In recent years, awareness of the importance of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH) to protect humanity's cultural diversity has increased. However, much remains to be done to document and archive this heritage for future generations. This proposal outlines an implemented solution for the digital preservation of intangible cultural heritage. For the living culture of the Schnitzelbänke, a part of the UNESCO world cultural heritage, the Basler Fasnacht [1], we implemented an archive that functions simultaneously as an archive, digital news portal and basis for the documentation of future events. This living web archive combines digitization, registration, meta dating, contextualizing, and storytelling. It acts as a digital archive by providing documents of past times, as a broadcast by almost direct transmission during the event taking place and as a news platform by announcing venues, members and performers, because the same technological solution offers a flexible stage for all of these digital practices.
Vera Chiquet, "How to Digitally Preserve UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage? A Web-archive for Ephemeral Events at the Basler Carnival" in Archiving Conference, 2023, pp 105 - 108, https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2023.20.1.22