What is OUV?

What is OUV?
Defining the Outstanding Universal Value of Cultural World Heritage Properties

Jukka Jokilehto
https://www.patrimoinebati.umontreal.ca/en/research-projects/active-projects/oral-archives-of-the-world-heritage-convention/jukka-jokilehto/
Christina Cameron 크리스티나 카메룬
Michel Parent 미셸 파렌트
Michael Petzet 마이클 페체트
https://www.iccrom.org/news/michael-albert-petzet-1933-2019

The World Heritage List

What is OUV?

Defining the Outstanding Universal Value of Cultural World Heritage Properties

 

I. Introduction

II. What is Outstanding Universal Value (OUV)?

II.01. The UNESCO Convention

II.02. UNESCO Expert Meeting, 1976

II.03. First Definitions of OUV by the Committee

II.04. Report by Michel Parent, 1979

II.05. Global Strategy Meeting in Amsterdam, 1998

II.06. Operational Guidelines, 2005

II.07. Kazan Meeting on OUV, 2005

II.08. Terminological Considerations / 용어 고려사항들

III. Justification of the WH Criteria

Thematic Framework

III.01. Criterion (i) (Masterpiece)

III.02. Criterion (ii) (Values/Influences)

III.03. Criterion (iii) (Testimony)

III.04. Criterion (iv) (Typology)

III.05. Criterion (v) (Land-Use)

III.06. Criterion (vi) (Associations)

III.07. Criterion (vii) (Natural Beauty)

IV. Use of the Criteria

IV.01. Criteria as Applied per Property

IV.02. Evolving Application of Criteria

IV.03. Discrepancies in the Evaluation Process / 평가항목의 불일치

IV.04. Application of One Sole Criterion

V. Other Requirements for Inscription

Authenticity

Integrity

VI. Reasons for Non-Inscription

VII. Conclusions and Recommendations

Annexes

Annex 1 A: UNESCO Meeting in Morges (1976)

Annex 1 B: ICCROM on OUV (1976)

Annex 1 C: ICOMOS on World Heritage Criteria (1976)

Annex 1 D: Michel Parent, Report on WH Criteria (1979)

Annex 1 E: World Heritage Expert Meeting, Amsterdam (1998)

Annex 1 F: World Heritage Expert Meeting, Kazan (2005)

Annex 1 G: Christina Cameron, Keynote Paper in Kazan (2005)

Annex 2 A: Changes to World Heritage Criteria in different versions of the Operational Guidelines

Annex 2 B: Compendium of World Heritage Sites and Criteria

Annex 3 A: Brief Descriptions of Sites inscribed in 2005–2007

Annex 3 B: Index of World Heritage Cultural and Mixed Properties