scholarly journals Preliminary observations on the use of low temperatures in the cultural heritage protection

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Reguzzi ◽  
S. Gariboldi ◽  
E. Chiappini
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Total Mortality ◽  
Physical Method ◽  
Petri Dish ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects ◽  
Temperature Optima

Each insect species has different temperature optima: the more this parameter deviates from these values the more the insect suffers negative consequences, up to the death. Temperature can be easily editable. Therefore, the application of low temperatures may represent a physical method for the protection of valuable cultural objects, alternative, for example, to chemical ones. In this paper we report laboratory tests results, carried out on <em>Trogoderma inclusum</em> LeConte (Coleoptera: Dermestidae), a species harmful to leather items such as bindings of books and mummies, in order to reach its control by applying low temperatures. The tests were conducted using specimens obtained from laboratorybreeding blocks maintained at 27 &plusmn; 2&deg;C and 75 &plusmn; 5% R.H., in a temperaturecontrolled room of the Institute of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Piacenza. The aim of the tests was to determine the time necessary to obtain the total mortality of the different instars of development at temperatures of -10&deg;C and -20&deg;C. The insects, in the various instars of development of egg, larva, pupa and adult, were treated with low temperatures in two different ways: - inserting the Petri dishes containing the insects directly in the freezer without any protection, in order to obtain an immediate lowering of the temperature, and - inserting the Petri dish in a niche carved in an old book so that the lowering of the temperature is gradual. In some cases the insects were kept at +4&deg;C for a time before the test to determine whether exposure to low temperature before treatment could induce a resistance to it. The results show that the method can be validly applied for cultural heritage objects protection, attacked by the species concerned.

scholarly journals POLITIK HUKUM CAGAR BUDAYA DALAM PERLINDUNGAN IDENTITAS BANGSA INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 470-492
Author(s):  
Hafidz Putra Arifin
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
The Government ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects

The 1945 Constitution contain a ruling obligating the government to protect and preserve all cultural objects, manifestation of the nation’s culture, as cultural heritage.  It is conceded that the political will as reflected in regulations made from time to time on the protection of the nation’s cultural heritage are oriented towards preservation of the Indonesian identity and furthering social welfare. In reality however, cultural heritage objects are vulnerable to looting, willful destruction or lack of care. Using a juridical normative method, the author shall examine existing rules and regulation regarding protection of cultural heritage.  One important finding from this research is that low quality of cultural heritage protection is the result of low societal understanding of the importance of cultural heritage in the making of the national identity.

Regional Seminar on the Protection and Safeguard of the Church's Cultural Heritage Objects Held in Mexico City September 29—October 1 2009

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-418
Author(s):  
Jorge A. Sánchez Cordero
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Regional Seminar ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects ◽  
Illicit Trafficking

As an UNESCO initiative, Mexico was chosen as the country to host a seminar about the illicit trafficking of religious cultural objects. This problem is severe in the region and the idea was received with great enthusiasm by all.

scholarly journals The Changing Tide of Title to Cultural Heritage Objects in UK Museums

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 229-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Woodhead
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Select Committee ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Moral Claims ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Nazi Era ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects

Abstract:UK museums are required to present themselves as the ethical guardians rather than simply the owners of their collections (Museums Association Code of Ethics principles 1.0 and 1.3). Museums which are members of the International Council of Museums are required, when acquiring objects for their collections, to ensure that they obtain valid title, rather than simply strict legal title, to the object (ICOM Code of Ethics, principle 2.2). This notion of valid title focuses on the relationship between the current possessor (the museum) and the object. However, one can also see the concept of claimants having moral claims to cultural heritage objects developing in the context of the notion of the “rightful owner” which is a term increasingly deployed to signify the person who has a valid moral, rather than legal, claim to the cultural heritage object (Seventh Report of the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee 1999-2000 [193]).Since 2000 the UK has introduced mechanisms to resolve, in limited circumstances, moral claims to cultural objects of which their owners were dispossessed during the Nazi era. This paper analyses the way in which a concept of moral title can be seen to have developed in the context of the resolution of Nazi era claims by the UK’s Spoliation Advisory Panel. To this end the paper analyses: how far the moral entitlement is linked with the legal title to the object; and whether moral title arises from the morally abhorrent dispossession that befell the claimant or his ancestor or whether it results from the recommendation of the Spoliation Advisory Panel. It is argued that the development of the notion of moral title poses challenges for the future, but an understanding of its role may also inform the resolution of disputes involving cultural heritage objects outside the context of the Nazi era.

scholarly journals Book Review: Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, Discovery, and Retrieval

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Anne Washington
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects

Over the past twenty years, libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions have made hundreds of thousands of digitized and born digital cultural heritage objects available online. This momentum is not likely to slow anytime soon. Digitization programs continue to convert analog media, and efforts are ramping up to procure and preserve born digital material. While discussion of technical specifications and skills to support these processes are critical, there is a growing body of research beyond these topics. Some scholars and practitioners have turned their attention towards theory, assessment, and innovative analysis and Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, Discovery, and Retrieval adds to this conversation.

scholarly journals SECURITY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OBJECTS ON THE EXAMPLE OF HOSPITAL COMPLEX OF SAINT-PETERSBURG

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
A. V. MIKHAILOV
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Flexible System ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects ◽  
Urban Characteristics ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

The paper concerns the preservation of the cultural heritage objects and their adaptation to modern usage which highly depends on their unique properties and the adaption process. Research into and systematization of the cultural heritage are necessary to create a flexible system of adaptation and preservation specificity of the cultural heritage and ensure the sustainable development in this field. The purpose this work is to systematize the existing cultural heritage objects, analyze their components, and classify according their types. The typology of the main characteristics of cultural heritage objects is based on these data to propose a hypothesis of the components to be protected for each type of cultural objects. The paper concern is the definition of the components to be protected in accordance with the current legislation on the cultural heritage preservation, such as a hospital complex in Saint-Petersburg. The hospital complex infrastructure includes administrative buildings, prosecutorial, mortuary, pharmacies, apartments for doctors, poorhouses. Their spatial structure and architecture composition reflect their specific functions on the one hand, and esthetic, architectural and urban characteristics on the other. The analysis is given to the publications on this issue and the integrated systematization of the components to be protected is proposed, including more or less problematic aspects, such as urban planning and intangible dimensions. The hospital complex components are proposed for the protection taking into account their characteristics, location in the urban environment, compositional components, visual directions and intangible characteristics.

scholarly journals Basic stages of history of the underground gethsemane garden monastery in the context of monument protection

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (27) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Oleksii Prysiazhniuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects ◽  
Formal Procedures

This research examines and identifies the main stages of the history of an underground monastery in the Gethsemane Garden, from the appearance of the object to the status of a cultural heritage monument. The author draws conclusions about the legal norms enshrined in the regulations that form a system of requirements for procedural actions that turn a cultural heritage object into a monument. The article describes the legal acts that regulate the field of cultural heritage protection and directly influence the process of institutionalization of cultural heritage objects. The process of institutionalization of a monument selected as an example is considered against the background of the history of the object itself in the context of important historical events and historiography of its study. Turning cultural heritage into a monument that is governed by regulations in modern conservation legislation is a complex process. Examples of completing formal procedures and obtaining cultural heritage status are monuments. That is why the author, on the example of cultural heritage – monuments of history, architecture of the underground monastery in the tract «Gethsemane Garden» describes the process of institutionalization of such objects. The institutionalization of cultural heritage means the process of defining and consolidating legal norms, rules, statuses, bringing them into a system capable of acting in the direction of satisfying the need of modern society for the preservation of cultural heritage objects.

scholarly journals IDENTIFICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF GOOD PRACTICES IN THE SAFEGUARDING AND VALORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE BY LOCAL PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

Akademos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Vasile Comendant ◽  
◽  
Tatiana Comendant ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects

This study provides a complex analysis concerning the identification of good practices in the safeguarding and valorization of the national cultural heritage by the local public authorities. The sociological survey was conducted between August and September 2020, on a representative sample of 607 people from 12 localities of the Republic of Moldova. The analysis of the processed data shows that the local public authorities have insufficient budgets to conserve, maintain or promote the cultural heritage objects and that there is a major shortage of specialists in this field. As a result, according to the respondents’ opinion, the level of safeguarding and valorization by the local public administration authorities of cultural objects of historical or architectural value is 18.78%. The significance of the objects of the national cultural heritage in the respective localities, the historical value and the extent to which they are known by the citizens were investigated. The role of cultural heritage in the education of citizens was highlighted by systematizing the knowledge about the national and universal cultural heritage.

PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFICATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OBJECTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
SVETLANA IVANOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Cultural Inheritance ◽  
Federal Laws ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects ◽  
Cultural Monuments

The purpose of the research work is to analyze the norms of Federal laws, as well as the laws of the Russian Federation's constituent entities, devoted to the definitions and classification of the concepts “cultural heritage”, “historical and cultural monuments”, “cultural values”. Conclusions obtained in the course of the research: based on the study of current legislation, it is concluded that the definitions of “cultural values”, “cultural property”, “objects of cultural inheritance” contained in various normative legal acts differ in content. Based on the research, the author proposes the concept of “cultural values”.

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