<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear colleagues and friends,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You may find the paper below that was published by one of our MSc students in the Institute for Sustainable Heritage interesting.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Xiaoyan Zhu, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta. <b>Defining acoustical heritage: A qualitative approach based on expert interviews. </b><i>Applied Acoustics</i>, Volume 216, 2024, 109754.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2023.109754">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2023.109754</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The interdisciplinary study of acoustics/sound and heritage occurs in different countries and cultures, but there is no uniform consensus on the terminology and definitions of the field. This study aims to explore the definition of acoustical heritage. The study used structured interviews with experts from different cultures and different disciplines and analyzed the interview data in detail through thematic analysis. The five themes are: different terminology, subjects in acoustical heritage, possible categories of acoustical heritage, value of acoustical heritage, and challenges of acoustical heritage preservation. Based on individual definitions of acoustical heritage proposed by experts and through detailed analysis and discussion, this paper proposes a multidimensional definition of acoustical heritage.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Keywords: Archaeoacoustics; Heritage; Multidimensional approach; Preservation; Terminology; Definition; Thematic analysis</div></blockquote><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All my best,</div></div><div>Scott</div><div><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#666666" size="1">—</font><br></font><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>SCOTT ALLAN ORR</b></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>