Online survey: The Nara Document on authenticity

The year 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Nara Document on Authenticity. Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs is planning a conference to celebrate this anniversary in October 2014.
ICOMOS Japan will cooperate with the Agency on this event. As part of the preparation, Prof. Toshiyuki Kono, a member of ICOMOS Japan and the Executive Committee, has taken the initiative to plan the conference. This is part the preparation for the 2014 ICOMOS General Assembly in Florence as well.

As an important step toward these meetings in 2014, an online survey on the Nara Document has been created in four languages. It can be found by clicking here. If you could complete this survey or forward this to your colleagues and friends, ICOMOS Japan would be very grateful. The submission deadline is January 15th, 2014.

Arches: new open source heritage inventory & management system

The GCI and World Monuments Fund have just released Arches version 1.0, a user-friendly, open source information management software system built specifically to help heritage organizations safeguard cultural heritage sites worldwide.

Find out more at archesproject.org



Source: GCI e-Bulletin: December 2013

World Heritage: New resources

The World Heritage Centre has made available new tools and documents: 

"Managing Cultural World Heritage" reference manual This manual provides guidance for States Parties and all those involved in the care of World Heritage cultural properties on how to comply with the requirements of the World Heritage Convention. It also aims to help States Parties to ensure that heritage has a dynamic role in society and harnesses, but also delivers to others, the mutual benefits that such a role can create. Free download from : http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1078/

"Celebrating 40 years of the World Heritage Convention" This electronic publication provides the vivid record of the three-day landmark event, which was organized jointly by the Government of Japan and UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in Kyoto, Japan, 6-8 November 2012. During the Closing Event, challenges the Convention faced in its early years as well as today's key issues in the World Heritage community, were discussed. Free download from http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1077/

And the new database, "State of Conservation of World Heritage properties".
State of Conservation (SOC): The very significant number of reports prepared by the UNESCO Secretariat and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee represents an exceptional and extensive documentation on various conservation issues. It is one of the most comprehensive monitoring systems of any international conventions, through a global network of sites.
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ICOMOS Open Archive Downloads Top 20 - September/October 2013

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Thank you for your participation: + 4827 downloads since August! 
Total downloads in September-October: 26832

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- Labesse, Olivier (2006) Précis d'utilisation des chaux naturelles hydrauliques = Accurate of use of the natural hydraulic lime. Other thesis, building Limes Forum. [Thesis]	5194
- Taylor, Ken (2008) Landscape and Memory: cultural landscapes, intangible values and some thoughts on Asia. In: 16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’, 29 sept – 4 oct 2008, Quebec, Canada. [Conference or Workshop Item]	1077
- Martinez Celis, Diego and Botiva Contreras, Alvaro (2004) Manual de arte rupestre de Cundinamarca (Colombia). Manual. ICANH- Gobernacion de Cundinamarca, Bogota. D.C., 60p. - ISBN 958-8181-07-0. [Book]	630
- Abdulac, Samir (2012) Les maisons à patio: Continuités historiques, adaptations bioclimatiques et morphologies urbaines. In: ICOMOS 17th General Assembly, 2011-11-27 / 2011-12-02, Paris, France. [Conference or Workshop Item]	541
- Réhabilitation et revitalisation urbaine à Oran. Conference Volume. CAATEEB, Barcelona , 143p. - ISBN 978 84 87104 06 0. [Book]	540
- Martinez Celis, Diego and Botiva Contreras, Alvaro (2011) Compendio documental del Parque Arqueológico de Facatativá. Insumo para su interpretación integral. Project Report. Diego Martínez Celis, Bogotá, 206p. [Book] (Unpublished)	540
- Jokilehto, Jukka (2008) The World Heritage List. What is OUV? Defining the Outstanding Universal Value of Cultural World Heritage Properties. Technical Report. hendrik Bäßler verlag, Berlin, 111p. Monuments & Sites (2001-), Vol. XVI. ISBN 978-3-930388-51-6. [Book]	508
(2007) 1ère Conference Regionale Euro-Médierranéenne. Architecture traditionelle, méditerranéenne: présent et futur. Conference Volume. RehabiMed (CAATEEB), Barcelona , 655p. ISBN 84 87104 79 7. [Book]	492
- Bouchenaki, Mounir (2003) The interdependency of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In: 14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’, 27 – 31 oct 2003, Victoria Falls, - Zimbabwe. [Conference or Workshop Item]	476
- Argüello Garcia, Pedro María and Botiva Contreras, Alvaro (2003) El arte rupestre en Colombia. Significación, comunicación y patrimonio cultural. Revista La Tadeo (68). pp. 79-87. ISSN 0120-5250 [Article]	459
- Doehne Eric, Eric and Price, Clifford A. (2010) Stone conservation: An overview of current research. Technical Report. Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 158p. ISBN 978-1-60606-046-9. [Book]

Recently acquired by ICOMOS Documentation Centre

UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value

Dr. Sophia Labadi

This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO’s major documents, extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of case studies from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Sophia Labadi offers a nuanced discussion of the constitutive role of national understandings of a universalist framework. 

The discussion departs from considerations of the World Heritage Convention as Eurocentric and offers a more complex analysis of how official narratives relating to non-European and non-traditional heritage mark a subversion of a dominant and canonical European representation of heritage. It engages simultaneously with a diversity of discourses across the humanities and social sciences and with related theories pertaining not only to tangible and intangible heritage, conservation, and archaeology but also political science, social theory, tourism and development studies, economics, cultural, and gender studies. In doing so, it provides a critical review of many key concepts, including tourism, development, sustainability, intangible heritage, and authenticity.



Labadi, Sophia. UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value: value-based analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions. Lanham, Maryland, USA, AltaMira Press, 2013. (Archaeology in society series). Incl. bibl. and index. ISBN: 978-0-7591-2256-7

ICOMOS Open Archive Dowloads Top 20 - July/August 2013

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+ 1237 downloads In July and August! 
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Eprint	Fulltext Downloads
Labesse, Olivier (2006) Précis d'utilisation des chaux naturelles hydrauliques = Accurate of use of the natural hydraulic lime. Other thesis, building Limes Forum. [Thesis]	4621
Taylor, Ken (2008) Landscape and Memory: cultural landscapes, intangible values and some thoughts on Asia. In: 16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’, 29 sept – 4 oct 2008, Quebec, Canada. [Conference or Workshop Item]	534
Argüello Garcia, Pedro María and Botiva Contreras, Alvaro (2003) El arte rupestre en Colombia. Significación, comunicación y patrimonio cultural. Revista La Tadeo (68). pp. 79-87. ISSN 0120-5250 [Article]

ICOMOS Open Archive Dowloads Top Twenty - June 2013

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Eprint	Fulltext Downloads
Labesse, Olivier (2006) Précis d'utilisation des chaux naturelles hydrauliques = Accurate of use of the natural hydraulic lime. Other thesis, building Limes Forum. [Thesis]	1572
Taylor, Ken (2008) Landscape and Memory: cultural landscapes, intangible values and some thoughts on Asia. In: 16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’, 29 sept – 4 oct 2008, Quebec, Canada. [Conference or Workshop Item]	301
Martinez Celis, Diego and Botiva Contreras, Alvaro (2004) Manual de arte rupestre de Cundinamarca (Colombia). Manual. ICANH- Gobernacion de Cundinamarca, Bogota. D.C., 60p. ISBN 958-8181-07-0. [Book]	231
Jokilehto, Jukka (2008) The World Heritage List. What is OUV? Defining the Outstanding Universal Value of Cultural World Heritage Properties. Technical Report. hendrik Bäßler verlag, Berlin, 111p. Monuments & Sites (2001-), Vol. XVI. ISBN 978-3-930388-51-6. [Book]	195
Bouchenaki, Mounir (2003) The interdependency of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In: 14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’, 27 – 31 oct 2003, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. [Conference or Workshop Item]