First Report on User Requirements Identification and Analysis

The i-Treasures project deals with ICH (Intangible Cultural Heritage) preservation and transmission; its primary aim is to develop an open and extendable platform to provide access to ICH resources, enable knowledge exchange between researchers and contribute to the transmission of the rare know-how from Living Human Treasures to apprentices. The main purpose of this document is to define the system and user requirements of the i-Treasures platform. The requirements definition process was based on a participatory approach, where experts, performers and users have been actively involved through surveys and interviews, in the complex tasks of identifying specificities of rare traditional know-how, discovering existing teaching and learning practices and finally identifying the most cutting edge technologies able to support innovative learning approaches to ICH. Thus the document contains a state of the art review in the field, as well as the analysis of the artistic expressions (i.e. intangible heritages) identified by the project as use cases, namely: 1) rare traditional songs, 2) rare dance interactions, 3) traditional craftsmanship and 4) contemporary music composition.