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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Temples Archival Project

We aim to create the first 3D archives of around 5,000 Balinese temples by employing advanced 3D reconstruction techniques combined with participatory archival approach. See the interactive example on https://sanggah.badhi.id

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 - Indonesia

I Putu Bayu Ananta Surya

Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

Research Assistant - Indonesia

Lanang Surya Darma

Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

Research Assistant - Indonesia

I Kadek Dwi Angga Sathya Nanda

Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

Research Assistant - Indonesia

I Gede Danan Aria Satwika Punia

Virtual Vision, Image, and Pattern

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

Research Assistant- Indonesia

Anthony Wilson

Embodied Visualisation

Monash University

Research Assistant- Australia

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

If you are interested in PhD around this topic, let use know by sending an expression of interest here.

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Several related links:

VVIP Research Group

Embodied Visualisation Group

AKSALont
Automatic Transliteration Application for Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts.

Virtual Angkor
Digitalisation of Angkor Wat temple. A past project of Dr. Chandler.