Udatari as a Pioneer for Balinese Art Performance Marketplace

2019 Innovation Grant with I Gusti Agung Gede Arya Kadyanan

Introduction

Bali is one of the famous tourist destinations, because of the uniqueness of its people related to arts, culture and tourism. The numerous tourists visiting Bali gave a positive impact on the tourism sector. The sectors that felt the most positive impacts were the accommodation and transportation sectors, but not for arts industry sector, even though Bali is famous for its unique arts and culture. From the results of a survey that has been carried out, the emergence of these problems is due to a number of things namely difficult access and there is no system that is able to provide information about Balinese culture and the availability of its performances. A number of systems have also been developed before, but the weakness of some of these systems is that Balinese cultural information is still lacking, separate and does not yet have a system to handle payments in it. Without any concrete action to overcome this problem, it is feared that in the future the tourism sector that carries the theme of art and culture will be getting worse. On this occasion, the team in collaboration with experts from the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University has been developed an integrated system to facilitate performance organizers and tourists, access to culture and performances of Balinese culture easier, all cultural artifacts related to the performing arts will be well documented. The system is made in the form of a panel control system consist of several features including an encyclopedia of performance art, a booking system and tickets payment, a site map to guide tourists to the performance location. With the application of the Integrated Performing Arts Management Information System Based on Crowd Sourcing, it is expected that the system can become a forum for organizers of Balinese cultural arts performances while providing convenience for tourists visiting Bali, providing facilities for SMEs performing arts organizers to be able to manage their performances independently. The goal of the system is to provide a complete, practical and easy access to Balinese culture and tourism in Bali.

Figure 1. Software Development Methodology

Method and Procedure

Figure 1 shows the software development life cycle which we implement in developing Udatari. In the first phase, i.e. the requirement analysis, we define the format of the software, identify the requirements and develop the system. Next, in the prototype development phase we build a prototype by making temporary designs which focus on serving the user (for example creating input and output formats). We then evaluate the prototype where the user test the system and provide feedbacks whether the prototype has fulfilled all of the requirements. If it is not appropriate, the prototype will be revised by repeating the previous steps. But if it is sufficient, then the next phase is the development of the application based on the prototype. After building the application, it must be tested before being released for public usage. The goal is to minimize software errors. The testing phase is carried out using Black Box and White Box methods, as well as architecture testing and base path. As the final step, the user evaluates the system which has been developed. If the application is not sufficient then we can repeat the process starting from gathering more requirements until the testing phase. Otherwise, the application which has been tested and accepted by the user is ready to be released.

Result

We implement the design of the system in the form of a mobile-based application. We develop the application by leveraging the Swift and Java programming languages. Figure 2 shows the homepage of Udatari where users can access features, such as Event, Dances, Dance Studio, Tutorial, Rental and Transaction. 

Figure 2. Udatari Homepage

Author:
Ngurah Agus Sanjaya ER and I Gusti Agung Gede Arya Kadyanan
agus_sanjaya@unud.ac.id
Informatics Department (if.unud.ac.id)
Faculty of Math and Natural Sciences (fmipa.unud.ac.id)
Udayana University (www.unud.ac.id)