A Smart and Active Way for Protection of Local Cultural Heritages

Abstract

The emergence of mobile Internet technology improved people's life environments, and brought opportunities never seen before for local culture dissemination and protection. Nowadays, many researchers engaged in looking for effective and efficient ways to broadcast and popularize local excellent culture and cultural heritages tangible and intangible supported by new internet technologies. In this research, we analyzed the thinking of how to protect local culture heritages tangible and intangible with new information technology, and then addressed a conception framework for local culture protection. According to this framework, we proposed a museum APP associated with iBeacon technology as a case to illustrate applying the new IT in local culture protection. The main functions of this APP are collection message pushing, relative keyword knowledge, local humanityies, indoor navigation and information center etc. We tested this prototype APP among university students, the questionnaire results indicated that this iBeacon based APP is popular, it can evoke users' interests to local culture knowledge due to the new IT's application.