Whmnet.org
- Title
- World Heritage Memory Net
- Meta Description
- World Heritage Memory Net (WHMNet) is a multimedia and multilingual global digital library of the world's culture, history, and heritage related to the current 1007 World Heritage Sites - 779 of these are 'cultural' sites, 197 'natural', and 31 'mixed' - of 161 countries / states parties inscribed by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Of these 1007, 46 sites are 'in danger' and 31 are ‘transboundary’. Directed by Ching-chih Chen, Professor Emeriti of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College and currently the president of Global Connection and Collaboration (GlobalCC), a nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization. World Heritage Memory Net was supported by the US National Science Foundation's International Digital Library Program as a part of Global Memory Net from July 2007 to August 2010. Since September 2010, the project has been supported by GlobalCC.
- Meta Keywords
- World Heritage Memory Net, Simmons College, Ching-chih Chen, National Science Foundation, International Digital Library Program, NSF/IDLP, World heritage site, World heritage sites, Heritage site, Heritage sites, World heritage list, Heritage websites, Heritage pages, Site, Sites, Memory site, Memory sites, Memory net, Global Connection and Collaboration, video, photos, images