T/HCPA 011-2025 Chinese guidelines for the uniform coding of representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage

Scope

This standard specifies the coding structure, code definitions, and generation and maintenance rules for the works of representative intangible cultural heritage inheritors, and is applicable to: - The unified coding of all representative intangible cultural heritage works in China, including physical works (such as handicrafts) and non-physical works (such as performance records), associated with ten categories of intangible cultural heritage projects, and four protection levels from national to county. These works must reflect the core skills and cultural values of intangible cultural heritage, and do not include products produced in large-scale industrialized mass production, such as drugs mass-produced on factory assembly lines based on traditional medicine formulas, goods mass-replicated based on traditional crafts (such as ceramics or textiles), audio-visual products mass-replicated based on performing arts (such as traditional opera or dance) (such as CD/DVD mass distribution or digital copy files), replicas of traditional art (such as painting or sculpture) mass-produced by industrialized printing or 3D printing, and other derivative products mass-produced by mechanized or automated means.

Development Information

Related Standards