Fonds DescriptionThe fonds contains documents collected by the students and faculty of the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at Central European University.
The Digital Archive of Cultural Heritage was born upon the initiative of CEU visiting faculty member and CEU Medieval Studies PhD alumna Eszter Spät, which resulted in the formal declaration of cooperation between the Cultural Heritage Studies Program (CHSP) at Central European University (CEU) and the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Blinken OSA). The Letter of Intent signed by the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU (which runs the CHSP) and Blinken OSA in late 2019 proposes that research work conducted by students and faculty of the CHSP should thenceforth be preserved and made available as openly as possible to researchers at Blinken OSA.
The CHSP focuses on developing aptitudes for the critical assessment of tangible structures and objects such as buildings, monuments, archaeological sites, and works of art; on intangible heritage like traditions, languages, and knowledge; and on environmental heritage connected to human-nature interactions. In the course of the research work conducted within the CHSP, numerous documents of historical value are collected or recorded, mostly in electronic format, as part of the intangible cultural heritage of the people, groups, or societies concerned. It is from among these that the first collections are now being made available to researchers.
Fonds DescriptionThe fonds contains documents collected by the students and faculty of the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at Central European University.
The Digital Archive of Cultural Heritage was born upon the initiative of CEU visiting faculty member and CEU Medieval Studies PhD alumna Eszter Spät, which resulted in the formal declaration of cooperation between the Cultural Heritage Studies Program (CHSP) at Central European University (CEU) and the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Blinken OSA). The Letter of Intent signed by the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU (which runs the CHSP) and Blinken OSA in late 2019 proposes that research work conducted by students and faculty of the CHSP should thenceforth be preserved and made available as openly as possible to researchers at Blinken OSA.
The CHSP focuses on developing aptitudes for the critical assessment of tangible structures and objects such as buildings, monuments, archaeological sites, and works of art; on intangible heritage like traditions, languages, and knowledge; and on environmental heritage connected to human-nature interactions. In the course of the research work conducted within the CHSP, numerous documents of historical value are collected or recorded, mostly in electronic format, as part of the intangible cultural heritage of the people, groups, or societies concerned. It is from among these that the first collections are now being made available to researchers.