Egypt
- Red List Announced Covering At-risk Egyptian Cultural Objects
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Rick St Hilaire) The International Council of Museums (ICOM) today announced that it would soon release a Red List for Egypt. Red Lists describe various types of cultural objects that are considered to be at-risk. Such lists...
- Weekly Websites
Tools for studying the Pyramid Texts online Pyramid Texts Online By Vincent Brown Vincent has updated his Pyramid Texts Online website with the addition of a useful Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. On his blog, Vincent says that "This dictionary was created...
- Revered Ibis Surviving (just) In Syria
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10927"Scientists have tagged three northern bald ibis, among the last survivors of a species of Middle Eastern bird once so revered that it had its own ancient Egyptian hieroglyph, in an effort to save them from extinction....
- Digitization Of Description De L’Égypte
http://www.bibalex.org/isis/News/23052005.htm Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the following news item. The preservation of the valuable collection of Description de l’Égypte has been completed by the International School of Information Science (ISIS)...
- Forthcoming Session Of The World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=185 "The 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee will be held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention...
Egypt
The Stockholm Challenge
http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/
An Egypt heritage project has been chosen as a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge.
The first is the digitization of the Napoleonic Description De l’Egypte, carried out by the :
http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/projectdata.asp?id=1&projectid=1199
"The valuable collection of Description De l’Egypte containing text and images related to antiquities, natural history, and the modern states of Egypt, has been fully digitized, digitally restored, and integrated on a virtual browser with the objective of preserving it and making it publicly available. . . . This project was initiated within the International School of Information Science (ISIS). Founded as a research institute within the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), ISIS acts as an incubator for digital and technological projects, promoting and nurturing innovations which view the encompassing aims of the BA as an end goal."
A second project which has also made the list of finalists is the Our Natural Heritage at Risk project, from Egypt's CultNat:
The first is the digitization of the Napoleonic Description De l’Egypte, carried out by the :
http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/projectdata.asp?id=1&projectid=1199
"The valuable collection of Description De l’Egypte containing text and images related to antiquities, natural history, and the modern states of Egypt, has been fully digitized, digitally restored, and integrated on a virtual browser with the objective of preserving it and making it publicly available. . . . This project was initiated within the International School of Information Science (ISIS). Founded as a research institute within the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), ISIS acts as an incubator for digital and technological projects, promoting and nurturing innovations which view the encompassing aims of the BA as an end goal."
A second project which has also made the list of finalists is the Our Natural Heritage at Risk project, from Egypt's CultNat:
http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/projectdata.asp?id=1&projectid=157
"The project provides online information using multi lingual multimedia about Egypt's endangered animals and plants species.The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) annually publishes a list of endangered animal and plant species in each country. This list includes native mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, molluscs, insects and plants that have been assessed as being at risk of extinction on a global level (a Red Data list). The Egyptian Red Data list (2002) includes 35 mammals, 20 birds, 6 reptiles, 10 marine fishes and mollusks and two plant species."
The winner of the Stockholm Challenge will be announced on May 11th 2006. A list of all the finalists can be found at:
The winner of the Stockholm Challenge will be announced on May 11th 2006. A list of all the finalists can be found at:
http://event.stockholmchallenge.se/finalists.php?id=wsis
See the above pages for full details of each of the finaliststs.
See the above pages for full details of each of the finaliststs.
- Red List Announced Covering At-risk Egyptian Cultural Objects
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Rick St Hilaire) The International Council of Museums (ICOM) today announced that it would soon release a Red List for Egypt. Red Lists describe various types of cultural objects that are considered to be at-risk. Such lists...
- Weekly Websites
Tools for studying the Pyramid Texts online Pyramid Texts Online By Vincent Brown Vincent has updated his Pyramid Texts Online website with the addition of a useful Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. On his blog, Vincent says that "This dictionary was created...
- Revered Ibis Surviving (just) In Syria
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10927"Scientists have tagged three northern bald ibis, among the last survivors of a species of Middle Eastern bird once so revered that it had its own ancient Egyptian hieroglyph, in an effort to save them from extinction....
- Digitization Of Description De L’Égypte
http://www.bibalex.org/isis/News/23052005.htm Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the following news item. The preservation of the valuable collection of Description de l’Égypte has been completed by the International School of Information Science (ISIS)...
- Forthcoming Session Of The World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=185 "The 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee will be held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention...