VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES AND ONLINE EDUCATION FOR DIGITAL HERITAGE INVENTORY DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE
Consortium for Earthquake-Damaged Cultural Heritage (CEDACH) is a voluntary initiative launched just after the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011. The consortium is developing a social network between local cultural resource managers restoring disaster-damaged cultural heritage on one si...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2013-07-01
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| Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Online Access: | https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-5-W2/391/2013/isprsarchives-XL-5-W2-391-2013.pdf |
| Summary: | Consortium for Earthquake-Damaged Cultural Heritage (CEDACH) is a voluntary initiative launched just after the Great East Japan
Earthquake on 11 March 2011. The consortium is developing a social network between local cultural resource managers restoring
disaster-damaged cultural heritage on one side and remote researchers including historians, archaeologists and specialists of cultural
information studies on the other side, in order to facilitate collaborative projects. This paper presents three projects in which CEDACH
contributed to the development of a digital inventory for disaster-damaged heritage management through web-based collaborations
by self-motivated workers. The first project, CEDACH GIS, developed an online archaeological site inventory for the disaster area.
Although a number of individuals voluntarily participated in the project at the beginning, it gradually stagnated due to limited need for
local rescue archaeology. However, the experience of online-based collaborations worked well for the second project proposed by local
specialists, in which CEDACH restored the book catalogue of a tsunami-devastated research library. This experience highlighted the
need for online education to improve information and communication technologies (ICT) skills of data builders. Therefore, in the third
project called CEDACHeLi, an e-Learning management system was developed to facilitate learning the fundamental knowledge and
techniques required for information processing in rescue operations of disaster-damaged cultural heritage. This system will contribute
to improved skills and motivation of potential workers for further developments in digital heritage inventory. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1750 2194-9034 |