Authors:
Kosmas Dimitropoulos
1
;
Sotiris Manitsaris
2
;
Filareti Tsalakanidou
1
;
Spiros Nikolopoulos
1
;
Bruce Denby
3
;
Samer Al Kork
3
;
Lise Crevier-Buchman
4
;
Claire Pillot-Loiseau
4
;
Martine Adda-Decker
4
;
Stephane Dupont
5
;
Joelle Tilmanne
5
;
Michela Ott
6
;
Marilena Alivizatou
7
;
Erdal Yilmaz
8
;
Leontios Hadjileontiadis
9
;
Vassilios Charisis
9
;
Olivier Deroo
10
;
Athanasios Manitsaris
11
;
Ioannis Kompatsiaris
12
and
Nikos Grammalidis
12
Affiliations:
1
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
;
2
MINES ParisTech-ARMINES, France
;
3
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France
;
4
Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie UMR 7018, France
;
5
Universite de Mons, Belgium
;
6
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
;
7
University College London, United Kingdom
;
8
Turk Telekom, Turkey
;
9
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
;
10
Acapela Group, Belgium
;
11
University of Macedonia, Greece
;
12
Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Keyword(s):
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Multisensory Capturing and Analysis, Semantic Media Interpretation, Sensorimotor Learning, Transmission and Preservation.
Abstract:
Cultural expression is not limited to architecture, monuments or collections of artifacts. It also includes fragile intangible live expressions, which involve knowledge and skills such as music, dance, singing, theatre, human skills and craftsmanship. These manifestations of human intelligence and creativeness constitute our Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), a basic factor of local cultural identity and a guaranty for sustainable development. In this paper, we briefly introduce the i-Treasures research project, which aims at developing an open and extendable platform to provide access to ICH resources, enable knowledge exchange and contribute to the transmission of rare know-how. The project goes beyond digitization of
cultural content; it creates new knowledge that has never been analysed or studied before through novel methodologies for the analysis and modelling of ICH based on multisensory technology. High-level semantics are extracted enabling researchers to identify possible
implicit or hidden correlations between different ICH expressions or interpretation styles and study the evolution of a specific ICH. Four different ICH cases are studied: traditional songs, dance interactions, pottery and contemporary music composition Combining conventional learning procedures and sensorimotor learning through an interactive 3D environment, i-Treasures breaks new ground in education and knowledge transfer of ICH.
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