ASOF Task Force

ArCH: Armenian Heritage Management System

Charge

This is an ongoing program executed on a yearly basis for selected domains. It consists in establishing a Pan-Armenian Heritage Management System, a formal digital inventory that conforms to international scientific and legal standards to allow a better governance of heritage and its preservation and protection. The approach is incremental and continuous. Once the management system and the IT framework are created, the program will promote and support the collaboration of all relevant stakeholders for data population purposes. 

Priority will be given to the input of data related to the immovable heritage of Artsakh.

Mission

Supporting Armenian institutions in updating their processes in data collection and management and in improving institutional collaborations and management 

Promoting digitization of data to make Armenian culture accessible to  a larger community of scholars and to the public worldwide, through its publication in international platforms (i.e., Europeana)

Promoting Armenian culture and heritage internationally and keeping track of centuries of Armenian heritage around the world to protect it from destruction, falsification, and neglect 

Contributing to the fostering of the Armenian identity and to projecting soft power strategically

Members
Europa Nostra Council member
U. of Salzburg, Armenian Studies Division (head); Center for the Study of the Christian East (director); Senior scientist in Biblical Studies and Church History; Docent in General and Applied Linguistics; Blue Shield Armenia & Austria; Adjunct Prof. in Interdisciplinary Armenian Cultural Heritage Studies, Inst. of Archaeology and Ethnography; Etchmiadzin's Office for Artsakh Cultural and Spiritual Heritage Issues.
Director of SNCO "Scientific Research Center of Historical and Cultural Heritage", Senior researcher at Matenadaran, Professor at Yerevan State University
Independant researcher
Kerkonian Dajani LLP
Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Université Aix-Marseille
Advisors
Disciplines
Humanities