BALI DIGITAL
HERITAGE INITIATIVE

Empower Balinese communities in the preservation of Balinese culture through responsible, sustainable, innovative, and collaborative, digitisation efforts.

About

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.

Projects

BADHI's projects focus on bringing positive impacts to Balinese. Our projects encompass both tangible and intangible aspects of Balinese culture. Our current focus is on the preservation of temples and lontar manuscripts.

Bali Temples Map

An interactive map depicting the locations of documented temples across Bali. Go to the map.

Temples Digital Archiving

Community participation and advanced 3D reconstruction to archive Balinese temples.

This project is funded by the Whyte Fund Monash University.

Lontar

Advanced machine learning to safeguard and interpret the knowledge contained in traditional Balinese palm leaf manuscripts.

Team

If you are interested in supporting or joining our effort, please reach out to us.

Kadek Ananta Satriadi, PhD
badhi.program[at]gmail.com

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

Several related links:

AKSALont
Automatic Transliteration Application for Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts.
Virtual Angkor
Digitalisation of Angkor Wat temple. A past project of Dr. Chandler.
VVIP Research Group
Research group at Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha led by Dr. Kesiman.
Embodied Visualisation Group
Research group at Monash University.

Collaborating academics:

Kadek A. Satriadi

Monash University

Bernhard Jenny

Monash University

Thomas Chandler

Monash University

Made Windu Antara Kesiman

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

Putu Hendra Saputra

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

I Gede Mahendra Darmawiguna

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

Viviane Frings-Hessami

Monash University

Joshua Seguin

Monash University

Research students:

Yaoying Huang

Monash University

Anthony Wilson

Monash University


Supported by:
Prof. Tim Dwyer, Prof. Patrick Olivier, A/Prof. Gilian Oliver, Prof. Juliana Sutanto, Komunitas Wikimedia Denpasar