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ENCOURAGING ICH SAFEGUARDING THROUGH AN ONLINE SYSTEM: ICHPEDIA PROJECT
Complying with UNESCO’s safeguarding policy for ICH, Korea’s Cultural Heritage Administration attempted to initiate a digital inventory project in 2010. A group of researchers of the different fields including ICH specialists, folklorists, anthropologists, and computer scientists joined this project. I participated in this project as director. The project team endeavored to develop a new experimental ICH inventorying methodology using a new concept of collective intelligence and advanced information ethnologies. The team established Ichpedia, a web-based ICH inventory and archives in Korea.
HanHee Hahm Professor of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, Chonbuk National University
2015