AI and Smart Data for Cultural Heritage Global Achievements and China’s Innovations

PART I Global creative approaches

1. Open data adoption across the humanities: insights from the Journal of Open Humanities Data

Barbara McGillivray, Daniele Borkowski, Andrea Farina, Simon Mahony, and Xiaoguang Wang

2. Agentic AI for Data Discovery in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Vassilis Routsis, Yujian Gan, Sagar Uprety, and Antonis Bikakis

3. Managing Cultural Heritage Resources with the Arches Platform: Smart Data for Resource Inventories and Concept-based Thesauri

Dennis Wuthrich, Philip Carlisle, and Kevin Kochanski

4. Smart data in collaborative web environments to access architectural and urban spaces images

Artur Simões Rozestraten, Giselle Beiguelman, and Vânia Mara Alves Lima

5. Collections as Data Infrastructures: Perspectives from Germany and Australia

Marco Humbel, Julianne Nyhan, and Nina Pearlman

6. Community archives in Thailand and digital technology for cultural heritage

Pimphot Seelakate

7. Enhancing Buddhist Scripture Research with Imperfect AI Outcomes: A Case Study of the SAT Text Database

Kiyonori Nagasaki

8. Consideration of Ethical Design in the Development of Cultural Heritage Initiatives

Lala Hajibayova

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

Li Niu, Chi Jin, Anrunze Li, and Rundong Hu

10. A Knowledge-enhanced Multi-modal Large Language Model for Chinese Guqin Subtractive Notation Interpretation

Cuijuan Xia

11. Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging of Intangible Cultural Heritage based on Large Language Models

Zhixiao Zhao and Dongbo Wang

12. Digital Recreation and Revitalisation: Fine-tuning Diffusion Models for the Intelligent Generation of Chinese Bronze Vessel Images

Xilong Hou and Xiaoguang Wang

13. Database construction and knowledge mining of ancient Chinese scientific and technological documents

Xiang Zheng and Mingjie Li

14. Value Addition-driven Ontology Modeling of Beijing Traditional Villages from the Perspective of Smart Metadata

Chunqiu Li, Jie Guo, Jiayi Wang, Wirapong Chansanam, and Chen Chen

15. Reconstruction and Enhancement of the Palace Museum’s Collection Data

Yipei Ye

Biography

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.