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Nowadays 3D virtual models of heritage sites and objects are very much requested and required in many applications, like the digital documentation and conservation, virtual restoration, physical replicas, visualization and animation, etc. This paper, after a brief review of the currently available reality-based techniques to digitally reconstruct objects and sites, addresses the issue of data p...

The complex issues of conservation, politics, tourism management and ownership have emerged as critical issues within the World Heritage debate and specifically within heritage tourism research. Within this context, this article focuses on issues of ownership and belonging and argues that there exists a link between the conceptual inconsistencies inherent in the World Heritage idea and the tens...

COST stands for Cooperation in Science and Technology and is the longest running network funding organisation in Europe. Within the COST networks, Action D42 is dedicated to the role of the indoor environment on the behaviour of the materials present in archives, libraries and museums. Under storage, use and or exhibition. The indoor environment consists of many components able to deteriorate o...

Egypt has a countless heritage of mansions, castles, cities, towns, villages, industrial and manufacturing sites. This richness of heritage provides endless and matchless prospects for culture. Despite being famous worldwide, Egypt’s heritage still is in constant need of protection. Political conflicts and religious revolutions form a direct threat to buildings in various areas, historic, archa...

Collecting of animals from their habitats for preservation by museums and related bodies is a core operation of such institutions. Conservation of biodiversity in the current era is a priority in the scientific agendas of museums of natural heritage in Australia and the world. Intuitively, to take animals from the wild, while engaged in scientific or other practices that are supposed to promote...