Abstract
In recent years, the number of digital projects aimed at documenting and preserving communities' intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has grown considerably. Nevertheless, most of these resources do not allow non-professional people to contribute to them. As a result, professional accounts of cultural heritage might miss out the finer-grained knowledge about communities' customs and traditions. This paper tries to show how the creation of community digital archives allowing an 'anyone can edit' approach on wiki software gives a better representation of communities' ICH, as well as representing an affordable and sustainable interactive digital presence for historical communities.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 85-88 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | The 18th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015). - , Canada Duration: 14 Mar 2015 → 18 Mar 2015 |
Conference
| Conference | The 18th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015). |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| Period | 14/03/15 → 18/03/15 |
Bibliographical note
The research described here is supported by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1.Keywords
- Intangible cultural heritage
- wikis
- community empowerment