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Bali Digital Heritage Initiative
Empower Balinese communities in the preservation of Balinese culture through responsible, sustainable, innovative, and collaborative digitisation efforts.
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About
Established in 2024, BADHI is a joint effort among Australian and Indonesian academics who believe that current and future digital technology offers opportunities to improve the preservation and utilisation of Bali's cultural heritage for social good.
Heritages
BADHI's projects aim to create lasting value for the Balinese people through cultural preservation. Our work spans both tangible and intangible heritage, with current projects focused on temple digital archival and lontar manuscript conservation.
Temples
For centuries, Bali"s ancient temples have faced destruction and rebuilding processes. We are creating sustainable solutions to preserve Balinese temples for generations to come.
Projects:
Participatory Digital Archiving.Lontar
Ancient Balinese palm leaf manuscripts hold centuries of sacred texts, history, and cultural knowledge. Their preservation is vital to protect this irreplaceable heritage for future generations. We explore responsible machine learning techniques to safeguard and interpret the knowledge contained in traditional Balinese palm leaf manuscripts.
Team
BADHI is mainly led by the collaboration between the Embodied Visualisation Research Group (EmVis) at Monash University and the Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern Research Group (VVIP) at the Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha. In the Participatory Digital Archiving of Balinese Temple project, we collaborate with recordkeeping experts at the Digital Transformation Research Group (Monash University) and action research experts at the Action Lab (Monash University).
Collaborating academics:
Kadek Ananta Satriadi
Embodied Visualisation
Monash University
Australia Lead
Made Windu Antara Kesiman
Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Indonesia Lead
Bernhard Jenny
Embodied Visualisation
Monash University
Australia Co-Lead
Putu Hendra Saputra
Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Indonesia Co-Lead
Thomas Chandler
Embodied Visualisation
Monash University
Australia Co-Lead
I Gede Mahendra Darmawiguna
Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Indonesia Co-Lead
Viviane Frings-Hessami
Digital Transformation
Monash University
Australia Co-Lead
Joshua Seguin
Action Lab
Monash University
Australia Co-Lead
Research assistants:
Kadek Teguh Dermawan
Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Research Assistant Lead
I Putu Bayu Ananta Surya
Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Research Assistant
Lanang Surya Darma
Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Research Assistant
I Kadek Dwi Angga Sathya Nanda
Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Research Assistant
I Gede Danan Aria Satwika Punia
Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Research Assistant
Research students:
Yaoying Huang
Embodied Visualisation
Monash University
Yaoying investigates machine learning models for effective transliteration of Balinese script written on lontar.
Anthony Wilson
Embodied Visualisation
Monash University
Anthony investigated the 3D Gaussian Splatting pipeline for temple digitisation processes (Completed 2024).
Our efforts are also supported by:
Prof. Tim Dwyer, Prof. Patrick Olivier, A/Prof. Gilian Oliver, Prof. Juliana Sutanto, Komunitas Wikimedia Denpasar
Special thanks to Ketut Wiryadana for creating our logo.
Contact Us
If you are interested in supporting or joining our effort, please reach out to us at badhi.program[at]gmail.com
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Several related links:
AKSALont
Automatic Transliteration Application for Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts.
Automatic Transliteration Application for Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts.
Virtual Angkor
Digitalisation of Angkor Wat temple. A past project of Dr. Chandler.
Digitalisation of Angkor Wat temple. A past project of Dr. Chandler.