PORTALl INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR NATIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTY

Hong, Nam
SunInformation Management Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Korea

Korea enacted an Information and Knowledge Management Act in January, 2000. We started the projects through which we can integrate the national knowledge information by designating 5 main fields as the strategic ones such as culture & arts, science, education, Korean study, and cultural properties.

The “Portal Information System for National Cultural Property” , which will be abbreviated into “PISNCP”, is one of the those projects. It provides people with cultural information by digitizing the cultural properties information such as national properties, treasures, and designated cultural assets.

Through this project, we established cultural properties database of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Cultural Properties Administration, and 84 national museums. The database consists of 330,000 texts, 400,000 2D images, 2,800 3D objects, 51 videos, and 42 cyber museums. Especially, each cyber museum of the whole country reflected the natural museum’s appearance and exhibition with maximum efficiency through selecting famous relics in displayed relics. We made the cyber museums of National Museum of Korea, National Folk Museum, 11 national local museums, and other 27 public, private, university museums. In those cyber museums, 2,185 relics are displayed in 3D images. Besides, we made a guide map on which the cyber museums are located, so that people can easily find the cyber museum they want to visit. And also we made one portal cyber museum and one primitive life relic space so that you can make an easy search by the times and by the themes. The internet homepage connection rate of “Portal Information System for National Cultural Property” is increasing at high rate, so the “PISNCP” will furnish people with much useful on site experience and knowledge information. On top of that, with the help of distribution of the Standard Relic Management System, by which the related man in the museums can register the data automatically, we can cut down the information budget and can make systematic management for the cultural properties.