Cultural Heritage Preservation, Management, and Utilization to Transition to Digital

Cultural Heritage Administration Announces 'Digital Transformation of Cultural Heritage 2030'
Seventeen Policy Tasks to be Implemented by 2030
"Full-Scale Public Service Starting in 2031"

The methods of cultural heritage preservation, management, and utilization will be transformed digitally.

The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on the 16th the 'Cultural Heritage Digital Transformation 2030,' which addresses the digital transition across social and economic sectors. They plan to broadly incorporate scientific data and intelligent information technologies into important decision-making and public services. With the goal of "creating future value through digital cultural heritage," four strategies have been established to promote seventeen policy tasks and fifty-nine detailed tasks by 2030.

The four strategies are ▲digital transformation of work methods ▲digital transformation of public services ▲transformation of data accumulation and management methods ▲strengthening the digital transformation ecosystem. The core of the digital transformation of work methods is the establishment of a big data platform that collects, accumulates, integrates, and manages cultural heritage data. Various materials will be utilized as resources and opened for use as primary data for the cultural industry. Additionally, integrated platforms for intangible cultural heritage transmission support, integrated management systems for cultural heritage repair records, and disaster prevention drone stations for cultural heritage safety will be established to enhance efficiency.

The goal of the digital transformation of public services is to improve cultural heritage information services using data and intelligent information technologies. A cultural heritage guide bot will be developed that automatically recognizes visitors' perspectives and situations through artificial intelligence to provide customized guidance, which will be integrated into robot interpreters, AI speakers, and digital information boards.

The transformation of data accumulation and management methods will be supported by cataloging national relics, digitizing maritime and underwater cultural heritage, building digital archives of overseas cultural heritage, and establishing data and information systems for World Heritage sites. The 'Metaverse Time Machine' service, which digitally restores cultural heritage, figures, and events in historic cities such as Hanyangdoseong and Gyeongju for virtual space experiences, will also be prepared by next year.

The plan to strengthen the digital transformation ecosystem environment consists of three main points: ▲sharing the experience of cultural heritage digital transformation globally ▲training and deploying data and digital technology experts at cultural heritage sites ▲providing digital cultural heritage enjoyment services for digitally vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children, people with disabilities, and migrant foreigners.

The Cultural Heritage Administration stated, "From next year until 2025, we will accumulate, process, and integrate data by sector to build a cultural heritage big data platform, and from 2026 to 2030, we will apply AI tasks and services to actual work and strengthen big data analysis capabilities." They added, "From 2031, we plan to fully launch public services."