In this era of information, people exchange information and interact with each other daily through the computer.  Advances in communication technology and the rise of social networks make it easy to preserve and transmit information.  To preserve cultural heritage and historical value, many countries have made great efforts to digitalize their cultural heritage and emphasize their value through further applications.  For example, the National Palace Museum has digitalized many ancient treasures from different eras for storage; Academia Sinica has established a digital corpus of their archeological data, and the Art Museum of Harvard University has digitalized their collections and publications.  All of the above projects offer digitalized corpuses of many paintings, writings, as well as video and audio data, thereby preserving valuable relics of culture and art through digitalization technology.  Such digitalized corpuses are important references for research and for the sustainable preservation of important historical resources.
　　The “National Technological Project of Digitalized Reservation and Digitalized Learning,” sponsored by the government, advanced to stage two at the beginning of 2008, and so far it has supported and assisted the establishment of digitalized collections of many cultural relics in different fields such as the humanities, social sciences, academia, education, economics, and more importantly, the performance arts.  The nature of traditional drama is short lived as it is performance art presented on stage and disappears with the drop of the curtain.  Thus, preservation of traditional drama in the past usually consisted of collections of costumes, props, and other motionless items and could not present the performance as it was put on stage.  Moreover, as video-taping facilities were expensive in the past, not all stage performances were recorded and preserved.  Further, though some precious performances were preserved through recording, those video tapes could become obsolete either with the progress of storage technology or become deformed or demagnetized over time.  Therefore, preservation of precious data through digitalization technology is certainly necessary.
　　The value and significance of stage art can only be preserved through innovation and the diversified presentation of its trajectory.  With the development of digital media and confluence technology, the mere production of websites that focus on dramatic works is not enough.  Over time, moreover, the audience of traditional drama has become older and fewer in number.  Other than the construction of hardware such as the stage by the government, industry, and academia, it is important for traditional theater troupes to pass on the artistic heritage of drama to new generations through proper introduction and promotion, application of new technology, and preservation of contemporary classics programs and performance art.
　　Shih Hsin University has committed to a long-term effort in the research of local history and the preservation of local culture.  It works hard on such important missions as promoting Taiwanese culture and establishing cultural identity.  In 2002, it carried out a digitalization project for the content of World Daily, and in 2004 it participated in an NSC project of creative learning and set up a digital learning web site of “Taiwan’s relics and history.”  Through these projects, the university has accumulated much experience and ability in both digital learning and content preservation through digitalization.  Thus, in collaboration with Shih Hsin University, Guoguang Opera Company started its own digitalization project to fulfill its mission of preserving traditional arts and promoting national culture.