To celebrate its 50 years, the Ministry of Culture has given the company Hyptique (which has, in the other CD-Roms "Land of Cities" published by Belin and which I recently here talked ) a website dedicated to this event .
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Rubric "Citizens of Culture can find a map of France, using Google Maps, which locates photographs of many places and events illustrating the wealth national cultural in many forms.
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By clicking on each icon, one can see a photograph and explanatory text. I had the privilege to participate in the testing phase of this section and deposit some contributions including one on House of Pierre Loti in Rochefort which I mentioned here .
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Originally designed to allow any user to file its own pictures and comments on these places of cultural heritage, the Ministry of Culture has returned to a less "participatory "This section would have allowed the spontaneous georeferencing of much of" heritage "French but with problems of definition and right images and their objects, not to mention the tremendous work of moderate contributions may be underestimated initially. Finally the Ministry of Culture has decided to limit this to a heritage map operation called "Click your heritage" . This is a photo contest organized in partnership with the High Committee for youth between 6 and 24 July, which should enable young people attending the summer recreation centers to learn about photography. "Designed by Francoise Denoyelle, professor at the Institut Louis-Lumière, the contest will take participants to set up a photographic inspired by those of Christmas The Boyer and Georges Arlaud which, in the twentieth century, have traveled France with their device. This new photographic body born of the competition will be paid at the Library of Architecture and Heritage in the European Heritage Days 19 and 20 September. ".
already exist to other sites of the Ministry of Culture which can discover the cultural heritage through an inlet or geographical mapping from databases developed over the years such as the base Mérimée.
This site "Architecture and Heritage" to discover the outcome of the heritage inventory cultural, historic monuments, and library of Architecture and Heritage . The site
"Architecture and Heritage" provides access to geographical data from the Inventory of heritage whose geographical basis of the work is across the township. "Investigations into the field by the researchers in charge of the inventory are grouped within a department, then by all township buildings or objects, then by individual work folders" . .
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Data access is done by departments and municipalities for which there is an indication of the nature of the data available and searchable online.
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Clicking on old photographs available online you can discover not only the photographic heritage but also find images of places or landmarks that still exist today or and can then compare to current views, whether his own photographs, those of others available in Panoramio, or with images or aerial views ground available in the various mapping sites online.
(Top View Theatre of Bayonne and the Adour early twentieth century, Copyright Ministry of Culture, Media architecture and heritage - Diffusion NMR. Bottom view taken by me Christmas in 2007 during the Bayonne)
course, these few examples shown do not claim completeness of the present achievements and current projects of the Ministry of Culture in mapping and georeferencing of cultural heritage. In addition, the Ministry of Culture is not the only player in the French cultural heritage, since local authorities, associations, and numerous institutions working for the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage, a valuation that now happening more and more by an Internet presence, including by geographical discovery and mapping.
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