Category: Patreon
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Patrimonializarte: ✓heritage education, ✓new tech, ✓ planning
Patrimonializarte is an educational program teaching local heritage with new technologies, that run in the past years in Spain. The program included tools for infants, primary and secondary school children from two districts. The activities themselves are appealing to teachers and students alike the emphasis of the project lies within its methodology and evaluation. ©La…
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Antarctica’s cultural heritage
The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) conserves the cultural heritage of Antarctica. The efforts of the AAD is to understand the present through our past. They collect tangible, intangible and documentary heritage and host the Antarctic artefacts database. Antarctica is to this day one of the most remote regions on earth. Since Captain Cook’s approach in…
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Smart Heritage: is your city really smart?
Smart Heritage is the phrase coined for including heritage in the Smart City policies. Currently, Smart City policy and strategy focus primarily on using information technologies and reducing environmental impact. While there are around 120 indicators for Smart Cities, none integrate heritage policy. (If you are unaware of what are Smart Cities, have a look…
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InTaVia: one access to heritage
InTaVia, or In/Tangible European Heritage – Visual Analysis, Curation and Communication, aims to contextualise digitised tangible heritage with its intangible history. The project started in November 2020 and with European funding universities from Austria, Netherlands, Slovenia, Finland, Denmark and Germany coordinate to advance the project. In a nutshell, InTaVia will host an information platform where…
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Curated Reading List: January 2021
One month down for 2021!One month down for 2021! Your Curated Reading List for January is here, check them out and send us which article was your favourite. Commission sets up a Centre for digital preservation of cultural heritage and launches projects supporting digital innovation in schools. Read Article here. What Is the Future of…
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How to use Drones in Heritage Management
Historic England published an article on Drones for Heritage Uses, that can serve as a guide to how and why use drones in heritage management. Drones are widely available to the public, and while their use is regulated in various degrees internationally, they can be a valuable and relatively cost effective tool for heritage. This…
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Local management and archaeology: a case from Thailand
Thai local community work together with archaeologists to protect a heritage site. The community living in Lopburi near Ban Phromthin Tai are meaningfully involved, since 2004, with the excavation and interpretation of the iron age site. Alongside archaeologists, the community forms a collaborative project were scientific and local values have equal standing. The Ministry of…
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inSIGHT: play and manage heritage together!
inSIGHT is a tabletop game that increases disaster risk awareness and action in local communities, by ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property). During 2020, museums and cultural heritage sites suffered issues from natural disasters, to looting and funding cuts. We stated many times in our articles during…
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Software Heritage
When we think of heritage, we often imagine sculptures, stone tablets, archaeological sites or in general something old and historical; but what is now commonplace in our culture is our future cultural heritage. Technology grows exponentially since the last century, with software a big part of it. We create and understand the software in source…
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The Met Unframed: Don’t miss out!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, just launched The Met Unframed, an online digital gallery and augmented reality (AR) games. Using your phone or any 4G-5G smart device, you can visit the museum and explore 50 works of art in its galleries. This virtual visit is available for free for 5-weeks so don’t miss…