The United Nations cultural organization UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1998 - a designation for places of special physical or cultural value.

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It's too early to tell what the impact on learning will be from open course ware but we know from messages people have sent us that educators see tremendous value in being able to use the site to build work upon others.

现在还不好说,但是通过人们发来的邮件我们知道了,教育者对于能够在别人的基础上,展开自己的工作给予很高赞扬,他们现在可以节约下时间。

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As an example, a potential application for an auto manufacturer pushing test drives on its website could be able to measure the value of all test drives booked on the site, and the value of those booked after being referred from social media sites.

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This site demonstrates the value of collaboration between archaeologists, local community members and divers to enhance our knowledge of underwater cultural heritage in Scotland.

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The site, whose value is created by the personal information eagerly handed over by its hundreds of millions of users, wanted to maintain a sense that those users were in control of how that information was being used by Facebook.

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