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    An information system for heritage documentation management of Cuenca city, Ecuador
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2012-06) Heras B., Verónica; Steenberghen, Thérese; Zúñiga López, Marcelo; Cardoso Martínez, Fausto; Santana Q., Mario; Van Balen, Koenraad; Universidad de Cuenca; Dirección de Investigación de la Universidad de Cuenca; DIUC
    The understanding and safeguarding of Cultural Heritage involves the collection, storage and processing of all forms of relevant information pertaining to it. Whereas the heterogeneous sets of data help understanding the heritage monument or site; heritage data management is an essential task for the use, dissemination, protection and conservation of the monuments. Compiling heritage monument records is still mostly a manual procedure, while computer technology partially solved data organization and archiving of individual components. Additionally, a main bottle neck for the archiving of heritage information of sites belonging to the World Heritage List is that information is collected and archived by a variety of institutions and that each archiving organization has its own protocol and tradition of data storage and dissemination. To integrate the dispersed available information, which would facilitate the retrieval of information and making the information available for decision-making, this paper presents a concept of Heritage Information System (HIS) based on: (i) value-based assessment at different scales, (ii) a heritage (geo) database, and (iii) a geographic information system (GIS). For the development of the concept heritage data of the historic city of Cuenca (World Heritage Site, 1999), Ecuador, were used.
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    Hacia un plan piloto de conservación preventiva basado en la campaña de mantenimiento de San Roque
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2014-01) Achig, María Cecilia; Jara, David; Cardoso, Fausto; Van Balen, Koenraad
    The need to have a Plan of Preventive Conservation, it is essential with regard to the processes of conservation of the heritage. This article presents a methodology developed by the project "Ciudad Patrimonio Mundial", which contributes to the development of a pilot Plan for preventive conservation, developed bearing in mind the proposal made by the ICOMOS for study of damage and consists of the following aspects: "anamnesis, diagnosis, treatment and control". (ICOMOS: 2003). In this way were determined four-phase plan, which have been implemented according to the experiences of the campaigns of preventive conservation (maintenance, in this specific case) applied in Susudel (December - 2011 and January 2013) and from the campaign of maintenance applied to heritage buildings of San Roque. At the end they will be presented the results of the campaign, from which general strategies for the development of a pilot Plan for preventive conservation in San Roque will be developed, which is aimed at the conservation of the heritage buildings in this neighborhood of Cuenca, in order to apply this methodology in sectors strategically chosen of this World Heritage City.