The middle eastern geodatabase for antiquities (mega): An open source GIS-based heritage site inventor y and management system

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 32-57

  Myers, David ^a   Dalgity, Alison ^a  

^a GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84868035403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2153053X     Source Type: Journal    
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References (18)

1. Congrès Internationaux d,Architecture Moderne (CIAM), La Charte d,Athènes or The Athens Charter (1933), trans J. Tyrwhitt (Paris, France: The Library of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1946).
2. ICOMOS, The Venice Charter: International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites (1964), http://www.international.icomos.org/charters/venice-e.pdf (accessed August 12, 2010).
3. UNESCO, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention) (Paris: UNESCO, 1972).
4. ICOMOS, International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), ICOMOS Charter for the Protection and Management of the Archaeological Heritage (1990), http://www.international.icomos.org/charters/arch-e.pdf (accessed August 12, 2010).
5. ICOMOS, ICOMOS Principles for the Recording of Monuments, Groups of Buildings and Sites (1996), http://www.international.icomos.org/charters/recording-e.htm (accessed August 12, 2010).
6. Australia ICOMOS, The Burra Charter: The Australia ICOMOS Charter for the Conservation of Places of Cultural Significance (1999), http://australia.icomos.org/publications/charters/ (accessed August 12, 2010).
7. UNESCO, Recommendation Concerning the Protection, at National Level, of the Cultural and Natural Heritage (Paris: UNESCO, 1972) http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL-ID-13087&URL-DO-DO- TOPIC&URL-SECTION-201.html (accessed June 2, 2011).
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9. UNESCO, Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1999), http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL-ID-15207&URL-DO- DO-TOPIC&URL-SECTION-201.html (accessed August 12, 2010).
10. Further information on the GCI-WMF Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative is available at http://www.getty.edu/conservation/field-projects/iraq/index.html (accessed August 12, 2010).
11. Further information on the development of MEGA-Jordan is available at http://www.getty.edu/con servation/field-projects/jordan/index.html (accessed August 12, 2010).
12. Tony Walton, Assessing the Archaeological Values of Historic Places: Procedures, Methods and Field Techniques (Wellington: New Zealand Department of Conservation, 1999), http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/IR167.pdf (accessed August 12, 2010);
13. Tony Walton, Methods for Monitoring the Condition of Historic Places (Wellington: New Zealand Department of Conservation, 2003), http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/docts27.pdf (accessed August 12, 2010).
14. Council of Europe, Core Data Standard for Archaeological Sites and Monuments / Fiche d,indexation minimale pour les sites archéologiques (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1999);
15. Council of Europe, Guidance on Inventory and Documentation of the Cultural Heritage (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2009).
16. Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, Applied Software Project Management (Sebastopol, Calif.: O,Reilly Media, Inc., 2006).
17. The heritage value categories contained in MEGA-Jordan are scientific, historical, aesthetic, social, and spiritual. All but the last of these categories are modeled after the Burra Charter (1999).
18. A standard of particular importance to identifying content for historic buildings is: Council of Europe, Core Data Index to Historic Buildings and Monuments of the Architectural Heritage: Recommendation R(95)3 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member state on co-ordinating documentation methods and systems related to historic buildings and monuments of the architectural heritage (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1995).