Would people actually use a digital platform for India's intangible cultural heritage?
I’m a CSE student exploring a project around preserving intangible cultural heritage digitally.
By intangible heritage, I mean things like folk songs, oral stories, traditional crafts, languages/dialects, traditional recipes, rituals, dances, and local knowledge.
The idea is to create a platform where communities/practitioners could document these traditions through audio, video, photos and written records, while other people could discover and learn from them.
But I’m not sure whether this actually solves a real problem.
A lot of this information is already scattered across YouTube, Google, social media, museums, government websites and digital archives.
So I’d genuinely like to hear from people interested in culture:
If most of this information already exists somewhere online, what is still missing?
Would you actually use a dedicated platform for this? And what would make it useful enough that you would choose it over simply searching Google or YouTube?
I’m also interested in hearing from people who have seen traditional practices disappear or become less common in their own communities.
Please be critical — I’m trying to validate the problem before building anything.