Abstract
In this paper, a representation based on digital assets and semantic annotations is established for Traditional Craft instances, in a way that captures their socio-historic context and preserves both their tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage dimensions. These meaningful and documented experiential presentations are delivered to the target audience through narratives that address a range of uses, including personalized storytelling, interactive Augmented Reality (AR), augmented physical artifacts, Mixed Reality (MR) exhibitions, and the Web. The provided engaging cultural experiences have the potential to have an impact on interest growth and tourism, which can support Traditional Craft communities and institutions. A secondary impact is the attraction of new apprentices through training and demonstrations that guarantee long-term preservation. The proposed approach is demonstrated in the context of textile manufacturing as practiced by the community of the Haus der Seidenkultur, a former silk factory that was turned into a museum where the traditional craft of Jacquard weaving is still practiced.
Highlights
The German city of Krefeld was known as the “silk city”, and is the location where the Haus der Seidenkultur (HdS), a former silk factory that was turned into a museum, still practices the traditional craft of Jacquard weaving
The technical implementation of the approach for the formal and digital representation of the crafting process is supported by the Mingei Online Platform (MOP) [43], where digital assets and semantic metadata are organized in a formal representation compatible with contemporary digital preservation standards
The collected data are acquired from media objects, which are an abstraction for digital recordings such as images, video, 3D scanners, and Motion Capture (MoCap), and their technical metadata
Summary
The success of assisting Cultural Heritage (CH) valorization through digital technologies (availability, accessibility, and engaging and interactive presentations) is due to the captivating content of stories, memories, and meaning that CH offers. Crafts (TCs) have a paramount cultural value and offer a thematic thesaurus of stories and narratives related to the origins of modern societies, history, and culture, the origins of industrial development and design, economic factors and societal outcomes, as well as, personal and family memories, all of which general audiences can relate to. We aim to capitalize on the existing literature and repositories and integrate mature approaches and technologies for the modeling, representation, and digital preservation of CH in a way that is meaningful to the contemporary needs of this domain. The biggest threat to TC viability is due to the declining numbers of practitioners and apprentices [1]
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