The Significance of AccessON in the International Dissemination of Subak Research
This paper examines the significance of Korea’s national open-access platform AccessON in the digital preservation and international dissemination of Korean traditional embodied heritage, particularly Subak. Operated by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), AccessON functions as a national scholarly infrastructure supporting open science, repository archiving, and research dissemination.
The study argues that the digital registration of research materials related to traditional physical culture through open-access infrastructures represents a new model of heritage preservation beyond conventional museum or institutional systems. Through comparative analysis with global archival platforms such as Harvard Dataverse, Zenodo, Wikimedia Commons, and OER Commons, this paper explores how decentralized digital ecosystems contribute to the visibility and sustainability of endangered martial heritage.
Particular attention is given to the role of multilingual dissemination, DOI-based archiving, and community-driven documentation in preserving embodied cultural knowledge. The paper also discusses how digital repositories and open educational resources (OER) enable independent cultural organizations to participate in international heritage discourse without direct state sponsorship.
The study concludes that platforms such as AccessON are not merely academic databases, but emerging infrastructures for the long-term preservation, circulation, and legitimization of intangible physical culture in the digital era.
Keywords
Subak, AccessON, Open Access, Digital Heritage, Embodied Heritage, OER, Digital Archive, Korean Martial Culture, Intangible Heritage, Open Science
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