The Wisdom Digital Archive : Local Healing Process by Lan Na Traditional Healer

Abstract

               This research is a development research project by the survey, study and collects knowledge and wisdom of local healing process by Lan Na traditional healer, then developed by digital technology to the wisdom digital archive. The key informants were Lan Na traditional healers and the target group is persons who visit the wisdom digital archive. Data were collected by questionnaire, interviews, photographic - video equipment and the wisdom digital archive. Knowledge of wisdom were analyzed by content analysis and data of the wisdom digital archive using were analyzed by means and standard deviation, the research found that:

               The survey, study and collect knowledge and wisdom of local healing process by Lan Na traditional healer, including ritual healing were 4 therapies and 4 videos, physical healing were 3 therapies and 3 video, herbs food healing were 3 therapies and 2 video. The wisdom digital archive of the local healing process by traditional Lan Na healer consist of 4 archives by province dividing and present on the responsive website, the searching systems were category searching and province searching. In addition, the promotion and access to the wisdom digital archive were e-book and application development.    

               Assessment of the wisdom digital archive of the local healing process by the traditional Lan Na healer show that: overall of design and formatting were appropriate at the high level with an average of 4.35, items in the top three were the beauty and interest of the wisdom digital archive, the use of multimedia content appropriate for content and the proportion of content and illustrations were appropriate, respectively. Overall of the content is appropriate at the high level with an average of 4.33. The top three items were content categorization easy for searching and learning, easy to link data within the data archive, the content classification was a process and continuous, respectively.