Masha Vukanovic (Center for study in cultural development, Belgrade, Serbia) Manner in which heritage is presented to wider audience makes it dead or alive. Heritage is not dead by default and we are all very aware of such fact. However, sometimes we forget that heritage that we research and work upon does not exist only for the sake of our scientific satisfaction. My topic is the City. Cities that we visit make impressions that we do or do not forget. Intention of this paper is to show on particular case study how City of Belgrade makes itself unforgettable. Belgrade is old town. Celtic tribes founded fortification named Singidunum in 4th century BC. 13 centuries after (878 AD) Slavic name of the town Bjeligrad was recorded in written sources for the first time. Fact that Belgrade was constantly devastated (averagely on every 37 years) makes the task of keeping cultural continuum a bit harder comparing with other cities such is for example Vienna. Despite Belgrade’s long and turbulent history I shall limit myself on reasonably “new” part of the city in order to show how combining heritage and ambience depictures spirit of the city in unforgettable way. Reason for such choice lies on the fact that archeology and history tell the story about Belgrade’s ups and downs, conquerors and defenders, but how fatiguing it might sound when one realizes that it happened so frequently. Yet spirit of Belgrade is still very alive and actually unforgettable. One among major attractions of the city is its bohemian quarter. Place where best times are at night-time provides vividness that reasonably gloomy past could never promise. Therefore, point that I’m trying to make is showing that heritage, when vividly fitted in environment and even more vividly presented, make whole new experience fulfilling for both mass populous and...

Oleg Missikoff1 / Stefano Lariccia2 (1LUISS University of Rome / 2La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) The COTEC Foundation, has promoted a project concerning the publication of a book on innovation in the heritage domain. As a relevant share of the text describes digital technologies applied to cultural heritage, it has been decided to create a web extension of the book for allowing readers to access multimedia contents. For reaching this goal the team working on this project has used a knowledge based, open source content management system called Plone. The aim of the researchers working on this project, named Patrimonio Digitale (Digital Heritage, web site: http://www.patrimoniodigitale.it), was to create a knowledge repository that could help both general purpose users, as well as domain experts, finding knowledge on cultural heritage in the easiest possible way: allowing searches based on key words. According to this vision, the backbone of the site is represented by a thesaurus (to be soon upgraded to an ontology) where each term is concisely defined but points, through a hyperlink, to a new page where the term is defined more extensively. The “term page” constitutes a hub from which it is possible to deepen any aspect related to a term: scientific material, enterprises operating in that area, projects, best practices, multimedia contents, and so forth. This approach should facilitate the searches of any kind of user, no matter what they are looking for. The chosen platform can also provide e-learning functionalities: in this context, some experimental features will be tested, such as innovative tools, good practices and methodologies adopted today for “distance learning”...

Frank G. Kurzhals (Plean GmbH, Germany) Städte und Regionen stehen im Wettbewerb — um Einwohner, Touristen, Wissenschaftler und Studenten, Fachkräfte und Investoren. Mit “harten” Faktoren wie Infrastruktur und Gewerbeflächen allein schafft es kaum eine Stadt oder Region, langfristig interessant zu sein. Wenn es also darum geht, ein glaubwürdiges und zielgruppenspezifisches Profil zu schaffen, sind Elemente wie Kultur, Lebensqualität und Natur wichtig. Gerade die Kultur mit ihren vielen Facetten kann wesentlich dazu beitragen, dass eine Region ganz spezifisch wahrgenommen...

Zoltán Gyalókay (Poland) The Art Historian Information from Central Europe (AHICE) web service was created at the International Cultural Centre in Cracow in January 2004 following a year of preparations. The purpose of the project was to streamline communication on events relating to the protection, promotion and exploration of cultural heritage in the countries of the Visegrad Group. Consequently, the prime focus of the AHICE service is on exhibitions, conferences and publications devoted to old and contemporary art of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. This experience inspired the idea to set up a ‘signpost’ directing one to the source of cultural events, i.e. the sites of organisers. We managed to find three partners willing to take on the task of coordinating the project locally. Having a good knowledge of the local cultural environment our partners have a very important role to play: not only do they clarify the mechanics of the service but also explain the ideas behind the project, support the information sharing process and, finally, promote the service to its potential users. By submitting details of their projects, partner institutions contribute to the editing of the site. Once registered, an institution receives a password that gives access to the administration panel, where brief information is entered, most importantly the web address. The AHICE service has become one of the tools for finding one’s way through the hundreds of art and science events in Central Europe. Since 2004, 118 institutions have joined us and over 1500 news items have been published. Institutional partners of the AHICE are: National Office of Cultural Heritage (Hungary), the Moravian Gallery in Brno (the Czech Republic), and the Faculty of Art History of the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia). Please find AHICE on...

Burak Belge (Middle East Technical University, Department of City and Regional Planning, Ankara, Turkey) In Turkey, the majority of the historic city centres have been continuously occupied since early ages onwards and where still occupation exists. However, the recent policies and strategies don’t allow the handling of urban archaeological resources, especially invisible sub-soil resources, into planning and decision-making process. The study aims to define a simple methodological framework to integrate the urban archaeological resources – especially sub-soil sources- into the planning and decision-making processes. An ideal Urban Archaeological Database (UAD) is defined as a technological facility to make spatial analyses by archaeological and historical datasets in various formats. Then, primary and secondary sources of information in UAD are defined according to their reliability. In this defined context, how UAD can be used to define the Ideal Archaeological Potential, theoretically meaning probable archaeological resources without any destruction, is explained step by step. Then, equi-property areas, where the same urban archaeological layers overlay, are defined as the sub-units of ideal archaeological potential. After that, the evaluation methods of the mass destruction by modern construction methods or partial destruction by re-use and disasters on urban archaeological resources are defined. After that, the evaluation of past and recent planning policies and conservation decisions are defined as the necessity for determining the real archaeological potential. The real urban archaeological potential is defined as an output of the aforementioned steps. The probable characteristics of the evaluated potential are determined as unclear crucial subjects. The real problem can be seen as the determination of spatial diffusion of the urban archaeological resources underneath the cities. Certain problems as well as the archaeological potential concentrate on urban archaeological character zones (UACZ), which are described as the basic units of planning and conservation policies, have been described for the management of urban archaeological resources. Keywords: Ideal and Real Urban Archaeological Potential, Multi-layered Historic City Centres, Equi-property Areas, Urban Archaeological Character...

Chair: Masha Vukanovic Tourism as a way to learn about self and others also provide outline for discussing usage of cultural heritage. Eventually, during the year, regardless of profession or education, each and every one of us likes to have some vacation time. How do we make our choices of destinations? Once when we get to our destination, what we’re going to do except wandering around, skiing or swimming? While wandering around what do we discover? Culture? Heritage? Sites where popular films (Troy, Alexander…) were filmed? Question is: where are archeologists, anthropologists, ethnologists, historians of art, etc in the process of “tour preparations”? Goal of this session is to present good practice experiences from all over the globe and also to try to remind scientific public what is their task. Intention of this sub-session is not to preach that every single archeologist, anthropologist, historian of art, etc., should put efforts in popularization of science and heritage or that scientific criteria should degrade in order to be understandable for average man/woman/child. Intention is to show that scientific and popular could work together for mutual benefits. Applications of sciences as well as usage of media and new technologies should not be seen as “making science impure” thing neither as pure scientific means. Important issue is how to overcome uneasiness which commercialization of heritage brings and remember why we are doing what we are doing and for whom we collect everything we collect. Do we collect it so it can rotten in archives or we can actually present it to...