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eDIRICA: Digitizing Cultural Heritage for Learning, Creativity, and Inclusiveness

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2018)

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The integration of information and communication tools to the management of cultural heritage (CH) promotes culture-based creativity, historical learning and awareness, cultural diversity and social cohesion. However, various developing countries are facing challenges due to inadequate infrastructure to support the integration. In Nigeria, for instance, heritage sites are mainly protected for tourism purposes with little focus on the educational purposes and the broader impacts of CH within the community. This paper, therefore, describes the planning stage for the development of eDIRICA, a Web-app tool that incorporates learning, peoples’ engagement and creativity to create a new paradigm for the management of cultural heritage in Nigeria. The rationale is to document heritage sites and convert the information into knowledge through the creation of interactive learning modules, collaborative activities and events. Primary information were collected through questionnaire survey of randomly selected school students and teachers. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted for heritage managers of three CHs. The study finds that heritage education is not included in school curriculum, inadequate trained teachers and collaboration between heritage managers and school administrators. Also, young people are interested in engaging and learning about cultural heritage through digital platforms in view to contribute to the development of their communities.

This work was supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.

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  1. School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

    Olufemi Samson Adetunji

  2. Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Akure, Nigeria

    Olufemi Samson Adetunji

  3. NERD Multi Partnerships, Lagos, Nigeria

    Olufemi Samson Adetunji & Clement Essien

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

    Clement Essien

  5. Department of Architectural Technology, Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa, Nigeria

    Oluwatosin Samuel Owolabi

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  2. American Art Collaborative Linked Open Data Initiative, Arlington, VA, USA

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  3. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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  4. The Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Adetunji, O.S., Essien, C., Owolabi, O.S. (2018). eDIRICA: Digitizing Cultural Heritage for Learning, Creativity, and Inclusiveness. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11196. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01762-0_39

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