The memory of heritage in an evolving and changing context and future challenges

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The memory of heritage in an evolving and changing context and future challenges

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Introduction

Heritage Memory has been the subject of scientific research, reflection, and interpretation for years. In its broad sense, it is a product that provides societies with a collection of resources inherited from the past, which have been recreated in the present to make them available for the benefit of future generations. Therefore, heritage memory is a link to identity and a source of inspiration for creativity and innovation, but it is also a cause of exclusion or even hostage to political conflicts and ideological debates.

Perhaps the most dangerous thing is that this memory has not yet received due attention, especially with the popularity of technology, so the gap in our relationship with our heritage has widened.

Today, sources of knowledge may be text, databases, still images, animations, sound, graphics, programs, web pages, and human expressions, whether cultural, scientific, artistic, or administrative, or may include technical information. Legal, medical, or other information, is increasingly digitally generated or may be converted into a digital form of existing analog resources. These resources are of enduring value and importance and constitute a heritage that must be protected and preserved for present and future generations. But even this satisfied digital memory is exposed to many threats, making it ephemeral and requiring careful maintenance and management.

As a result, in the face of increasing globalization, the question of the memory of heritage is being seriously raised today as a force that ensures the preservation of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. Therefore, good management of the development potential of heritage memory requires an approach at emphasizes the principle of sustainability and determines the balance between its usefulness in media, economic, and social terms and its preservation as a wealth threatened by several factors. For this reason, in the midst of the current stakes, we are required to revise our representations of the memory of heritage. And update it, to get acquainted, preserve the meaning, and work for the future.

Objectives

The objectives of this forum, which is concerned with the issue of memory and heritage sciences, as a multidisciplinary scientific field that today combines humanities, social, experimental, and digital sciences, and engineering and contributes to its definition, understanding, preservation, and availability, whether in its physical, non-physical or digital form, are to:

Highlighting the heritage sciences in its diversity.
Thinking about the memory of heritage as a driver of social and economic development.
Valuing initiatives that document and archive different types of heritage
Consider the authorities’ commitment to develop and implement a multidimensional framework to protect and promote the sustainability of heritage.
Evaluate efforts in implementing standards and policies and transferring and promoting heritage.
Address the issue of digital mediation for heritage memory in libraries, archives, and museums.
Question the central role of heritage in libraries, archives, and museums to respond to contemporary issues, whether social, cultural, economic, political, or environmental.
Identify the links between the various initiatives of institutions concerned with heritage conservation and valorization.
Create an interdisciplinary bridge connecting the various disciplines dealing with the issue of heritage memory.

According to this intersection, we propose five axes for reflection:

Conference topics

The new concepts of heritage memory and the challenges it poses
Web memory, archiving, and mediation
Knowledge migration and issues of heritage valorization and re-employment
Audiovisual heritage: theoretical approaches and content classification.
Documentary WAP and enhancing the narrative reality of knowledge in times of crisis

2. The heritage memory reflects a resilient society: innovation, creativity, and knowledge transfer

The challenges of rehabilitation and renewal of heritage and its prospects in the process of local development.
Heritage between tension, competition, and cultural industries.
Preservation, exploitation, organization, and dissemination of heritage in the digital age.
The symbolic perception of heritage, identity stakes, and community issues.

3. The legal environment heritage

Participatory governance of Heritage Memory.
Digital web heritage and intellectual property.
Cultural policy: valorization and conservation.
The evolution of the legal framework for preserving memory.

4. Qualifications and training in information and heritage professions

Practices and tasks of heritage institutions: management of heritage assets in libraries, archives and museums, for innovative mediation.
Preserving the green on the memory of heritage.
Standards and techniques for document processing for heritage collections (classical, digital, …).
Training of heritage actors: challenges and prospects.

5. Sustainable management and users of the Heritage Memory

Informational, social, and political uses of heritage memory.
Digital and virtual heritage users and access limits.
For an observatory of heritage memory and inclusive and socially committed practices
Memory: Between reconstruction and deconstruction

Publishing

The full texts of the accepted articles will be published in the Arab International Journal of Knowledge Management

The language to be adopted at the forum