Application of Hokkaido Sculpture Web in an Emergency

Abstract

Art-Tourism is a new tourism related to art contents these are field sculpture, music, photograph, and so on. Especially, we think a field sculpture is one of the most important cultural properties, and we might be feeling a sense of closeness to it in our life. In this paper, we explain a Hokkaido Sculpture Web that is a community web site to support art-tourism based on more two thousands photographs taken by volunteer photographers, and it is developed by open source program to be used by other people in other area in future. In addition, we propose an application of Hokkaido Sculpture Web in emergency.