TY - JOUR KW - community KW - Copyrights KW - Cultural informations KW - digital KW - Digital libraries KW - Information resource KW - Intangible cultural heritage KW - Intangible cultural heritages KW - Libraries KW - Metadata KW - public library KW - Resources sharing KW - community KW - database KW - digital KW - public library AU - C. Runhao AB - Interest in intangible cultural heritage (ICH) from UNESCO and other groups has grown in recent years, precipitating the need for greater attention to digital ICH and ICH databases in this area. This research aims to measures the ICH databases, and to explore the role of public libraries in the protection of ICH. [Methodology] According to accessing the websites of 31 provincial public libraries in China, the study collects and analyses the names, copyright, metadata of the ICH databases. [Finding] The research finds that more than 60\% provincial public libraries have ICH database, and there are three kinds of ICH database s name, the copyright of databases belongs to provincial public libraries, the National Cultural Information Resources Sharing Project, and Superstar Co., Ltd. The metadata used by each database is not uniform. [Conclusion] Those databases are still in the record stage, mainly for publicity and display ICH projects, can t reaching the goal of digital inheritance. The lack of national uniform standards also leads to disunity of naming and metadata on databases. Libraries just play the role of information porters without more innovations. DO - 10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501161 M1 - 1 N1 - Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc N2 - Interest in intangible cultural heritage (ICH) from UNESCO and other groups has grown in recent years, precipitating the need for greater attention to digital ICH and ICH databases in this area. This research aims to measures the ICH databases, and to explore the role of public libraries in the protection of ICH. [Methodology] According to accessing the websites of 31 provincial public libraries in China, the study collects and analyses the names, copyright, metadata of the ICH databases. [Finding] The research finds that more than 60\% provincial public libraries have ICH database, and there are three kinds of ICH database s name, the copyright of databases belongs to provincial public libraries, the National Cultural Information Resources Sharing Project, and Superstar Co., Ltd. The metadata used by each database is not uniform. [Conclusion] Those databases are still in the record stage, mainly for publicity and display ICH projects, can t reaching the goal of digital inheritance. The lack of national uniform standards also leads to disunity of naming and metadata on databases. Libraries just play the role of information porters without more innovations. SP - 888 EP - 889 TI - Information porter: A study on intangible cultural heritage databases of provincial public libraries in china UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064516991&doi=10.1002%2fpra2.2018.14505501161&partnerID=40&md5=a777476060f4871840b053eb34324ef3 VL - 55 SN - 23739231 (ISSN) ER -