Abstract
Because of the numerous types of world heritage that currently exist, UNESCO divides them into four categories: cultural heritage, natural heritage, cultural and heritage dual heritage, and cultural landscape heritage. Taiwan’s Cultural Heritage Preservation Act stipulates that tangible cultural heritage include monuments, historic buildings, commemorative buildings, groups of buildings, archaeological sites, historic sites, cultural landscapes, antiquities, and natural landscapes and natural monuments, whereas its intangible cultural heritage include traditional performing arts, traditional craftsmanship, oral traditions and expressions, folklore, and traditional knowledge and practices. Because of continually increasing tasks associated with cultural heritage management, this study adopted research approaches such as compilation of relevant laws and regulations and interviews with managers to identify their needs in managing cultural heritage. This study posited that digital-based information management is highly conductive to managing cultural heritage. Thus, a dynamic cultural heritage management system was developed to help managers perform various heritage preservation and management-related work. The proposed system enables digitalizing related documents to facilitate their preservation, provides diversified functions that allow managers to conduct remote interactive management, and enables establishing various economical monitoring functions. This study used actual cases of cultural heritage preservation and input data collected from various management tasks into the proposed management system. Accordingly, the management functions of the system were verified successfully. The proposed system can help relevant departments manage cultural heritage, diminish the occurrence of problems concerning heritage management, reduce unnecessary waste of resources, and elevate the management quality of monuments and historical buildings.
Highlights
The life cycle (LC) of a building is the process of its planning, design, construction, use, maintenance, and eventual demolition (The Magic School of Green Technologies
The LC of a cultural heritage building is similar to that of any building except that it begins with a review and registration stage, during which competent authorities organize a committee to review the designation, registration, or revocation of the building in question
The management responsibility of managing historical assets is allocated to individuals, which has complicated the relationships among stakeholders and led to dissipation of assets and conflicts
Summary
Categorizes monuments based on the competent authorities whose jurisdiction they fall into, and divides them into three classes, namely national, municipal, and county (city) level Since amendment of the Cultural Heritage Act in April 1997, the central government is no longer responsible for the management of individual monuments, which has been passed down to cultural affairs bureaus (or equivalent agencies) under county or city governments, thereby substantially increasing the responsibilities of such local-level agencies. Cultural heritages designated as monuments after the amendment were thereafter categorized as “national,” “municipal,” or “county” (city) level monuments instead of based on the prior class system. As awareness of cultural heritage preservation increases, numerous monuments have been recognized as such based on cultural significance as opposed to age; some are aged younger than 50 years old. There are no tools capable of fulfilling all the specific functions required by Cultural Heritage documentation and, due to the complexity of historical assets, there are no solution as flexible and customizable as Cultural
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