Looking into storing Regional Cultural Resources as Digital Archives and their potential use in the field of Information Technology

Digital Hi-vision Film Archives of traditional trading houses and Vories architecture in Omi Hachiman

Abstract

Local regions are faced with the problem of how to inherit and preserve the tangible and intangible culture of that area whilst moving on to new creations. By using the medium of digital archives, we believe we have been able to find one possible answer to this problem. The case of OmiHachiman, Shiga Prefecture is one illustration of this. This paper shows the meaning and purpose behind the production of digital high vision archives of constructions designed be Vories, and their counterpart, the traditional trading houses, in OmiHachiman.