Recently, the opening ceremony of Hunan Music Relics and Story Exhibition was hold at the art hall of the Hunan Museum,welcoming the public visit. Attendants include leaders and experts from the Cultural Heritage of Hunan, Hunan Musicians Association,Hunan Museum, Tianjin University (TJU) and Beijing Baidu NetSwift Co, Ltd.
Professor Zhang Jiawan from TJU’s College of Intelligence and Computing, worked as a chief scientist for program of the Key Technology Research and Development on Knowledge Organization and Service for Cultural Relics Based on Mapping Knowledge Domain, has carried out AI technology R&D and application innovations targeting cultural heritage preservation. The program involves the collaboration of tenprestigious R&D institutions and cultural museums. As No.5 project of 13th Five-Year National Key R&D Plan, the aforementioned program, after 2-year shared efforts of Hunan Museum, TJU and Beijing Baidu NetSwift Co, Ltd., has achieved satisfying fruits in R&D and innovative applications on digital exhibition of musicheritage. Therefore, the exhibition serves not only as a platform to present the achievements acquired in the national key R&D plan program, but a successful innovative practice for Hunan Museum in knowledge organization and service, which integrates relics with technology and coordinates diversified players.
The project Encountering Bosom Friends in the Heart-touching Music World, co-produced by TJU and Hunan Museum, is comprised of multiple digital display. It includes visible musical knowledge mapping, bronze historical musical instruments, modern anecdotes about Qin (Seven-stringChinese Zither), virtual Chinese Zither-playing as well as Wechat mini program for the guide tour of Hunan cultural relics. By combining technological results with abundant musical collections at Hunan Museum, this exhibition has built a comprehensive musical knowledge mapping and a technological platform, with Hunan music-related relics, sound, characters, literature, history and images in a multi-source and diverse-style database. It’s no exaggeration to describe the exhibition as an active book as well as an audio-visual feast of music civilization, which connects precious physical relics with immersive digital techs.
Supported by various technologies in the Internet Plus era, the exhibition has given full play to practical technological achievements, like multi-modal relic knowledge mapping and multi-sensing channel for mixed reality. The increased extent and depth of display content can help meet public’s more diversified personal needs for knowledge, offering them a quality visiting experience. In this way, monotonous exhibiting form and shortage of quality content seen in traditional museums will no longer be here. Driven by digital cultural and creative industry, such on-and-offline exhibitions are energizing museum display and extend its lifecycle by enriching cultural industrial chains and exploring the museum new cultural patterns.
By: Chen Xu
Editor: Qin Mian
