Preserving living heritage. Digital transformation of cultural elements within museums

Living heritage is defined by UNESCO as “performing arts, oral expressions, social practices, rituals, festive events and traditional knowledge”, a crucial aspect of human existence “handed down from parents to children, from masters to apprentices, from teachers to pupils”; its survival it is preserved through transmission. The research addresses the digital transformation of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), developing the Digital Library of Living Traditions (henceforth DL), a web-based tool for collecting, preserving, and sharing cultural practices. The case study delivers applications to understand the objects exhibited at the Folklore and Popular Traditions Museums of Amman, beyond the appearance. The research envisions the role of storytelling and audiovisual archives in the realm of design for ICH, ideating, producing, and representing digital memories with and on digital media, including different genres and formats. Then, describes the DL, which is a multimedia tool that will make accessible a digital repository in which get visual information about places, techniques, and materials for the traditional Jordanian handicrafts; contents will be partially accessible within the museums.