This volume explores the transformation of Digital Humanities (DH) research by AI and smart data, offering global perspectives on innovative methodologies and practices in cultural heritage, with contributions from Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
Moving from big data to smart data and into the AI era, DH researchers continue to develop new concepts, methodologies and practices. Smart data, which provides insights from trusted, contextualised, cognitive, predictive and consumable data at any scale, will continue to hold significant value in our field with AI providing additional support. Addressing both approach and practice, this volume presents the latest advancements and trends in AI and smart data for cultural heritage in DH. It also makes a valuable contribution to critical theories, methods and practices for leveraging these technologies in cultural heritage.
This book will be an essential reference for DH researchers, cultural heritage professionals and AI practitioners working at the intersection of technology and humanities scholarship.
This volume explores the transformation of Digital Humanities (DH) research by AI and smart data, offering global perspectives on innovative methodologies and practices in cultural heritage, with contributions from Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
PART I: Global creative approaches
1. Open data adoption across the
humanities: insights from the Journal of Open Humanities Data
2. Agentic AI
for Data Discovery in the Social Sciences and Humanities
3. Managing Cultural
Heritage Resources with the Arches Platform: Smart Data for Resource
Inventories and Concept-based Thesauri
4. Smart data in collaborative web
environments to access architectural and urban spaces images
5. Collections
as Data Infrastructures: Perspectives from Germany and Australia
6. Community
archives in Thailand and digital technology for cultural heritage
7.
Enhancing Buddhist Scripture Research with Imperfect AI Outcomes: A Case
Study of the SAT Text Database
8. Consideration of Ethical Design in the
Development of Cultural Heritage Initiatives PART II: Innovative practices in
China
9. From Dusty Pages to Living Essence: A Study on the Intelligent
Development of Documentary Heritage in the Era of AI
10. A Knowledge Enhanced
Multi-modal Large Language Model for Chinese Guqin Subtractive Notation
Interpretation
11. Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging of Intangible Cultural
Heritage Based on Large Language Models
12. Digital Recreation and
Revitalisation: Fine-tuning Diffusion Models for the Intelligent Generation
of Chinese Bronze Vessel Images
13. Database construction and knowledge
mining of ancient Chinese scientific and technological documents
14. Value
Addition Driven Ontology Modeling of Beijing Traditional Villages from the
Perspective of Smart Metadata
15. Reconstruction and Enhancement of the
Palace Museums Collection Data
Xiaoguang Wang is Dean and Professor in School of Information Management at Wuhan University, China. He is also the Director of Intelligent Computing Laboratory for Cultural Heritage and Centre for Digital Humanities at Wuhan University. His research interests are digital asset management, knowledge organisation, semantic publishing, and digital humanities.
Marcia Lei Zeng is Professor of Information Science at Kent State University (USA), with a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh (USA). Her research interests include knowledge organisation systems, metadata, semantic technologies, and digital humanities. She has authored six books and over 100 research papers.
Jin Gao is Co-Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), Lecturer in Digital Archives in the Department of Information Studies at UCL and Research Fellow at the V&A Museum. Her research interests focus on the Digital Humanities history, network analysis, digitisation, provenance studies, and data standards.
Ke Zhao is a PhD researcher at Wuhan University, China. She holds a PhD in Information Resource Management from Wuhan University, an MSc in Digital Humanities from UCL, a BFA and a BEng from China and South Korea. Her research interests focus on digital storytelling, digital humanities, and human-computer interaction.
