Guidelines for the Heritage@Risk Report

 

Guidelines for the Heritage@Risk Report

Heritage at Risk: ICOMOS World Report on Monuments and Sites in Danger

Heritage at Risk: ICOMOS World Report on Monuments and Sites in Danger is produced regularly to assist in understanding and monitoring the health/state of cultural heritage through the active contribution of reports by the ICOMOS network of members, National and International Scientific Committees.

It is complementary to existing ICOMOS initiatives such as:


Who is it for?

The Report is not only conceived as a vehicle to share, among professional colleagues, information about risks to cultural heritage and to identify emerging conservation solutions. It is also a vehicle for analysing trends affecting cultural heritage worldwide that are of interest to a much broader audience.

It is distributed to international organisations and media by the ICOMOS Secretariat, with appropriate media releases. National and Scientific Committees are responsible for its distribution to relevant media and national organisations, government and key stakeholders.

How is it produced?

The production of the Report is the responsibility of a Taskforce of at least three mandated members of the ICOMOS Board. The Taskforce ensures the production of the report, with the support of an editorial board and a project manager who is responsible for:

The Report will be produced regularly.


Language

The common language used for the publication of the Report is English. There may also be versions in the other languages of ICOMOS (accompanied by Abstracts in English).

Content

The Report is an ICOMOS product. It includes all reports produced through a consultative process, and authorised by ICOMOS National and/or International Scientific Committees. It can also include authorised reports submitted by partner organisations of ICOMOS.

Where there is no National ICOMOS Committee, an ICOMOS member may submit a report that can be considered for publication by the Taskforce. In exceptional cases individual reports from other professional specialists will be considered after review by a member of the ICOMOS Board.

Where a report is received which is not from the National Committee, it will be submitted to the relevant National ICOMOS Committee for comment, before being considered for publication by the Taskforce.

What material is expected?

All National and International Scientific Committees are responsible for submission of a report for each Report in due time and according to the following general guidelines. The format and content may depend on circumstances relevant to a committee in a given year. The following is intended, therefore, as a general guideline and not a prescribed formula.

Length: Usually reports are around 3 pages of text


Format: Electronic only - in either word or rtf format (newspaper articles can be scanned as PDF documents).  


Content:

 

References: Necessary references or sources should be included at the end of the text


Contact Information: Contact for further information (e.g. email/web address) should be included


Illustrations:

Authorship: Indicate if authorship is to be accredited to an individual, the committee, or individual/s on behalf of the committee


Deadlines

To ensure that the Heritage at Risk Report is current and relevant, all material must be submitted to the Editor three months before its publication.

Further Information & Queries

 

All queries should be directed through the ICOMOS Secretariat.

 

Prepared by Sheridan Burke, Dinu Bumbaru, Jane Harrington & Michael Petzet

(Dubrovnik - October 2001, updated December 2015)