Full Description
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.
Contents
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 Museum's Collection Data
