Identification, Preservation and Management of Cultural Heritage of Edirne, Turkey by Means of a Web-Based Application

Abstract

Cultural Heritage can be expressed as the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including places, objects, practices, customs, values and artistic expressions. The care of its historical memory reveals the degree of civilization and morality of a city and/or country. In this regard, digitization plays a key role for conserving, maintaining and sharing cultural assets.  In this study, an online access platform for conserving, maintaining and sharing the cultural assets of Edirne has been developed. Firstly, a new digitization and archiving application has been developed and integrated into existing library automation systems. Second, after obtaining their copyrights, available books, magazines and other printed materials have been scanned, indexed, abstracted and archived in the database of the online access platform. Finally, the digitized materials in the online access platform have been made publicly available. The project realized in this study will both enable to digitally conserve the available cultural assets of Edirne and hand them down to the next generations.

Keywords

• Edirne
• Cultural heritage
• Preservation
• Online database
• Digitization

References

1. Al-Barakati, A., White, M., & Patoli, Z. (2014). The application of workflow management to digital heritage resources. International Journal of Information Management, 34(2014), 660-671.
2. Aplin, G. (2002). Heritage: identification, conservation and management. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
3. Barak, M., Herscoviz, O., Kaberman, Z., & Dori, Y. J. (2009). MOSAICA: A web-2.0 based system for the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage. Computers&Education, 53, 841-852.
4. Dimoulas, C. A., Kalliris, G. M., Chatzara, E. G., Tsipas, N. K., Papanikolaou, G. V. (2014). Audiovisual production, restoration-archiving and content management methods to preserve local tradition and folkloric heritage. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 15, 234-241.
5. Ekwelem, V. O., Okafor, V. N., & Ukwoma, S. C. (2011). Preservation of Cultural Heritage: The Strategic Role of the Library and Information Science Professionals in South East Nigeria. Library Philosophy and Practice, 95.
6. Kioussi, A., Karoglou, M., Labropoulos, K., Bakolas, A., & Moropoulou, A. (2013). Integrated documentation protocols enabling decision making in cultural heritage protection. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 14S(2013), e141–e146.
7. Meyer, E., Grussenmeyer, P., Perrin, J. -P., Durand, A., & Drap, P. (2007). A web information system for the management and the dissemination of Cultural Heritage Data. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 8, 396-411.
8. Ongena, G., Huizer, E., & Wijngaert, L. (2012). Threats and opportunities for new audiovisual cultural heritage archive services: The Dutch case. Telematics and Informatics, 29, 156-165.

9. Pavlidis, G., Koutsoudis, A., Arnaoutoglou, F., Tsioukas, V., & Chamzas, C. (2007). Methods for 3D digitization of Cultural Heritage. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 8(1), 93-98.
10. Pieraccini, M., Guidi, G., & Atzeni, C. (2001). 3D digitizing of cultural heritage. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2(1), 63-70.