Semantic Technologies in Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities

Dear Colleagues,

Digital technologies are contributing to the evolution of cultural heritage. The transformation process in this sector is resulting in easier online access to cultural material for everybody. The Web allows people to publish, explain, debate, and share data at all scales, including local, national, and worldwide. Thanks to the Semantic Web, it is possible to formalize and preserve our cultural heritage and bring it to this digital decade. Additionally, the application of technology transfer models based on a co-development approach are applied to this new field, and several national and international research and innovation programmes (as, e.g., EUROPEANA, CLARIAH, NFDI, etc.) have been launched in these directions.

Digital Humanities aims to link these different subjects, such as historical information technology, information and computer science, and computational linguistics. It encompasses the use of digital resources in the humanities and related disciplines, as well as computer-based methods, tools, and applications.

Research in this field is supported by a range of increasingly sophisticated digital methods, such as automatic text and image analysis; linguistic text annotation; and data visualization through the adjustment, redefinition, and use of the already established methods of computational linguistics, machine learning, and information retrieval.

Therefore, different research methods can be used to develop and evaluate digital environments with a focus on the user-centered experience, along with technology transfer models.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to discuss the latest developments in these interdisciplinary fields in combination with the humanities. We invite the exchange of ideas among different communities involved in digital humanities, innovation management, educational science, human–computer interaction, machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, etc. This Special Issue is especially intended for researchers and practitioners working on multidisciplinary tasks.

Prof. Dr. Ernesto William De Luca
Guest Editor

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• personalized and user-adaptive systems
• semantic-based technologies in cultural heritage
• integration of metadata and semantic research into digital humanities
• user modeling
• human–computer interaction
• natural language processing
• technology transfer model based on the co-development
• technology management on cultural heritage