Digital Data Establishment of Cultural Heritage in the Republic of Korea
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Manage No DI00000821 Country Republic of Korea Author Yeon Gyu Choi (Deputy Director, ICT Management Office Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) of Korea) Published Year 2020 Language English Copyright Attach File View (ENG)

Description | The Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea (CHA) is a governmental organization that plans and implements cultural heritage policy in the Republic of Korea. CHA has Director of ICT management in charge of plan and implementation of master plans for digitalization and information of cultural heritage and database construction and management of archival information about preservation and management of cultural heritage. This report introduces two main projects that are part of CHA’s digital data construction of cultural heritage: the “3D Database Construction of Cultural Heritage” and the “Seoul City Wall Time Machine”. Establishment of 3D Database of Cultural Heritage CHA has used cutting-edge digital technologies to document original forms of cultural heritage and their changes in order to obtain and use raw data for restoration of cultural heritage that is destroyed or damaged. CHA has also carried out state-led projects of digital archiving to collect, share and perpetually save archives produced by each governmental department and provincial government. |
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