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Character Range: 30202–33496

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 Cultural significance   Aesthetic, historic, scientific, social or spiritual value for past, present or future generations. Cultural significance is embodied in the place itself, its fabric, setting, use, associations, meanings, records, related places and related objects. Places may have a range of values for different individuals or groups.
 Fabric                  All the physical material of the place including components, fixtures, contents, and objects.
 Conservation            All the processes of looking after a place so as to retain its cultural significance.
 Maintenance             The continuous protective care of the fabric and setting of a place, and is to be distinguished from repair. Repair involves restoration or reconstruction.
 Preservation            Maintaining the fabric of a place in its existing state and retarding deterioration.
 Restoration             Returning the existing fabric of a place to a known earlier state by removing accretions or by reassembling existing components without the introduction of new material.
 Reconstruction          Returning a place to a known earlier state, which is distinguished from restoration by the introduction of new material into the fabric.
 Adaptation              Modifying a place to suit the existing use or a proposed use.
 Use                     The functions of a place, as well as the activities and practices that may occur at the place.
 Compatible use          A use which respects the cultural significance of a place. Such a use involves no, or minimal, impact on cultural significance.
 Setting                 The area around a place, which may include the visual catchment.
 Related place           A place that contributes to the cultural significance of another place.
 Related object          An object that contributes to the cultural significance of a place but is not at the place.
 Associations            The special connections that exist between people and a place.
 Meanings                Denote what a place signifies, indicates, evokes or expresses.
 Interpretation          All the ways of presenting the cultural significance of a place.

   In addition to the Burra Charter terms, the following have specific meanings within the context of this report:

 Term                           Definition
 Attribute                      A feature that embodies the heritage values of a place.
 Element/Component              A part of an attribute, or individual spaces within a place.
 Authenticity                   This is a measure of the place as an authentic product of its history and of historical processes. Cultural heritage places may meet the conditions of authenticity if their cultural values are faithfully and credibly expressed through a variety of attributes such as form and design, materials and substance, traditions, techniques and management systems, location and setting, language and other forms of intangible heritage, spirit and feeling.
 Integrity                      This is a measure of the wholeness and intactness of the place and its attributes. Examining the conditions of integrity requires assessing the extent to which the place:
                                     * includes all attributes and elements necessary to express its value;