AI and Smart Data for Cultural Heritage

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.

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.