Utility of Digital Technologies for the Sustainability of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in Korea

Kim, Seulah; Im, Dong-uk; Jong‐Oh, Lee; Choi, Hee-Jae

doi:10.3390/su11216117

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“…However, they may not be sufficient in providing an engaging experience . Virtual reality (VR), being an immersive technology, can deliver the virtual experience for users to engage and interact with the ICH [ 8 ]. In fact, a multimodal exhibition for this project involving the display of Miao embroidery items in a physical venue, the launch of this digital museum, and a station for an immersive VR experience of the exhibits were planned to be conducted in Spring 2020.…”

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“…To embrace the evolving potential of digital environments and multimedia in creating and distributing cultural content, more and more digital museums have been established worldwide to exhibit collections of digitized cultural heritage [ 7 ]. Over the recent two decades, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has been receiving increasing attention after the UNESCO acknowledged its significance via the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003 [ 8 ]. While people living in modern cities may have limited opportunities of experiencing ICH due to the often small numbers of its successors, digital museums help not only make institutionalized documentation of ICH but also promote public understanding and appreciation [ 9 ].…”

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Development and Evaluation of a Digital Museum of a National Intangible Cultural Heritage from China

Liu

2021

Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue

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Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) such as traditional craftsmanship lacks a physical form and often originates from minority groups with little documentation. Digital technologies can be leveraged for documenting and archiving these assets of humanity. In particular, digital museums are established for promoting public understanding and appreciation of cultural heritage. Despite the richness of ICH in China, the development of digital museums of ICH is still in an early stage and mostly from government endeavours. As part of an inter-disciplinary collaborative project involving academic researchers, information professionals, and a private not-for-profit museum, this paper described the development of Gifts from Lanmama, a digital museum of Miao embroidery as a unique ICH from Guizhou ethnic minorities in China. This paper also reported a preliminary evaluation of the digital museum with 78 users, in terms of its usability and affordance for learning about cultural heritage. Results revealed the strengths of the digital museum in terms of the rigor of metadata and its impact on improving users’ understanding and appreciation of Miao embroidery. Some issues and challenges were also identified, such as the lack of channels for user-system communication. These evaluation results offer insights for further improving the digital museum and other end-user oriented digital presentations of similar ICH.

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Development and Evaluation of a Digital Museum of a National Intangible Cultural Heritage from China

Liu

2021

Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue

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“…One of the most prominent elements of this transformation is the widespread use of virtual spaces and social networks, not only to disseminate ICH, but also for new practices [8,23]. Theoretical debates on the relationship between ICH and the virtual space have already contributed to an abundant literature that helps us to understand the reach of these transformations.…”

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The Sustainability of Intangible Heritage in the COVID-19 Era—Resilience, Reinvention, and Challenges in Spain

2021

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The public health restrictions and social distancing imposed as a consequence of COVID-19 have not only had a profound impact on intangible heritage, they have also prompted resilience, reinvention, and creativity. This analysis of the period provides an insight into the social significance of intangible heritage and its adaptability and ability to evolve, while also raising questions about its sustainability. This article tackles the impact of lockdown and public health restrictions on the festivals included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Heritage in Spain. Employing qualitative and ethnographic methodology, the study analyzes the effects of restrictions on the 18 elements on the UNESCO list and the responses adopted; it also includes case studies on three elements. The article concludes that in the post-COVID-19 period, it will be necessary to rethink the economic and social sustainability of intangible heritage practices and to discover new ways of managing them. It will also be necessary to go back to more local formats that are less crowded and less dependent on tourism. The pandemic has exposed the fragility of intangible heritage, and it is now time to rethink the perhaps excessive growth it has experienced in recent years.

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“…In the field of cultural relics and museums, intelligent navigation includes relatively in-depth research on equipment development, positioning technology, digital content (Huang et al, 2019;Kim et al, 2019), and user experience (Wang, 2019). However, from the perspective of meaning innovation, the function and efficiency of displaying communication content in the navigation system are still insufficient.…”

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“…With the increasing popularity of intangible cultural heritage exhibition activities after the integration of culture and tourism, the research attention and depth has also increased in the field of intangible cultural heritage display. Some scholars (Huang et al, 2019;Kim et al, 2019;Tan et al, 2020) believe that previous research on the design content of intangible cultural heritage exhibitions primarily focused on the "how" of the design, and not on the "why" (Verganti, 2016).…”

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A Meaning-Aware Cultural Tourism Intelligent Navigation System Based on Anticipatory Calculation

Meng

Liu

2021

Front. Psychol.

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To improve the personalized service of cultural tourism, anticipatory calculation has become an essential technology in the content design of intelligence navigation system. Culture tourism, as a form of leisure activity, is being favored by an increasing number of people, which calls for further improvements in the cultural consumption experience. An important component of cultural tourism is for tourists to experience intangible cultural heritage projects with local characteristics. However, from the perspective of user needs and the content adaptive system, there are few suitable intelligent navigation and user demand anticipatory systems for intangible cultural heritage content. Purple clay culture is one of the first batches of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects in China. Therefore, taking purple clay culture exhibition as an example, this paper attempts to analyze the personalized information demand of tourism consumption experience in intangible cultural heritage communication activities with affective computing and meaning-driven innovative design method, by taking the content design in the navigation system as the research object. This paper uses the theory of planned behavior to calculate the relationship between tourists’ attitude, experience behavior, and display information demand. The findings indicate two issues. First, tourists’ demand for the entertainment and leisure attributes of intangible cultural heritage is greater than the demand for educational function attributes. Second, the meaning elements of information can change tourists’ beliefs in intangible cultural heritage and affect their attitude and behavior toward such heritage. According to the research results, strengthening the meaning elements of specific group information can improve people’s cultural identity and tourism satisfaction. The research results provide the basis for the content design direction of future museum intelligent navigation systems.

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Utility of Digital Technologies for the Sustainability of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in Korea

Cited by 62 publications

References 13 publications

Development and Evaluation of a Digital Museum of a National Intangible Cultural Heritage from China

Development and Evaluation of a Digital Museum of a National Intangible Cultural Heritage from China

The Sustainability of Intangible Heritage in the COVID-19 Era—Resilience, Reinvention, and Challenges in Spain

A Meaning-Aware Cultural Tourism Intelligent Navigation System Based on Anticipatory Calculation

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