scholarly journals Balancing sustainable development and cultural heritage preservation: luxury burial legacies in Singapore

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ocón
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Burial Customs ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

PurposeThe paper aims to provide up-to-date analysis on how a country like Singapore, with a rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage associated with burial customs, approaches heritage preservation while ensuring modernisation and sustainable growth.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is an exploratory analysis of the association between cultural heritage preservation, particularly the one associated with elaborate burials, and the need for modernisation in Singapore. It mainly uses desk research tools, fieldwork and interviews with death services providers to build a set of conclusions. It employs a historical review approach and uses comparative analyses with other countries in the Asian region to substantiate the arguments.FindingsThe paper provides insights about how, since its independence, Singapore has switched to pragmatic models of growth and development which imply maximising the limited space available, often at the cost of precious cultural heritage. The rapid development has had a significant impact on the country's burial customs and legacies, particularly on elaborate graves and tombs, which traditionally use a considerable amount of space. The analysis concludes that Singapore is in the constant challenge of exploring alternative ways of handling death and its ramifications.Originality/valueThis paper presents a new outlook on the relationship between the preservation of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage associated with death practices and a sustainable approach to modernisation in the context of Singapore.

scholarly journals 3D technologies for intangible cultural heritage preservation—literature review for selected databases

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska ◽  
Marek Milosz ◽  
Pawel Powroznik ◽  
Edyta Lukasik
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Research Centres ◽  
Motion Capture Systems ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

AbstractConservation of cultural heritage is nowadays a very important aspect of our lives. Thanks to such legacy we gain knowledge about our ancestors, methods of production and ways of their life. The rapid development of 3D technology allows for more and more faithful reflection of this area of life. The rich cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, can be preserved for future generations due to the use of advanced 3d technologies. They provide the means of documenting, recovering and presenting items of cultural heritage. Not only buildings or monuments are taken into account. An important aspect of our culture is intangible cultural heritage (ICH), including acting, crafting or storytelling, passed down from generation to generation. Due to the rapid development of civilisation and the migration of people, this type of culture is often forgotten. That is why the preservation of ICH is an important element of today world. The main aim of this study, on the basis of the gathered papers, is to identify: (1) the general state of use of 3D digital technologies in ICH; (2) the topics and themes discussed; (3) the technologies used in the study; (4) locations of research centres conducting such studies; and (5) the types of research carried out. The methodology consists of the following main steps: defining study questions, searching query development, selection of publications in Scopus, Web of Knowledge and IEEE Xplore, finally the study execution and the analysis of the obtained results. The results show that for ICH the most often used technologies are: 3D visualisation, 3D modelling, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and motion capture systems.

JPEG 2000: guide for digital libraries

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-263
Author(s):  
David Barina ◽  
Ondrej Klima
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Rate Distortion ◽  
Jpeg 2000 ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Compression Performance ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

Purpose The joint photographic experts group (JPEG) 2000 image compression system is being used for cultural heritage preservation. The authors are aware of over a dozen of big memory institutions worldwide using this format. This paper aims to review and explain choices for end users to help resolve trade-offs that these users are likely to encounter in practice. Design/methodology/approach The JPEG 2000 format is quite complex and therefore sometimes considered as a preservation risk. A lossy compression is governed by a number of parameters that control compression speed and rate-distortion trade-off. Their inappropriate adjustment may fairly easily lead to sub-optimal compression performance. This paper provides general guidelines for selecting the most appropriate parameters for a specific application. Findings This paper serves as a guide for the preservation of digital heritage in cultural heritage institutions, including libraries, archives and museums. Originality/value This paper serves as a guide for the preservation of digital heritage in cultural heritage institutions, including libraries, archives and museums.

scholarly journals PLANNING BY USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES – A CASE STUDY OF QIONG-LIN SETTLEMENT IN KINMEN AREA

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W5 ◽  
pp. 719-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Yang ◽  
Y. N. Ye
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

ICOMOS Florence Declaration in 2014, encourages an in-depth reflection on human values through cultural heritage and landscapes, which emphasizes the importance of historical heritage sites, in order to achieve the application of cultural heritage records through the public participation, sharing new technology platform and facilitation tools for knowledge diffusion, for instance. Nikos adopted digitized intangible cultural heritage within i-Treasures project to create a novel digital platform in 2016. Nowadays, the display platform developed based on geographic information system has been gradually accepted and widely used to distribute cultural heritage information, aiming to combine geography, time, events, issues, trends with the interactive maps to show the context of data changes from the consideration of planarity; for example, Burnaby City in Canada has cooperated with the Columbia University to create a navigation platform for guidance of tangible cultural heritage based on story maps in order to provide public recognition function.<br><br> In this study, Qiong-Lin Settlement in Kinmen Area was taken as an example to illustrate the developing process of an overall planning framework for reappearing the glory of historic settlements of cultural heritage sites with digital technology, which included tangible and intangible cultural heritage preservation and transmission planning, community participation and digital navigation programs. The digital technology with the GIS-based digital platform can provide more diverse and interesting information while using an intuitive, graphical user story mapping interface. So that tangible cultural heritage can be effectively understood, interpreted and preserved with the value-added methods, and also intangible cultural heritage can be continuously transmitted to establish a complete system of cultural heritage preservation. The main contents include several navigation technologies, such as 3D laser scanning, UAV images, photogrammetry, panorama, audio/video, geographic information systems etc.

Is There an “Islamic” Practice for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage?

2020 ◽  
pp. 689-705
Author(s):  
Trinidad Rico
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation ◽  
The Way

This discussion features an ongoing conversation that seeks to reveal the way that preservation practices arise from or react to uniquely “Islamic” articulations of material and immaterial cultural traditions. Although the aim of this debate is to further ethical cultural heritage preservation practices, it reveals a tension between two intellectual debates within critical heritage studies: on the one hand, a concern for the study, articulation, and stewardship of alternative heritage preservation approaches and, on the other hand, a concern with a tendency in heritage preservation to Orientalize “non-Western” heritage preservation practices as forcefully distinct from long-established “Western” practices.

scholarly journals Digital Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Malini Wan Isa ◽  
Nor Azan Mat Zin ◽  
Fadhilah Rosdi ◽  
Hafiz Mohd Sarim
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Preservation Methods ◽  
Preservation Method ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

<p>Cultural heritage reflects a society’s identity, hence should be protected and preserved for the future generation. Digital preservation is significant for cultural heritage since there are a lot of important knowledge and collections of manuscripts and artefacts which need to be preserved to ensure sustainability for future generations. However, there is still a lack in digital preservation methods for cultural heritage especially intangible cultural heritage. This paper discusses cultural heritage and results of a study on intangible cultural heritage preservation. An interview with five experts in intangible cultural heritage domain has been carried out.  Results show that level of awareness of preserving intangible cultural heritage is still low. In addition, the heritage practitioners - artisans and craftsmen keep the knowledge and skills in their memory as preservation method.  Thus the knowledge depend on individual practitioners since no documentation is made. Informants are also aware of the importance of digitalization of intangible cultural heritage knowledge for the preservation and safeguard.</p>

scholarly journals Improving Accessibility to Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation Using Virtual Reality

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmedin Selmanović ◽  
Selma Rizvic ◽  
Carlo Harvey ◽  
Dusanka Boskovic ◽  
Vedad Hulusic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation
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