TY - STAND AU - L. Martinet AB - One of the few binding provisions in the Convention pertains to the creation by the states of one or several inventories of intangible cultural heritage existing on their territory. The inscription of an element on one of these national lists determines its further registration on one of the Convention’s lists. Hence, every state studied in the framework of the Osmose project, with the exception of Iceland, have undertaken to inventory their intangible cultural heritage. Most of the states even situated the creation and the updating of an inventory at the heart of their policies relating to intangible cultural heritage. For that matter, this task represents often one of the main modalities of participation of communities in the safeguarding of their intangible cultural heritage: either they initiate the inventory of some elements, or they contribute to the inventories. The creation of inventories also sometimes required the adoption of provisions to frame the procedures of incorporation of the elements. DO - 10.4337/9781839100031.00020 LA - English N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Intangible Cultural Herit. Under National and International Law: Going Beyond the 2003 UNESCO Convention N2 - One of the few binding provisions in the Convention pertains to the creation by the states of one or several inventories of intangible cultural heritage existing on their territory. The inscription of an element on one of these national lists determines its further registration on one of the Convention’s lists. Hence, every state studied in the framework of the Osmose project, with the exception of Iceland, have undertaken to inventory their intangible cultural heritage. Most of the states even situated the creation and the updating of an inventory at the heart of their policies relating to intangible cultural heritage. For that matter, this task represents often one of the main modalities of participation of communities in the safeguarding of their intangible cultural heritage: either they initiate the inventory of some elements, or they contribute to the inventories. The creation of inventories also sometimes required the adoption of provisions to frame the procedures of incorporation of the elements. PB - Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. PY - 2020 SN - 9781839100031 (ISBN); 9781839100024 (ISBN) SP - 144 EP - 150 TI - Defining intangible cultural heritage through inventories UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85136378280&doi=10.4337%2f9781839100031.00020&partnerID=40&md5=d4dae5d70da17ddb80d760fa071b381a ER -