Big Data Analytics – Applications on Cultural Heritage

To gather, archive, and distribute the customs, monuments/artworks, and general civilization legacies that have been maintained over the years by humans, a highly diverse study and application field known as cultural heritage (CH) has emerged. This is a highly significant endeavor that is historically and pedagogically significant, useful in formal and informal learning settings; applicable to academic disciplines as well as the arts, humanities, and popular culture. Today’s digital media world provides countless opportunities to speed up the aforementioned procedures on both ends, i.e., CH content creation and “consumption,” by making use of modern networking utilities and their related possibilities for enhanced engagement. To get people interested in their CH initiatives, numerous museums and other art/cultural institutions have financed the creation of prominent digital applications that offer engaging narratives and widespread internet distribution. Personal artifacts of CH have been increasingly digitized and organized in larger-scale databases thanks to the widespread availability of mobile devices and services and the meteoric rise of so-called user-generated content (UGC).