DIGITAL HERITAGE , 2021
Digital Heritage Memorial Hall (Introduction)
The Digital Heritage Memorial Hall is designed to preserve digital heritage and facilitate digital memorial practices. Through AR technology, individuals can access the legal information of the deceased on social media and systematically preserve digital heritage intended for future generations. As the quantity of digital heritage grows rapidly, vast amounts of digital assets are accumulating on the internet, necessitating innovative approaches to management and commemoration.
In response, the Digital Heritage Memorial Hall offers a new form of memorialization for relatives, effectively addressing the issue of numerous inactive accounts on the internet. Similar to traditional photo albums, notebooks, or biographies left by the deceased, the memorial hall employs post-processing to automatically generate relevant images and content, providing a more realistic representation of the deceased’s life and enhancing the immersive and emotional experience of the memorial process.
The business or transaction becomes easier and more popular due to the AI development, the scientific and technical transition,the wide AR and VR application, and the digital currency or digital assets, but these factors also increase the complexity of the heritage planning process.
A new study shows that within half a century, Facebook may be occupied by the dead - at that time, there will be more dead users than live active users in the world's largest social network. By virtue of the digital heritage, the Internet is more and more important in human life, which can quickly become personal digital archives. Its forms include the personal online albums, documents, letters and videos. Researchers claim that so far, there are few macro and quantitative studies focusing on the death on the network, which needs our special attention.
The dealing of the digital heritage is a complex problem, involving many factors, such as privacy right, inheritance system, protection of personality right, and folk culture, etc. In order to solve the problem of digital heritage inheritance under the background of the Internet, technical methods are the temporary approaches, but improving human's understanding of data and self can completely solve it.
Our current era is the era of big data, there are a lot of big data on the Internet, with the support of big data, it involves many aspects of people's lives. Because everyone's data on the Internet is too large, people will be resettled in terms of data when they die. People will enact some legislation for this.
Key questions arise regarding the willingness of the deceased to be observed by future generations, the balance between preserving privacy and ensuring the continuity of personal value, and the potential psychological impact on relatives. Does the heightened realism exacerbate grief or create dependency among family members? How should access be regulated—who is permitted to view, and who is not? Furthermore, how can the will and intentions of the deceased be effectively expressed and respected?
The memorial hall was designed to provide tailored services for the deceased. Individuals nearing the end of life could prearrange and plan the management of their digital assets, while family members of the deceased could collaborate to customize posthumous arrangements. This approach ensures that the digital heritage left online is preserved and effectively passed on, preventing data loss. Over time, families may even develop their own family-specific digital heritage memorial and management systems.