ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the needs, methods, and uses of comprehensive information management systems (IMS) for documentation, nomination, and management of World Heritage properties towards a successful implementation of the HUL. It describes strategies for the development of IMS in cultural heritage illustrated with two case studies along the Central Asian Silk Roads. The first one is the design and development of the Silk Roads Cultural Heritage Resource Information System (CHRIS) supporting the serial transnational World Heritage nominations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and the second one is the development of a Geographic Information System (GIS) for mapping three World Heritage cities in Uzbekistan.
