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Papers presented at the International Conference on "South-East-East Asia and India: Historical Interconnections in Art, Architecture and Culture of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam" held during 18-29 January 2012 at BPS Women University, Khanpur Kalan, organized by Centre for Indic-Asian Studies

Grandson, son and father of architects, renowned professor and honoured urban planner, Manuel Ribas Piera was the foremost promoter of international relations at the Barcelona School of Architecture, inviting the best known architects of the time (such as Stirling, Kleihues and Aymonino), and co-founder, with Giancarlo de Carlo, of the ILAUD programme (International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design). He set up the pioneering landscape architecture studies in Catalunya, now an international point of reference. His overt cosmopolitanism went hand in hand with a staunch commitment to the city of Barcelona, at metropolitan and local level, as shown by plans for Bellvitge and El Carmel, and his openly voiced disagreement with some political decisions. For all of these reasons, we thank him posthumously for his great skill, his friendship, his culture, his generosity, his tenacity and his example. ; Peer Reviewed

Grandson, son and father of architects, renowned professor and honoured urban planner, Manuel Ribas Piera was the foremost promoter of international relations at the Barcelona School of Architecture, inviting the best known architects of the time (such as Stirling, Kleihues and Aymonino), and co-founder, with Giancarlo de Carlo, of the ILAUD programme (International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design). He set up the pioneering landscape architecture studies in Catalunya, now an international point of reference. His overt cosmopolitanism went hand in hand with a staunch commitment to the city of Barcelona, at metropolitan and local level, as shown by plans for Bellvitge and El Carmel, and his openly voiced disagreement with some political decisions. For all of these reasons, we thank him posthumously for his great skill, his friendship, his culture, his generosity, his tenacity and his example. ; Peer Reviewed

This paper describes the steps undertaken by the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) to standardize criteria for describing and analysing the content of municipal museums' humanities heritage collections. The project began with an initial analysis, which led to a series of proposals based on documentation standards. These proposals were then examined with the museums in various work sessions. The result is a handbook of documentation guidelines and criteria that can be applied in all museums. At the same time, a work plan was made to adopt as a reference a Catalan translation of the Art & Architecture Thesaurus. The Catalan government's Directorate General for Cultural Heritage is responsible for the translation. Finally, the paper analyses the importance of this process of standardization in the context of new challenges for the dissemination of museum heritage online: Europeana and Linked Open Data.