A Memorial Design Pattern Catalogue for Commemorative Digital Culture

Abstract

Approaches to remembrance and commemorative culture require most sensitive approaches. This is especially true when developments relate to the digital domain, where the effects and the forms of usage of corresponding offers and artefacts are much harder to control. “Best practices” collections, which might provide guidance to the development of novel products and services linked commemorative culture, are so far missing. In this paper, we present the concept of a catalogue and knowledge base for smart contextualized practices for multimedia applications and products in the field of memorial and culture based on design patterns.We present a comprehensive discussion on corresponding theoretical background, especially with respect to commemorative culture as well as best practice research and design patterns. Further, we present our approach for the identification of patterns and a set of selected examples of design patterns in digital-media based commemorative culture. Finally, the paper provides a discussion on further uses of catalogue and design pattern repository for research.