Think tanks is an important witness and symbol of American intellectuals’ response to the “climate opinion” ideological transformation during Cold War. As a pioneer civil think their transitions, Heritage Foundation, characterized by quick response, object-oriented research Mandate for Leadership, symbolized birth advocacy tank. At same time, Foundation functioned as mediator practitioner neo-c...

In recent years an increasing number of state-based heritage protection schemes have asserted ownership over traditional medical knowledge (TMK) through various forms of cultural documentation such as archives, databases, texts, and inventories. Drawing on a close reading of cultural disputes over a single system of TMK—the classical South Asian medical tradition of Ayurveda—the paper traces so...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is very rich with the cultural heritage sites. These historical sites nowadays look quite different from their original appearance, as a lot of time has passed from the moment of their construction. In addition, some of them were seriously damaged or completely destroyed during the recent war. This paper presents our experience in the digitalization of Bosnian cultural he...

Following an overview of the historical context of copyright legislation, this paper discusses copyright within the scholarly communication process and the role of libraries in providing access to copyright materials in the digital age. The argument is made that the balance of “rights” and “exceptions” that has been maintained for 300 years needs to be reconsidered for scholarly communications,...

In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of an adaptive visualization platform effectively supporting Grid-enabled visualintensive applications such as mechanical CAD, medical, virtual heritage and etc across heterogeneous network of computing resources. In our preliminary design of the visualization platform, we choose to focus on the study of the adaptive strategies and caching...

Recent research has to a limited extent explored the nature of collaborative knowledge construction in 3D environments. In this paper we describe this issue by identifying two collaboration patterns that are manifested in the students’ dialogues and actions in a particular 3D learning environment. The theoretical framework is found within socio-cultural perspectives that view learning as social...

In this paper, we present a virtual heritage application called MHEX (Mobile Heritage Exploration for George Town) that provides a technologyintegrated environment that allows users to gain knowledge of various heritage sitesthrough gaming on mobile platform. With this application, everybody can learn about the significance of various heritage sites through a game that combines the games of mon...

Augmented reality is one of the emerging technologies to reconstruct the historical building and monument in the previous era, where the user experiences with the real environment or virtual scene. In education, Virtual Heritage becomes as a platform of learning, motivating and understanding of certain events and historical elements for the students and researchers. The significance of reconstr...