Cultural heritage preservation by using blockchain technologies

Trček, Denis (author)

Ubiquitous digitization enables promising options for cultural heritage preservation. Therefore, a new approach is presented that considers deployment scenarios by linking heritage science to tourism. Such an approach is necessary because neither technology nor society views can be treated separately to obtain deployable solutions of a wider social, and even national importance. Clearly, while the traditional approaches to cultural heritage preservation will remain a gold standard, they will be increasingly complemented by digital preservation techniques. Thus, based on practical implementations and lessons learnt in other areas, this multidisciplinary framework paper analyses existing disruptive information technologies deployments. In line with the findings it presents a novel technological architecture tailored to the needs of cultural heritage preservation that deploys an open blockchain architecture. The architecture preserves the advantages of traditional blockchains, which made this technology so important, while enabling energy efficient implementations that can be deployed in mobile applications. By additionally using the contribution-ware principle it links it to tourism, where the identification of users focused incentives and business models play a central role. It is obvious that tourism is a good candidate in such preservation efforts due to the organic links between it and cultural heritage and can support further developments in the heritage preservation domain.

• Language: English
• Keywords: computing, cultural heritage, security, blockchain, e-business, preservation, digitization, business models
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science ; ALUO - Academy of Fine Arts and Design
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 11 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 10, art. 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-145269
• UDC: 004:338.483.13
• ISSN on article: 2050-7445
• DOI: 10.1186/s40494-021-00643-9
• COBISS.SI-ID: 92679683
• Publication date in RUL: 14.04.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Heritage science
• Shortened title: Herit. sci.
• Publisher: SpringerOpen
• ISSN: 2050-7445
• COBISS.SI-ID: 36621317

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: računalništvo, kulturna dediščina, varnost, bločne verige, e-poslovanje

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0359
• Name: Vseprisotno računalništvo