Author: United States Conference of Mayors. Special Committee on Historic PreservationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
With Heritage So Rich
Author: United States Conference of Mayors. Special Committee on Historic PreservationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
With Heritage So Rich
Author: United States Conference of Mayors. Special Committee on Historic PreservationPublisher:
ISBN: 9780891333968
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
With Heritage So Rich
Author: United States Conference of Mayors. Special Committee on Historic PreservationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A Richer Heritage
Author: Robert E. StipePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807827797
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Surveying the past, present and future of historic preservation in America, this text features 15 essays by some of the most eminent voices in the field, essays which highlight the principle ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape the movement.
Open Heritage Data
Author: Henriette Roued-CunliffePublisher: Facet Publishing
ISBN: 178330359X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Digital heritage can mean many things, from building a database on Egyptian textiles to interacting with family historians over Facebook. However, it is rare to see professionals with a heritage background working practically with the heritage datasets in their charge. Many institutions who have the resources to do so, leave this work to computer programmers, missing the opportunity to share their knowledge and passion for heritage through innovative technology. Open Heritage Data: An introduction to research, publishing and programming with open data in the heritage sector has been written for practitioners, researchers and students working in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector who do not have a computer science background, but who want to work more confidently with heritage data. It combines current research in open data with the author’s extensive experience in coding and teaching coding to provide a step-by-step guide to working actively with the increasing amounts of data available. Coverage includes: • an introduction to open data as a next step in heritage mediation • an overview of the laws most relevant to open heritage data • an Open Heritage Data Model and examples of how institutions publish heritage data • an exploration of use and reuse of heritage data • tutorials on visualising and combining heritage datasets and on using heritage data for research. Featuring sample code, case examples from around the world and step-by-step technical tutorials, this book will be a valuable resource for anyone in the GLAM sector involved in, or who wants to be involved in creating, publishing, using and reusing open heritage data.
A Wealth of Family
Author: Thomas BrooksPublisher: Alpha Multimedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0977462935
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Compelling True Story Shows How to Cross Cultural Barriers This inspiring account of adoption, reunion, and heritage from Thomas Brooks provides a timely and provocative perspective on multicultural families and powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty. Brooks grew up as the only child of a struggling single mother in inner-city Pittsburgh. He was battling racial stereotypes at school and searching for a place among his peers. Then he was told at age eleven that he was adopted. He did not know it at the time, but Brooks had actually been born to a white biological mother who descended from Lithuanian Jews and a black Kenyan foreign student father. Years after that stunning revelation, Brooks escaped the ghetto and traveled to search for his heritage. He found his biological mother in London with his previously unknown British siblings. He then located his biological father and extended family in Nairobi. His international search and the resulting reunions have profoundly affected three families in the United States, England, and Kenya.
Precious Heritage
Author: Bruce A. SteinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198028962
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
From the lush forests of Appalachia to the frozen tundra of Alaska, and from the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest to the subtropical rainforests of Hawaii, the United States harbors a remarkable array of ecosystems. These ecosystems in turn sustain an exceptional variety of plant and animal life. For species such as salamanders and freshwater turtles, the United States ranks as the global center of diversity. Among the nation's other unique biological features are California's coast redwoods, the world's tallest trees, and Nevada's Devils Hole pupfish, which survives in a single ten-by-seventy-foot desert pool, the smallest range of any vertebrate animal. Precious Heritage draws together for the first time a quarter century of information on U.S. biodiversity developed by natural heritage programs from across the country. This richly illustrated volume not only documents those aspects of U.S. biodiversity that are particularly noteworthy, but also considers how our species and ecosystems are faring, what is threatening them, and what is needed to protect the nation's remaining natural inheritance. Above all, Precious Heritage is a celebration of the extraordinary biological diversity of the United States.
Practical Heritage Management
Author: Scott F. AnfinsonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0759118000
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The book provides a comprehensive overview of American cultural resource management and historic preservation. It is designed for introductory and advanced courses in archaeology, history, and architecture. It explores the structure, historic background, laws, and governmental and professional players in American heritage management systems.
Baby's Heritage
Author: Carole J. GellineauPublisher:
ISBN: 9780966366808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Richer Heritage
Author: Robert E. StipePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807863213
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Surveying the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America, this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in the field. A Richer Heritage will be an essential, thought-provoking guide for professionals as well as administrators, volunteers, and policy makers involved in preservation efforts. An introduction traces the evolution of historic preservation in America, highlighting the principal ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape the movement. The book also describes the workings--legal, administrative, and fiscal--of the layered federal, state, and local government partnership put in place by Congress in 1966. Individual chapters explore the preservation of designed and vernacular landscapes, the relationship between historic preservation and the larger environmental and land-trust movements, the role of new private and nonprofit players, racial and ethnic interests in historic preservation, and the preservation of our intangible cultural values. A concluding chapter analyzes the present state of the historic preservation movement and suggests future directions for the field in the twenty-first century. Contributors include preservationists, local-government citizen activists, an architect, landscape architects, environmentalists, an archaeologist, a real-estate developer, historians, a Native American tribal leader, an ethnologist, and lawyers.