Abstract There are a growing number of Information Communication Technology (ICT) applications in cultural heritage. However despite funding constraints, projects often involve similar or even duplicate work carried out at the same site. This emphasizes the need for an enterprise whose purpose is to coordinate research projects in this field. The EPOCH programme has been established to address ...

Traditionally considered lowbrow art par excellence, British comedy has grown steadily in legitimacy since the 'Alternative Comedy Movement' of the early 1980s. Yet while there might be evidence of a transformation in British comic production, there is little understanding of how this has been reflected in patterns of consumption. Indeed, there is a remarkable absence of studies probing comedy ...

General framework and new trends in cultural field The cultural statistics' production has always been founded on implicit cultural patterns which, in different ways, have drawed the analysis field and the related phenomena. The definiton of "culture" concept is an old problem and in its history we can find a lot of different approaches to it. The antropological reflection before and recently t...

The author investigated the importance of ethno cultural component in activities humanitarian specialists; it is emphasized that a multi-ethnic society, an specialists’ essential condition for their training. In context international cooperation, this contributes to establishment productive forms interaction, and business relations ensure effective partnership with foreign colleagues, etc. prof...