Figure 2
Model for Analysing Territorial Expressions of Cultural Resources
Territorial expression
Physical networks
Functional networks
Cultural resources
Organizational networks
Source: Kramer, M., Jansen-Verbeke, M., 2004, EU- European Committee of the Regions
Local and regional authorities and industries, the inter- and intra regional networks and alliances at
the level of the infrastructure form the hardware of CH. The positioning of the CI of territories in
the EU context- images and regional marketing is the software of the system and a most crucial and
manageable aspect. The organizational capacity in terms of policies, human resources and
knowledge, of public and private alliances, of stakeholders’ interaction forms the orgware.
The cohesion and dynamics of cultural heritage elements strongly depends on the shareware or the
capacity to develop territorial identities. This can be studied at different scale levels. The option of
this study is to focus on the regional and local level (for pragmatic reasons, such as data
availability).
In the framework of this study, these analytic layers will all be taken into account. In a first stage,
data and metadata highlighting the availability and formats of such data) will be collected in 27
European countries regarding the existence and concentration of the cultural heritage (green arrow
on the left side of Fig. 3). The measurement and mapping of a number of indicators at the NUTS III
level in EU27+2 will illustrate the European diversity as far as the location and significance of
cultural heritage is concerned. This will constitute the backbone for the identification of regional
typologies. Then, the concept of “regional cohesion” of cultural heritage can be explored, by taking
into consideration indicators that illustrate the “hard”, “soft”, “organisational” and “partnership”
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