한국 전통 문화유산 콘텐츠개발 현황과 과제

Abstract

The 21st century marks an era of the digital content industry. Today, cultural content is provided in diverse forms such as internet portals, cable television and IPTV. In this context, "historical fantasy content" based on unique national and local cultures is creating a sensation. This trend continues along with the success of cultural content infrastructure projects. One of the examples of such projects would be the national cultural heritage digitization project, which was launched by the government in a bid to meet these market demands. I elaborate below on the current situation and contents of three of such infrastructure projects: Knowledge and Information Resource Management Project, Cultural Heritage Documentation Project and Digitization of Cultural Archetype. These projects have one thing in common: they have transformed the cultural heritage information system that used to be focused on analog text data, professional use and conservation into one that puts more emphasis on digital multimedia information, customer needs and practicality. They also boast a tremendous amount of data since they possess massive archives which were accumulated using a huge amount of time, budget and labor. So far, cultural projects have been mainly about creating an archiving system allowing to accumulate, classify and consult information on cultural heritage. Now is the time to make the best use of this information to develop experienced-based content with high added value and to commercialize it. I expect that this development process will contribute to an in-depth study on cultural heritage and a better understanding of it.