DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN PRESERVATION OF BUDDIST MONASTERY TREASURES

Treasure Caretaker Training (Digital Monastery Project), teaches Buddhist monks, nuns and community cultural caretakers to protect and preserve their own monastery sacred art treasures. Participants learn to create digital inventories by use of their own mobile phones. Included in this documentati...

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Main Author: A. Shaftel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-08-01
Series:The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W5/649/2017/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W5-649-2017.pdf
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Summary:Treasure Caretaker Training (Digital Monastery Project), teaches Buddhist monks, nuns and community cultural caretakers to protect and preserve their own monastery sacred art treasures. Participants learn to create digital inventories by use of their own mobile phones. Included in this documentation is the video interview of elders who hold the oral history of many of the treasures. Risk assessment and disaster mitigation are taught.
ISSN:1682-1750
2194-9034