Communicative Klironomy

Communication Klironomy is an independent scientific direction in the system of the klironomical sciences. It occupies a transboundary position between Intangible Klironomy and Tangible Klironomy, since it studies both intangible information content and tangible technical carriers, devices, media, and artefacts connected with the development of information technologies. Within the system of the klironomical sciences, Communication Klironomy is responsible for preserving cultural heritage related to digital communication, programming, virtual design, information media, technological artefacts, and the historical development of information environments.

1. Programming is the field concerned with the creation of computer programmes, algorithms, software systems, instructions, and data structures that enable computer hardware and digital systems to perform calculations, control functions, process information, and support communication.
2. Psychology is the science that studies the emergence, development, and functioning of the psyche, mental activity, perception, behaviour, cognition, and communication processes of individuals and groups.
3. Philology is a complex of sciences that studies language, oral and written texts, literary works, and cultural meanings expressed through linguistic and narrative forms.
4. Design is the activity and discipline concerned with the creation of aesthetic, functional, communicative, and visual properties of physical, industrial, digital, and virtual products.

Computer technologies, digital communication, and virtual information environments have been developing for more than six decades. During this period, a large number of tangible artefacts of technological development and intangible forms of information heritage have already emerged. These include early computers, storage media, software systems, programming languages, interface designs, visual communication systems, digital documents, websites, databases, multimedia content, and other objects connected with the history of information technologies.

The significance of this heritage is not limited to technical history. Digital and information artefacts reflect the stages of development of society’s information field, communication practices, visual culture, design languages, technological thinking, and forms of interaction between people, institutions, and machines. Programming languages may be considered cultural-linguistic systems comparable to historical languages, since they record specific ways of structuring logic, commands, procedures, and communication with technical systems.

Visual interfaces, digital design, electronic documents, virtual environments, and information media also carry cultural codes of specific historical periods. They preserve ideas about usability, aesthetics, access to information, social communication, institutional memory, scientific development, and the transformation of human interaction in the digital age.

Consequently, the preservation of objects and elements of this cross-border tangible-intangible cultural heritage is an important part of reconstructing a unified picture of the existence of society at specific historical moments and in the process of temporal change. The conservation, recovery, reconstruction, renovation, and interpretation of information technologies and digital content require specific scientific methods, technical expertise, archival procedures, and specially trained specialists.

Information technologies, technical devices, media carriers, programming languages, digital content, visual communication systems, interface designs, and other tangible and intangible elements that carry valuable cultural, technological, communicative, linguistic, visual, and historical codes of society.

The preservation, recovery, reconstruction, documentation, interpretation, and transmission of information technologies, digital content, communication systems, and their tangible and intangible carriers as elements of cultural heritage.

The preservation of information technologies, digital content, communication systems, and their carriers as elements of cultural heritage and as witnesses of the technological, communicative, visual, and intellectual development of society.

1. To analyse the state of individual information technologies in order to determine their relevance for inclusion in inventories of tangible cultural heritage and to classify them.
2. To analyse the state of individual information elements, digital content, programming languages, interface systems, and visual communication forms in order to determine their relevance for inclusion in inventories of intangible cultural heritage and to classify them.
3. To describe the state of individual objects of information technology and information content defined as part of cultural heritage, including their relevance, level of preservation, degree of transformation, and required scope of recovery or reconstruction work.
4. To develop methods for the preservation, recovery, reconstruction, renovation, and interpretation of information technology objects and information content as elements of cultural heritage.
5. To create a scientific basis for research, educational, expert, archival, technical, and cultural activities related to the identification, documentation, preservation, and transmission of information technologies and information content.
6. To support the preservation of digital and communication heritage as an important component of society’s intellectual, technological, visual, and spiritual development.

1. Preservation of existing information technologies, technical devices, media carriers, programming languages, digital content, interface systems, and visual communication forms defined as elements of cultural heritage.
2. Preservation of those types of information technologies and information content that may be recognised as elements of cultural heritage in the future.
3. Documentation of information technologies, software environments, programming languages, digital platforms, interface designs, communication systems, media carriers, and digital cultural content.
4. Recovery of damaged, obsolete, corrupted, fragmented, or partially lost elements and objects of information technology and information content defined as part of cultural heritage.
5. Reconstruction of lost elements of information technologies, digital content, software systems, interface structures, and communication environments identified as part of cultural heritage.
6. Systematisation and classification of communication heritage according to its technological, historical, cultural, linguistic, visual, design, informational, and social significance.
7. Interpretation of information technologies and digital content as carriers of cultural memory, technological experience, visual language, communication practices, and social transformation.
8. Creation of scientific, methodological, archival, technical, educational, and expert foundations for the long-term preservation and transmission of communication heritage within the system of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.