Cultural heritage around the globe suffers from wars, natural disasters and human negligence. The importance of cultural heritage documentation is well recognized and there is an increasing pressure to document our heritage both nationally and internationally. This has alerted international organizations to the need for issuing guidelines describing the standards for documentation. Charters, re...

The design of an information system based on cataloguing actvities in a conservation project is istrumental for the operating aspects and procedures. Its definition is an example of some of the fundamental parts of a general project for the modernisation of Public Administration concerning cultural heritage. The main objective is not only to put together the different catalogues, but especially...

The design of an information system based on cataloguing actvities in a conservation project is istrumental for the operating aspects and procedures. Its definition is an example of some of the fundamental parts of a general project for the modernisation of Public Administration concerning cultural heritage. The main objective is not only to put together the different catalogues, but especially...

This work is part of a multidisciplinary research project, within the National Key Technology R&D Program, “The Research and Application of Spatial Information Technology for conservation of large-scale heritage sites”, developed in collaboration with archaeologists and researchers from the field of geoinfomatics and hydrology, which aims at the application of spatial information technology for...

Purpose This paper aims to set out the role of engineers in heritage conservation and investigates evaluates proposed available tools, technology innovations that are currently civil engineering sector can be applied conservation. Design/methodology/approach As society has become more aware grandeur spaces structures, there is increasing pressure preserve historic buildings. But, it economic co...

A number of conservation projects including World Heritage sites are underway in Lahore Pakistan. The most important concern for conservation of these monuments is to maintain authenticity in all aspects. Although we conserve, preserve and restore monuments we often neglect the aspects of authenticity from different angles. The paper will focus on three case studies built around 1640’s namely S...

Wireless sensor networks have become extremely popular in a number of fields in recent years, the cultural heritage among them. To date, however, communications quality has not been technically validated in any of the various built (churches, museums, archaeological sites) or natural (caves, lava tubes) heritage scenarios. The present study establishes methodology for assessing the quality of w...

Middle Eastern countries are suddenly confronted with the problem of a severe loss of architectural heritage, which is the material manifestation of their own cultural inheritance and thus that of their identity, particularly under conditions of a sudden, rapid, radical and haphazard way of transformation as imposed over a society and its cultural geography by global impacts. This paper aims to...

in iran, discourse on cultural heritage politically started to burgeon during the 1930s by efforts of enlightened thinkers (roshanfekran) and western orientalists. by the rise of reza shah in 1925 and during the pahlavi epoch (1925-1979), the western archaeologists or architects were closely engaged in cultural heritage affairs, which effectively manipulated the concept of iranian nationalism p...