WILLIAMS, A.T., SELLERS, V., and PHILIPS, M.R. 2007. An Assessment of UK Heritage Coasts in South Wales: J A Steers revisited. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50 (Proceedings of the 9th International Coastal Symposium), 453 – 458. Gold Coast, Australia, ISBN 0749.0208 Much of the South Wales, UK coastline is designated as Heritage Coasts, based upon coastal scenic evaluations conducted in 1944-...

The aim of this paper is to identify the possible determinants that influence user satisfaction in the context of digital cultural heritage (DCH) online collections. The data was collected in 3 stages. For the first stage, literature studies were conducted in understanding the general overview about user satisfaction in various web-domains. Next, think-aloud protocol was conducted with a group ...

Current museum metadata tends to be focused around the properties of the heritage object such as the artist, style and date of creation. This form of metadata can index a museum’s collection but cannot express the relations between heritage objects and related concepts found in contemporary museum exhibitions. A modern museum exhibition, rather than providing a taxonomic classification of herit...

Traditionally, 3D acquisition technologies have been used to record heritage artefacts and to support specific tasks such as conservation or provenance verification. These exercises are usually a one-off as the technology and resources required are cost intensive. However, there is a recent impetus on the creation of 3D collections to document heritage artefacts which are semantically enriched ...

At present, lots of South Eastern countries are definitely going through a period of growth which is not only economic, but also cultural and social. Therefore, in the field of the cultural heritage restoration, it’s very important to develop means and technologies able to speed up the cataloguing and the knowledge of “heritage cities” and architectural goods, which are often unknown or abandon...

This paper presents the initial outcomes of a key scoping study undertaken to explore the role of augmented reality and motion detecting technologies in the context of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for museums related environments. Initial prototypes are in the form of an interactive infrared camera based application for children to engage with an Aboriginal puppet. This scoping study is u...

The project “Georeferencing of Architectural Heritage” is part of a larger Regional Program of Development that provides the carrying out of the management aim “Achievement and optimization of the Informative System of Lombardia for the Risk Chart of Cultural Heritage”. The project aims to build, as pointed out in laws, the co-ordination of activities and specific competences that are necessary...

This paper presents a new emerging knowledge and professional field for the design research processes and design practice, which is Cultural Heritage Valorisation, focusing, as paradigmatic case study, on the valorisation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of territories and local communities. The Intangible Cultural Heritage documentation and transmission is socially relevant and, due to its ...

The rise in African American heritage tourism to the castles has produced an abundance of scholarly books and articles. These works often try to place African American tourism to Ghana in the context of global heritage tourism or the Black Atlantic. Most of these works are anthropological, covering the sometimes volatile encounter between African Americans and Ghanaians at the castles. These et...

Should the practice of the historic preservation of built and landscape heritage necessarily be based on conservation? Monuments, listed buildings, landscapes, and other forms of built heritage, are typically regarded as immutable and untouchable—objects to be “conserved”—and as a result tend to fade from public imagination and memory (Rietveld et al., 2017). Current conservative preservation p...