A list of web-based resources and references on current and emerging research on preventive conservation and sustainability for stewards of cultural property
Re-inventory-ing Heritage in Contested Cross Border Contexts: Introducing the...RCAHMW
Dr Andrew McClelland: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Maynooth University & Prof Mark Boyle, Professor of Geography and national contact point for URBACT, Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Maynooth University
The presentation will introduce a recently begun EU-funded research project at Maynooth University focused on the challenges pertaining to the management of cultural heritage in contested cross-border contexts – ‘Re-inventory-ing Heritage: Exploring the potential of public participation GIS to capture heritage values and dissonance’ (REINVENT).
The REINVENT project engages with participatory practices and the application of digital mapping technologies to capture a plurality of heritage values ascribed by a range of communities at different spatial scales, with the cross-border cultural landscape of Derry - Londonderry in the north west of Ireland providing the principal case study focus. More specifically, the project seeks to develop a Public Participation GIS (PPGIS)-based methodology and mapping tool to capture a plurality of ‘unofficial’ heritage values, including those associated with expressions of ‘dissonance’ and contestation. It is intended that the knowledge generated in the project will be embedded within local cultural heritage management and planning networks.
Ayr Library, University of the West of Scotland and SRUC PPTsconul
Presentation and Q&A with a focus on partnership working in planning the new building.
Neal Buchanan, Campus Librarian (Ayr), University of the West of Scotland
Taylor, Jim. 2023. ASPnet: Enabling change through network learning. Presentation given during the UNESCO ASPnet Conference 2023, Berlin, Germany. June 6-8, 2023.
Re-inventory-ing Heritage in Contested Cross Border Contexts: Introducing the...RCAHMW
Dr Andrew McClelland: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Maynooth University & Prof Mark Boyle, Professor of Geography and national contact point for URBACT, Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Maynooth University
The presentation will introduce a recently begun EU-funded research project at Maynooth University focused on the challenges pertaining to the management of cultural heritage in contested cross-border contexts – ‘Re-inventory-ing Heritage: Exploring the potential of public participation GIS to capture heritage values and dissonance’ (REINVENT).
The REINVENT project engages with participatory practices and the application of digital mapping technologies to capture a plurality of heritage values ascribed by a range of communities at different spatial scales, with the cross-border cultural landscape of Derry - Londonderry in the north west of Ireland providing the principal case study focus. More specifically, the project seeks to develop a Public Participation GIS (PPGIS)-based methodology and mapping tool to capture a plurality of ‘unofficial’ heritage values, including those associated with expressions of ‘dissonance’ and contestation. It is intended that the knowledge generated in the project will be embedded within local cultural heritage management and planning networks.
Ayr Library, University of the West of Scotland and SRUC PPTsconul
Presentation and Q&A with a focus on partnership working in planning the new building.
Neal Buchanan, Campus Librarian (Ayr), University of the West of Scotland
Taylor, Jim. 2023. ASPnet: Enabling change through network learning. Presentation given during the UNESCO ASPnet Conference 2023, Berlin, Germany. June 6-8, 2023.
Presentation provided at the SIDS BBNJ workshop 7-9 March 2017, Oostende, Belgium. Note there are 2 movies in this presentation which are not visible here.
One movie is posted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjspMw8sVMw
A presentation conducted by Ms Maria Rashidi, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong.
Presented on Wednesday the 2nd of October 2013.
The maintenance of bridges as a key element in transportation infrastructure has become a major concern due to increasing traffic volumes, deterioration of existing bridges and well-publicised bridge failures. The main goal of this study is to develop a requirements-driven decision support methodology for remediation of concrete bridges with the aim of maintaining bridge assets within acceptable limits of safety, serviceability and sustainability.The proposed model includes two phases:
Phase one is focused on condition assessment and priority ranking of bridge projects which makes use of an integrated priority index addressing a variety of factors. Phase two includes a multi criteria decision making technique which is able to select the best remediation strategy at both project and network level. The modified Simple Multi Attribute Rating Technique (SMART) is used as a decision analysis tool that employs the eigenvector approach of the Analytical Hierarchy
Process (AHP) for criteria weighting
As the COP28 continues, a panel discussion will held by the UNDP Buthan ahead of International Mountain Day, we take you to Lunana, one of the highest human settlements on earth. Home to 3 of Buthan’s 17 high risk glacial lakes, Lunana lives in constant fear of GLOF as glaciers melt fast. What actions we need to develop to reduce fthe impacts of Climate change on mountains water ecosystems.
Design principles for intelligent research investmentriel-presents
A content-rich celebration of an important knowledge legacy
An opportunity to reflect, and to distil key lessons and insights:
- about important knowledge gaps that remain
- about how best to fill such knowledge gaps
A ‘message in a bottle’ for future research investment
Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural and genetic Resources Commons.
12-14th September 2012
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
The 1st Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons aims to bring together leading people from a number of international scientific research communities, social science researchers, practitioners and policy analysts, to discuss the rationale and practical feasibility of institutional arrangements designed to emulate key public domain conditions for collaborative research.
We created a scenario where Scientists discovered a cure for the AIDS virus from the Cumberland Plain Land Snail of Western Sydney. Unfortunately the destruction of this ecosystem has led to its extinction. This presentation offers solutions to preserve the biodiversity of this region.
Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (ESTC) (http://www.ecotourismconference.org/) presentation by Todd Ballantine, Director of Science, Education and Sustainability, Ballantine Environmental Resources, Inc., presented in September 2011. Organized by The International Ecotourism Society (http://www.ecotourism.org), the ESTC is a unique annual conference providing practical solutions to advance sustainability goals for the tourism industry.
Lightning Talk by Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA at the RSA Scaling for impact event 1 February 2016.
https://www.thersa.org/events/fellowship-events/2016/2/rsa-engage-scaling-for-impact----1-feb/
My journey to provide and scale support to city regions to meet Global Goals by 2030
In 2008 I was working in Arup, heading up their global planning business with a world class team of transport, environmental, urban and policy and economics experts. Before that I had worked in infrastructure design and delivery, particularly Public Private Partnerships, around the World and I was also an adviser to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone on his Sustainable Development Commission and so I was very aware of the challenges of achieving improved city resilience.
My team at Arup was working at the cutting edge of low carbon sustainable city planning worldwide, particularly in China. It was there I got very inspired by their vision of an ecological civilisation, living in harmony with nature, as the next phase of development after the industrial model. However getting the plans built everywhere we worked was very difficult because success still revolved around GDP growth and that was the metric decision making. We knew that this was damaging the health of land and ocean ecology, and human well-being was not necessarily improving as a result, but everyone thought that this was the “price of progress”. Development was becoming less inclusive in many more developed countries as well.
I was given the opportunity to develop and articulate a roadmap towards a more resilient Ecological Age in the 2008-9 Brunel Lecture sponsored by Institution of Civil Engineers in London.
I gave this presentation all over the world in 45 cities in 2008-9, and the feedback was very positive, but many were skeptical that a more resilient Ecological Age could be delivered. The financial crash did not help the mood. It was very clear that the disconnect between investment decision making and the community social/ecological system impact at global and local scales was a huge problem. We did not have the tools and understanding of how human and ecology systems and resource flows interact and how this affects investment and health-productivity risks. It was clear to most people that city regions would be critical in determining a successful outcome for humanity by 2050, because of the projected urbanisation and the resulting investment drawn into those locations. The analysis showed that we had to embrace a factor 4 reduction in pollution and resource consumption, including greenhouse gas emissions, by 2050 both in retrofitting existing city regions and in the model for new urbanisation, if a successful outcome was to be achieved...
http://resilience.io/about/rsa-scaling-for-impact/
Ensuring that an organisation's digital assets are safe, secure and accessible for the long term should (in theory) be an interesting, responsible and useful role for anyone in an organisation to accept. The critical importance of digital assets, the ubiquity of digital methods and the need for people in all walks of life to have effective means to refer to persistent sources of data reinforce this notion. How is it then that long-term asset management, information lifecycle management, data curation, digital preservation (call it what you will) is often regarded as a peripheral specialist activity that it is diffcult to resource, complex to carry out, and delivers benefits that are, at best, simply an insurance policy rather than an activity that adds value to an organisation?
This presentation will examine the importance of defining clear roles for those involved with digital preservation and will consider the importance of associating this professional activity with strategic and tactical frameworks. It is likely that automated services will increasingly be required to deal with the collosal amount of digital information that will be produced and consumed over the next century and whilst the type and nature of these services are yet to be defined, we can be fairly certain of one endurng requirement, namely, that human judgement will always be needed to curate interesting and useful content for future generations.
About the Virtual Conference
With the expansion of digital data collection and the increased expectations of data sharing, researchers are turning to their libraries or institutional repositories as a place to store and preserve that data. Many institutions have created such data management services and see the data curation role as a growing and important element of their service portfolio. While some of the experience in managing other types of digital resources is transferrable, the management of large-scale scientific data has many special requirements and challenges. From metadata collection and cataloging data sources, to identification, discovery, and preservation, best practices and standards are still in their infancy.
This Virtual Conference will explore in greater depth than traditional webinars some of the practical lessons from those who have implemented data management and developed best practices, as well as provide some insight into the evolving issues the community faces. It will include discussions related to certification of trusted repositories, provenance and identification issues around data, data citation, preservation, and the work of several repository networks to advance distribution of scientific information.
Presentation provided at the SIDS BBNJ workshop 7-9 March 2017, Oostende, Belgium. Note there are 2 movies in this presentation which are not visible here.
One movie is posted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjspMw8sVMw
A presentation conducted by Ms Maria Rashidi, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong.
Presented on Wednesday the 2nd of October 2013.
The maintenance of bridges as a key element in transportation infrastructure has become a major concern due to increasing traffic volumes, deterioration of existing bridges and well-publicised bridge failures. The main goal of this study is to develop a requirements-driven decision support methodology for remediation of concrete bridges with the aim of maintaining bridge assets within acceptable limits of safety, serviceability and sustainability.The proposed model includes two phases:
Phase one is focused on condition assessment and priority ranking of bridge projects which makes use of an integrated priority index addressing a variety of factors. Phase two includes a multi criteria decision making technique which is able to select the best remediation strategy at both project and network level. The modified Simple Multi Attribute Rating Technique (SMART) is used as a decision analysis tool that employs the eigenvector approach of the Analytical Hierarchy
Process (AHP) for criteria weighting
As the COP28 continues, a panel discussion will held by the UNDP Buthan ahead of International Mountain Day, we take you to Lunana, one of the highest human settlements on earth. Home to 3 of Buthan’s 17 high risk glacial lakes, Lunana lives in constant fear of GLOF as glaciers melt fast. What actions we need to develop to reduce fthe impacts of Climate change on mountains water ecosystems.
Design principles for intelligent research investmentriel-presents
A content-rich celebration of an important knowledge legacy
An opportunity to reflect, and to distil key lessons and insights:
- about important knowledge gaps that remain
- about how best to fill such knowledge gaps
A ‘message in a bottle’ for future research investment
Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural and genetic Resources Commons.
12-14th September 2012
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
The 1st Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons aims to bring together leading people from a number of international scientific research communities, social science researchers, practitioners and policy analysts, to discuss the rationale and practical feasibility of institutional arrangements designed to emulate key public domain conditions for collaborative research.
We created a scenario where Scientists discovered a cure for the AIDS virus from the Cumberland Plain Land Snail of Western Sydney. Unfortunately the destruction of this ecosystem has led to its extinction. This presentation offers solutions to preserve the biodiversity of this region.
Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (ESTC) (http://www.ecotourismconference.org/) presentation by Todd Ballantine, Director of Science, Education and Sustainability, Ballantine Environmental Resources, Inc., presented in September 2011. Organized by The International Ecotourism Society (http://www.ecotourism.org), the ESTC is a unique annual conference providing practical solutions to advance sustainability goals for the tourism industry.
Lightning Talk by Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA at the RSA Scaling for impact event 1 February 2016.
https://www.thersa.org/events/fellowship-events/2016/2/rsa-engage-scaling-for-impact----1-feb/
My journey to provide and scale support to city regions to meet Global Goals by 2030
In 2008 I was working in Arup, heading up their global planning business with a world class team of transport, environmental, urban and policy and economics experts. Before that I had worked in infrastructure design and delivery, particularly Public Private Partnerships, around the World and I was also an adviser to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone on his Sustainable Development Commission and so I was very aware of the challenges of achieving improved city resilience.
My team at Arup was working at the cutting edge of low carbon sustainable city planning worldwide, particularly in China. It was there I got very inspired by their vision of an ecological civilisation, living in harmony with nature, as the next phase of development after the industrial model. However getting the plans built everywhere we worked was very difficult because success still revolved around GDP growth and that was the metric decision making. We knew that this was damaging the health of land and ocean ecology, and human well-being was not necessarily improving as a result, but everyone thought that this was the “price of progress”. Development was becoming less inclusive in many more developed countries as well.
I was given the opportunity to develop and articulate a roadmap towards a more resilient Ecological Age in the 2008-9 Brunel Lecture sponsored by Institution of Civil Engineers in London.
I gave this presentation all over the world in 45 cities in 2008-9, and the feedback was very positive, but many were skeptical that a more resilient Ecological Age could be delivered. The financial crash did not help the mood. It was very clear that the disconnect between investment decision making and the community social/ecological system impact at global and local scales was a huge problem. We did not have the tools and understanding of how human and ecology systems and resource flows interact and how this affects investment and health-productivity risks. It was clear to most people that city regions would be critical in determining a successful outcome for humanity by 2050, because of the projected urbanisation and the resulting investment drawn into those locations. The analysis showed that we had to embrace a factor 4 reduction in pollution and resource consumption, including greenhouse gas emissions, by 2050 both in retrofitting existing city regions and in the model for new urbanisation, if a successful outcome was to be achieved...
http://resilience.io/about/rsa-scaling-for-impact/
Ensuring that an organisation's digital assets are safe, secure and accessible for the long term should (in theory) be an interesting, responsible and useful role for anyone in an organisation to accept. The critical importance of digital assets, the ubiquity of digital methods and the need for people in all walks of life to have effective means to refer to persistent sources of data reinforce this notion. How is it then that long-term asset management, information lifecycle management, data curation, digital preservation (call it what you will) is often regarded as a peripheral specialist activity that it is diffcult to resource, complex to carry out, and delivers benefits that are, at best, simply an insurance policy rather than an activity that adds value to an organisation?
This presentation will examine the importance of defining clear roles for those involved with digital preservation and will consider the importance of associating this professional activity with strategic and tactical frameworks. It is likely that automated services will increasingly be required to deal with the collosal amount of digital information that will be produced and consumed over the next century and whilst the type and nature of these services are yet to be defined, we can be fairly certain of one endurng requirement, namely, that human judgement will always be needed to curate interesting and useful content for future generations.
About the Virtual Conference
With the expansion of digital data collection and the increased expectations of data sharing, researchers are turning to their libraries or institutional repositories as a place to store and preserve that data. Many institutions have created such data management services and see the data curation role as a growing and important element of their service portfolio. While some of the experience in managing other types of digital resources is transferrable, the management of large-scale scientific data has many special requirements and challenges. From metadata collection and cataloging data sources, to identification, discovery, and preservation, best practices and standards are still in their infancy.
This Virtual Conference will explore in greater depth than traditional webinars some of the practical lessons from those who have implemented data management and developed best practices, as well as provide some insight into the evolving issues the community faces. It will include discussions related to certification of trusted repositories, provenance and identification issues around data, data citation, preservation, and the work of several repository networks to advance distribution of scientific information.
1. NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
NATIONAL PRESERVATION CONFERENCE
NASHVILLE
OCTOBER 13 – 17, 2009
IS LESS MORE? EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AT HISTORIC
SITES
SATURDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2009
8:30 – 10:00 A.M.
A Strategy for Achieving the Goals: The Woodrow Wilson House Comprehensive
Stewardship Plan, 2007 – 2009
Wendy Claire Jessup
References and Resources for Conservation and Sustainability:
May 2009: Sustainable Cultural Heritage, a conference sponsored jointly by the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Care of
www.neh.gov/projects/Conference_09May/NEH-CNR_Conference.htm Cultural
Property
September 2008: International Institute for Conservation London Congress roundtable
discussion www.iiconservation.org/docs/IIC_climate_change_transcript.pdf
November 2007: From Gray Areas to Green Areas: Developing Sustainable Practices in
Preservation Environments www.ischool.utexas.edu/kilgarlin/gaga/
April 2007: Experts’ Roundtable on Sustainable Climate Management Strategies
www.getty.edu/conservation/science/climate/climate_experts_roundtable.html
Canadian Conservation Institute On-Line Manual for Preventive Conservation:
http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/crc/articles/mcpm/index-eng.aspx
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