Abstract
Abstract. This paper will set a comparison of current digital database models in China and its successful-proven predecessors in Germany. It will analyse applied tools, structures, targets, and results to identify the potentials and conditions for digital registers specifically aimed at Traditional Chinese Gardens. The challenges of data collection, database maintenance and regular updating, user handling, as well as analysis performance and evaluation will be discussed. A focus will be set on heritage-related attributes as one of the main purposes of the database. By using best-practice examples of German database systems, the paper aims on both identifying the required key attributes for traditional Chinese Garden management and developing a new guideline for digitally-supported heritage preservation and protective maintenance in traditional Chinese Gardens in China.
Highlights
In the past decades, throughout the hastiness of China’s rapid urbanisation, comprehensive urban maintenance and historic preservation has been largely neglected in favour for continuous construction and expansion
A significant and valuable part of green spaces in China is represented by Traditional Chinese Gardens (TCG)
This article will study the specific attributes of traditional Chinese Gardens (TCG) and their requirements towards maintenance and preservation
Summary
Throughout the hastiness of China’s rapid urbanisation, comprehensive urban maintenance and historic preservation has been largely neglected in favour for continuous construction and expansion. In comparison to the typical urban parks and recreational green, TCG were built for specific purposes or for significant persons and families as a refuge for thinking, creativity or relaxation With their ornamental and extremely vulnerable elements, TCG nowadays are endangered by hordes of visitors, pollution and urban construction. For Traditional Chinese Gardens, the urban oases of unique design and cultural value, digital applications have not been developed on a larger scale to allow comparison and standardisation. For those types of historic gardens, with their vulnerable and endangered elements and features, a manageable digital platform would be of great benefit for heritage preservation. It is important to clarify, to which extent digital applications can support maintenance and protection efforts for TCG in China, and what kind of preconditions those applications might underlie
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