R.A. 11961 (DEFINITION OF TERMS)

refers to the utilization of buildings, other built-structures and site of values for purposes other than that of which they were intended originally.

Adaptive Reuse

refers to any location where studies of specific ethno-linguistic groups are undertaken and whose properties contribute to the nation’s cultural heritage.

Anthropological site

refers to a cultural property found locally which is at least 100 years old.

Antique

refers to any location, whether underground or underwater, containing fossils, artifacts, and other materials which document culturally relevant paleontological prehistoric, historic events

Archaeological site

-refers to private and public records for permanent preservation because of their evidential, historical informational value, otherwise known as archival material, collections or archival holdings.

-a place where archival materials are kept

-an organization/agency also known as archival agency

Archives

the place where archival materials are kept and preserved, and an organization or agency who is responsible to conserve and make archival materials available for reference and research.

Archival agency

refers to protected areas recognized by ASEAN to be of high conservation importance, preserving in total a complete spectrum of representative ecosystem of the ASEAN Region.

ASEAN Heritage parks

refers to architectural and engineering structures such as bridges, government buildings, houses of ancestry, traditional dwellings, train stations, lighthouses, and others with notable historical and cultural significance.

Built heritage

refer to any person or institution that acquires cultural property for purposes other than sale.

Collector

refers to National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)

Commission

refers to all processes for maintaining the cultural significance of a cultural property. Including preservation, restoration, reconstruction, protection, adaptation, etc.

Conservation

refers to government agencies with their specific area of responsibility.

Cultural agencies

refers to main guiding document for the conservation and management of immovable cultural properties. States what is significant about a place, what policies and actions are appropriate.

CMP - Conservation Management Plan

refers to:

-(NCCA)

-(NMP) National Museum of the Philippines

-(NLP) National Library of the Philippines

-(NHCP) National Historical Commission of the Philippines

-(NAP) National Archives of the Philippines

-(CCP) Cultural Center of the Philippines

-(KWF) Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino

Cultural Agencies

agency for cultural property

National Museum of the Philippines (NMP)

agency for books

National Library of the Philippines (NLP)

agency for documents

National Archives of the Philippines (NAP)

agency for culture and the arts

Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)

agency for language

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF)

refers to teaching and learning cultural concepts and processes.

Cultural education

refers to the totality of cultural property preserved and developed through time and passed on the future generations.

Cultural heritage

refers to an individual engaged in cultural heritage work.

Cultural heritage worker

refers to entities engaged primary in cultural work.

Cultural institution

refers to identification, recording, and use of cultural resources of communities. Systematic set of activities and methodological processes for discovering, documenting, analyzing, interpreting, presenting and sharing information related to people

Cultural Mapping

refers to all products of human creativity by which people and a nation reveal their identity. (eg. churches, mosque, and others)

Cultural property

refers to natural or juridical persons who acquire cultural property for the purpose of engaging in the acquisition and disposition of the same.

Dealers

refers to school buildings designed by American Architect William Parsons and funded through act No. 1801 authored by Assemblyman Isauro Gabaldon

Gabaldon School buildings

refers to single, unified geographical areas where sites and landscapes considered by UNESCO

Global geoparks

refer to houses of ancestry of notable historical, cultural, social, architectural, and artistic value and significance, as declared by NHCP

Heritage houses

refers to trees that share common and extensive histories with the people in places which they are found

Heritage Trees

refers to historical, anthropological, archaeological, artistic geographical areas and settings that are culturally significant. Declared by the pertinent cultural agencies.

Heritage Zone

shall refer to a place name that been in existence for at least 50 years, and has become historic overtime.

Historic place names

refers to a street name which existed at least 50 years and considered historic overtime.

Historical street name

refers to written accounts of past events relating to Philippine history.

History

refers to cultural property that has exceptional cultural, artistic, and historical significance to the Philippines. declared by law or pertinent agency.

Important cultural property

refers to practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and skills, as well as instruments, objects, and artifacts associated therewith communities and individuals recognize as part of cultural heritage.

Intangible cultural heritage

1. oral traditions, languages, expressions

2. performing arts

3. social practices, rituals, festive events

4. knowledge and practices - nature and universe

5. traditional craftsmanship

Intangible cultural heritage

refers to peoples’ learned processes along with the knowledge and skills, informed and developed by them, the products created, and the resources, spaces, and other aspects of social and natural context that are necessary for sustainability.

Intangible cultural property

refers to an institution where collection of books and other materials are organized. with a librarian.

Library

refers to sites with a marker from a cultural agency

Marked structures

refer to the documentary heritage inscribed by UNESCO because of its international significance and its outstanding universal value

Memory of the World Register

refers to permanent institution that exhibits the materials.

Museum

refers to a unique cultural property found locally, possessing outstanding value which is highly significant to the country. Officially declared as such by pertinent cultural agency.

National cultural treasure

refers to sites or structures that are associated with events or achievements significant to Philippine history as declared by the NHCP.

National historical Landmarks

refers to structures that honor illustrious persons or commemorate events of historical value as declared by the NHCP.

National historical monuments

refers to historical sites or structures hallowed and revered for their history or association as declared by the NHCP.

National historical shrines

refers to historical (or others) values that unify the nation by a deep sense of pride in diverse yet common identities.

Nationally significant

refers to flora and fauna, physical, geological, and physiographical formations of the environment.

Natural Heritage

refers to natural heritage property of cultural significance for its tangible or intangible cultural heritage. Whether or not covered by the Expanded National Integrated Protected Area System (ENIPAS) Act of 2018 (R.A. no. 11038) or by other laws.

Natural property of cultural significance

refers to specific domain in the commission’s online databases where digitalized cultural maps are lodge for public information, research, and academic purposes. Includes the Philippine registry of heritage.

NCCA Portal Cultural Databank

refers to the period of human history preceding the introduction of the forms of writing.

Prehistory

refers to returning a cultural property, or a portion thereof, to a known earlier state by adding new materials, forms, methodologies, and technology. Includes; 1. re-creation, 2. replication

Reconstruction

refers to the Philippine Registry of Heritage, which is a repository of the listing, documentation, and statements of all significant properties of the country deemed locally and nationally significant.

Registry

refers to the repair of a cultural property to its original condition.

Restoration

refers to cultural property with value, and with exceptional or traditional production, whether of Philippine origin or not. (eg. antiques, national history specimens)

Tangible cultural property

refers to (1) representative list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity and (2) list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding.

UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage

refer to rare, unique wetlands recognized by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Wetlands of International Importance or Ramsar Sites

refer to cultural and natural heritage properties considered to be outstanding universal value to humanity that are inscribes in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

World Heritage Sites (WHS)

refer to the inventory of properties submitted to UNESCO which each State party intends to consider for nomination to the World Heritage List

World Heritage Tentative List

refers to the list of terrestrials, marine, and coastal ecosystems considered by the UNESCO to be of world significance.

World Network of Biosphere Reserves’