Underwater Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage on land has gained magnanimous attention from both national and international agency, whereas underwater CH requires legal protection. Therefore, realizing the importance of underwater CH “Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001” (UNESCO, 2001) was instituted to focus on protecting underwater CH. In this convention, UNESCO admits the vitality of underwater CH as a fundamental part of CH of mankind. It outlines the value of underwater research and instruction to the safety and preservation of underwater CH, outline community right to benefit from learning and entertaining payback of accountable non-intrusive right of entry to in situ underwater CH. It stated the alarming harm caused by unlawful

Indian culture and art were influenced by the religious and philosophical development of time. Post-independence, Indians has progressively propagating to promote cultural identity. India is a dynamic member state of the World Heritage forum ever since 1977. In the Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage’ (UNESCO, 1972) state that cultural heritage and the natural heritage are progressively more and more exposed with damage not merely by the conventional roots of decay, but furthermore by altering societal and economic situations which intensify the state of affairs with even more dreadful observable fact of damage and demolition. Taking into account that worsening and desertion of an artifact of the cultural heritage or natural heritage will represent a detrimental insolvency of the heritage of all the countries of the world. Studying that safeguarding of heritage at the national level over and over again remains partial for the reason that resources which involve and inadequate economic, unscientific, and technological assets of the where the heritage to be protected is

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have shaped and have been part and partial of our lives. Presently, ICTs are most universally used tools for preserving CH. The foremost steps in preserving CH involve identifying the objects to be preserved and subsequently capturing the artifacts it in a digital medium so that it can be scientifically collected, documented, shared, and recycle (Hunter, 2005). ICTs tool can play a role in capturing, managing and disseminating CH. The usage of ICTs in libraries, museums and archives centers has been introduced with lesser or greater accomplishment into a variety of professional areas and human lives is universal. ICTs are now widely used in cultural, archival and museums