The inscription of World Heritage Status to both George Town and Melaka in 2008 had given tremendous impacts terms tourist arrivals the growth economy. While has pinned Malaysia on global tourism map, rapid pace development resulted a series problems brought by commodification. Tourism gentrification, outmigration change building uses are among common symptoms Taking as case study, this paper a...

In 2002, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the importance of the sustainability and the need of management plans for the safeguard of cultural heritage. No models, rules or specific definitions have been provided for this purpose. By 2014, UNESCO had recognized 16 rural landscapes as cultural heritage sites. This paper aims to understand th...

We introduce an online knowledge base for semantic representation and annotation of a world heritage site in danger. For this purpose we designed ontology inside the protégé tool with multiple metadata-based schemas to represent a knowledge base for heritage buildings and to annotate heterogeneous data sources. The ontology schema also references multiple bibliographies so it can gather the com...

Research into the sustainable management of world's cultural heritage (CH) is increasing. This due to vulnerability CH climate-related disasters and perceived contribution achievement broader sustainability goals. Despite benefits bringing together sustainability, researchers have identified barriers that slow integration. These are theoretical practical, targeted research would help improve re...

This paper presents a mobile phone application developed for sightseeing in Nikko, one of the cultural world heritages in Japan, using the BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacon. Based on our pre-research, we decided to design our application for young people who walk around the area actively, but know little about the tradition and culture of Nikko. One solution is to construct many information boa...

117 As Head points out, “the cultural heritage sector uses the classical geographical sense of landscapes as modified by human activity, with an emphasis on ancient monuments and historical buildings.” In other words, cultural landscape heritage is generally approached in terms of material or morphological artifacts that constitute culturally determined physical, and therefore visible, modifica...