable attention in the last few years. Knowledge of the microbial populations living on stone materials is the starting point for successful conservation treatment and control. This paper reviews the literature on cyanobacteria and chlorophyta that cause deterioration of stone cultu...

Delhi is one of the ancient historical and greatest cultural cities of the World. Delhi’s two monuments the Qutb Minar and Humayun’s Tomb have been declared the World Cultural Heritage sites. Delhi was built and rebuilt seven times on different sites through out the history within a triangular area of about 142.20 sq. kms. lying between the last ridge of the Aravalli Range and the River Yamuna....

The protection of cultural heritage sites is normally evaluated in terms of universal and scholarly significance criteria, although increasingly the contributions of sites and monuments to the economic and social well-being of communities have been recognized. Human rights discourse, despite its many problems and limitations, offers a possible mechanism for evaluating heritage in terms of socia...

Since cultural monuments and/or heritage sites, depending on the degree of their international recognition, generate economic activity and contribute to the economy of the countries in which they are located, one should regard them as valuable economic resources. Th e aim of this work is to fi rstly, address the issue of economically eff ective and socially responsible management of cultural mo...

Italy’s Cultural Heritage is the world’s most diverse and rich patrimony and attracts millions of visitors every year to monuments, archaeological sites and museums. The valorization of cultural heritage represents nowadays one of the most important research challenges in the Italian scenario. In this paper, we present a general multimedia recommender system able to uniformly manage heterogeneo...

In this paper we present the current status of semantic data management in the cultural heritage field and we focus on the challenges imposed by the multidimensionality of the information in this domain. We identify current shortcomings, thus needs, that should be addressed in the coming years to enable the integration and exploitation of the rich information deriving from the multidisciplinary...

in the present era, the cultural heritage of the nations is taken into consideration, and has found great significance in several aspects. this importance has enforced the nations to enact their particular laws in cultural heritage domain; among the rest, the ownership of historic-cultural monuments. these laws lead to the restriction of private ownerships in many cases. in the first glance, it...

Microbial agents are among the major causes of deterioration of cultural heritage, strongly affecting our global cultural legacy, the stone, glass, wood and other sources used to fabricate millions of artworks and monuments around the world. However, it is not all about rotting and erosion! Microbial action has been harnessed to clean the surfaces of stone sculptures and buildings and frescoes....

Conceptualization of information allows improved visualization and manipulation of large amounts of data. Especially in digitization of cultural heritage, and when aiming at presenting more than one monument, abstraction of information becomes the key solution. Our proposed application aims to present the main archaeological monuments of Crete through a conceptual 3D model. It allows the user t...