Director of the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre Hoang Viet Trung speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) Hue, the imperial capital of Vietnam for hundreds of years, is home tofive heritage items recognised by UNESCO, including the ancient citadel relic complex(a World Cultural Heritage site), Hue royal court music (an intangible culturalheritage item), Nguyen Dynasty’s wood blocks (a documentary heritage item),Nguyen Dynasty’s royal administrative documents (part of the Asia-PacificRegister of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme), and literature on Hueroyal architecture (another documentary heritage).
Along with these five heritage items, the Hue Monuments ConservationCentre is also managing 38 relic sites.
At the event, both domestic and foreign experts shared newtechnologies to digitise tangible and intangible heritage to create digitaldatabase, as well as ways to promote and introduce cultural products to usersin digital space.
Director of the centre Hoang Viet Trung said that theapplication of digital technology in managing, spreading and increasingheritage values is an inevitable trend of the day.
The centre is implementing 3D digitisation for about 11,000antiques of all kinds to create a database to serve the process of exploitingthis rich resource in digital space, he added./.
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