Άυλη πολιτιστική κληρονομιά και πληθοπορισμός
Intangible cultural heritage and crowdsourcing
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Keywords
Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά ; Άυλη πολιτιστική κληρονομιά ; Μεταδεδομένα ; Πληθοπορισμός ; Cultural heritage ; Intangible cultural heritage ; Metadata ; CrowdsourcingAbstract
The value of preserving of tangible and intangible cultural heritage is recognized by the international community and it is protected in a variety of ways as it represents the past, culture and identity of the human communities. Current digital technologies have helped to manage, preserve and make more widely accessible a large part of this world cultural heritage through the digital collections of museums, libraries, archives and other cultural and information institutions. The aim of the work is to attempt to present the important international and national initiatives for the protection of cultural heritage with an emphasis on its intangible dimension and to explore current methods for the digital preservation of its collections. The paper has two main parts. The first part relates to the concept of cultural heritage and the initiatives for its protection and the modern methods for the digital preservation of cultural goods. In addition, the second part explores the model of crowdsourcing and its applications to the projects of collections’ enrichment of the cultural sector institutions.