4.17.2012

18 April 2012 - Celebrate!

Happy International Day for Monuments and Sites!

In 2012 we celebrate the "World Heritage".

World Heritage site of Yungang caves, China - cop. John Roberts

→ Download the article presenting this year's theme by Alfredo Conti, Chair ICOMOS World Heritage Working Group: [English] - [Français] - [Español]

Learn more about events and celebrations all over the World on ICOMOS' website

4.05.2012

E-conservation n°23, March 2012


Issue No. 23, March 2012 of e-conservation

magazine is now online and available for free download! Click here to download the whole issue


Index

EDITORIAL

On Disinvestment of Cultural Heritage

By Rui Bordalo

NEWS & VIEWS

A Decade of Disorder: Conservation and the Digital Revolution
By Daniel Cull

Pragmatism and Compromise in Conservation
By Peter D. Verheyen

News on e-conservation magazine
By Rui Bordalo

Urban Conservation in High Asia. The work of André Alexander and Tibet Heritage Fund
By Pimpim de Azevedo and Yutaka Hirako

REVIEWS

Faces of Memory: the Newest Technology of Preservation and Restoration of Hand-Written and Printed Heritage
Review by Tatyana Krupa

Back to the Roots - Workshop on Textile Dyeing with Natural Dyes
Review by Anna Karatzani

XTACH 2011
International Conference on the Use of X-ray (and related) Techniques in Arts and Cultural Heritage

Review by Mark Beech

ARTICLES

Boxes for the Housing and Protection of Books: Observations on their History and Development

By Gianlorenzo Pignatti

Lining, Relining and the Concept of Univocity

By Cecil Krarup Andersen

Salt Damage on the Wall Reliefs of Dendera Temple, Egypt
By Hesham Abbas Kamally

Security of Cultural Property: U.S. Engagement and Potential for Improvement
By Erik Nemeth



CASE STUDY
First Aid of Rare Ptolemaic Textile in Tuna el-Gebel Excavation, Egypt

By Harby E. Ahmed

4.02.2012

New website: The Australian Historic Shipwreck Protection Project







The Australian Historic Shipwreck Protection Project (AHSPP) website is now available at the link below.

AHSPP website

2.17.2012

Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database

the Winter 2012 update of the Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database is currently available for open access at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/rockart.html through generosity of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, in cooperation with the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association.

The current on-line revision contains over 22,000 citations to the world's rock art literature.

2.09.2012

The ICOMOS Documentation Centre will be exceptionally closed from 20/02 until 02/04/2012

Theory and Landscape: Reflections from Interdisciplinary perspectives


The Landscape Observatory publishes Theory and landscape: reflections from multidisciplinary perspectives

The book, co-edited with Pompeu Fabra University, has been published exclusively in digital format

The Landscape Observatory recently published the book Theory and landscape: reflections from multidisciplinary perspectives. Co-edited with Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), it is a compilation of presentations given in the seminar of the same name in February 2010 for the Humanities Department of said university. The different chapters can be consulted on the Landscape Observatory’s website. They apply a multidisciplinary focus to methodological and epistemological questions regarding the landscape concept.

http://www.catpaisatge.net/eng/documentacio_coedi_2.php

The Urban Rehabilitation of the Medinas: The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa, September 2011

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Table of contents:
Foreword
1. Summary
2. Significance and decay of medinas in the Arab world
3. Defining contemporary medina users
4. Objectives of medina rehabilitation
5. Winners and losers in medina rehabilitation
6. Roles of the public, private, and non-profit sectors
7. Institutional framework and urban management
8. Urban planning and property titling
9. Cultural preservation, public space, and infrastructure upgrading
10. Pro-poor housing and welfare programs
11. Fiscal and financial mechanisms to promote private investments
12. Cultural tourism and the Medina Tourism Potential Index
References