Abstract
The digital rights management of museums is a mechanism that protects digital content from being abused by controlling and managing its usage rights. Traditional museums attach importance to the collection, display, research, and education functions of “objects”. In response to natural or man-made disasters, people are often caught off guard, destroying material, intangible assets, and spiritual symbolism. Therefore, with the advancement of digital technology, this research is based on the mechanism of blockchain, through the authorization of cryptographic proxy re-encryption, and proposes a new method for the preservation and authorization of digital content in museums, which can effectively display, store, and promote “important cultural relics and digital archives”. In this research, the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA), blockchain, and smart contracts are used to design a sustainable and traceable cultural relic exhibition mechanism. The proposed scheme achieves publicly verifiable, transparency, unforgeability, traceability, non-repudiation, standardization of stored data, timeliness, etc., goals. It is the museum’s preservation and innovation approach for the unpredictable future. Through appropriate preservation and management mechanisms, it has extremely important practical significance for the protection of museum collections, the inheritance of historical and cultural heritage, and the expansion of social education.
Highlights
The museum has collections, displays, research, education, and dissemination of human history and cultural heritage
When the Digital Content Administrator (DCA) sends a message signed by Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) to the Applicant, the Applicant will first verify the correctness of the time stamp and signature, generate blockchain data BCDCA− A = h(r DCA− A, s DCA− A ), and use IDBC as an index to upload the blockchain data to the Blockchain Center (BCC)
Its service boundaries will be spread through the Internet and become wider, expanding the museum’s mission of social education sustainability; the digital archives of important cultural relics must still be protected through appropriate mechanisms
Summary
The museum has collections, displays, research, education, and dissemination of human history and cultural heritage. As for the issue of digital rights management, even in the past, Chen et al [5,6,7] proposed algorithm research on the digital content rights protection technology based on mobile devices for enterprises. This paper aims to be a pioneer in research on museum digital rights and proposes a new authorization mechanism. Blockchain is comprised of point-to-point transmission, a consensus mechanism, a smart contract, an encryption algorithm, and a distributed data record list storage technology system. This system can realize the tamperproof data storage, traceable data viewing, and trusted point-to-point transmission to solve the problem of trust construction without third-party supervision.
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