Cultural metadata enhancement by using community-driven approach to create digital holistic culture conservation system

Abstract

The biggest problem when conserving cultural information in digital form is figuring out when the stored information has been well structured and meet the needs of the cultural information seeker. Several researches have shown community involvement in creating metadata as the cultural data structure. Now, the problem is how the metadata should be constructed to meet the cultural information seeker’s needs that can be changed over time. The structure should cover the holistic items of the culture, not one cultural item only. This preliminary research is to determine how far a community-driven effect can enhance cultural metadata structure processes as the conservation standard for the cultural information structure through study processes of literature. By knowing current cultural metadata structures and community involvement experiences, holistic metadata structure and digital holistic cultural conservation system can be built.