Concurrent and sustainable development of a local-scale digital heritage inventory through action research at Bat, Oman

Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 195-212

  Kondo, Yasuhisa ^a   Miki, Takehiro ^b   Kuronuma, Taichi ^c   Hayakawa, Yuichi S ^d   Kataoka, Kyoko ^e   Oguchi, Takashi ^d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Action research; Concurrent data sharing and management; Digital heritage inventory; Oman; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981719729     PISSN: 20441266     EISSN: 20441274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JCHMSD-01-2016-0005     Document Type: Article

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