The Creation of Digital Image of Cultural Heritage: World and Domestic Experience (The Information Base of the Cultural Heritage Case of Sites of Kyiv)

• Main Author: Horkova, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Інститут історії України НАН України 2019
• Series: Український історичний журнал
• Subjects: Методологія. Історіографія. Джерелознавство
• Online Access: http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/179594

The article outlines the urgent problems of the protection and preservation of cultural heritage objects, it is emphasized that one of the priority areas of modern monument protection work is the transmission to future generations the historical knowledge embodied in these objects, historical information about them. The purpose of the research is to highlight domestic experience of implementation and development of the electronic accounting of monuments of cultural heritage by the case of “The Information Base of the Cultural Heritage of Kyiv City”. The research methodology. A set of general scientific and special methods was applied. The principles of historicism, scientific objectivity and system are taken as a basis, the systematization of factual material, the processing and compilation of accumulated information, the conceptual generalization of the original factual material are carried out. The scientific novelty. Foreign experience of creation and functioning of electronic databases of objects of cultural heritage is described: the French state database of the French Ministry of Culture and the Heritage Department “Merimee”, the state English electronic base “Monarch”, the Flanders state federal electronic database (part of Belgium) “Melanie”, and the Russian federal database “Monuments of Russia”. Conclusions. In the article the author made an attempt to characterize briefly the problems of implementation the electronic databases of cultural heritage in Ukraine. The role of the information product – the program module “The Information Base of the Cultural Heritage of Kyiv City” is revealed, which is actively implemented in practical activities in the field of cultural heritage protection and greatly contributes to optimization of work in this area, by the example of the work of the State Historical and Architectural Reserve “Ancient Kyiv”. The conclusions expressed that the information field of cultural heritage is not standardized today, not a single cultural heritage protection agency has comprehensive information on the state of affairs in this area. But the general global trend is not only the formation of national electronic registers, but also consolidated international data banks on objects of cultural heritage.