On Constructing Hokkaido Sculpture Web

Abstract

Art-Tourism is a new tourism related to art contents these are field sculpture, music, photograph, and so on. We join in an art-tourism project in Society for Tourism Informatics, Japan. Especially, we think the field sculpture is one of the most important cultural properties, and we might be feeling a sense of closeness to it in our life. We are recognizing the importance of passing various cultures into the next generation using archived as published information. Recently, many people are focusing on Digital Archive, which can keep photograph-data high quality, and securely publish the information of precious cultural assets upon internet using database. Though digital archive is very effective technology, it is difficult that we keep data of field sculptures, because they are exhibited out in the fields and information concerning them distributed in each place. In this research, in the first place, we are constructing a web-database for field sculptures in Hokkaido in Japan based on some photographs provided from Mr. Saburo Nakano, who has 2100 photographs concerning field sculpture in Hokkaido. The photograph is covering 95% of whole field sculptures in Hokkaido.