Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh

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Digital Cultural Heritage is an interdisciplinary research cluster within the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh, one of eight research clusters the institute lists, bringing together researchers from across the university who analyse and develop new approaches to the relationships between data, digital technology and cultural heritage, addressing both tangible and intangible heritage. Its work is organised into six research areas: copyright, intellectual property and access; digital documentation; tourism and heritage; geospatial data and heritage; digital engagement, learning and participation; and working with digital archives and collections. Eleven projects are listed under the cluster, among them handwriting recognition for Scottish Gaelic, computational approaches to exhibition scholarship, research on access to online cultural heritage, and heritage projects with museum, gallery, archive and university partners in the UK, Ireland and the United States, drawing on methods including text mining, geographic information systems, digital documentation and curatorial practice. In June 2026 the cluster co-organised GLAM Labs Futures, a two-day international event in Edinburgh held with the International GLAM Labs Community on the future of experimental reuse of digital collections and data. It also works with the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network, launched in 2016, whose membership spans the higher education and GLAM sectors.

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University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Partner Infrastructures

Creative Informatics

Creative Informatics is an ambitious research and development (R&D) programme based in Edinburgh, which aims to bring the city’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together, providi… read more about Creative Informatics

Edinburgh

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities was established in 1969 to promote interdisciplinary research in the arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh. IASH is t… read more about Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)

Edinburgh

Language Technology Group (LTG)

The Edinburgh Language Technology Group (LTG) is a research and development (R&D) group working in the area of natural language engineering since the early 1990s. It now functions cross-college a… read more about Language Technology Group (LTG)

Edinburgh

Partner Universities

Durham University

Edinburgh Napier University

Newcastle University

University of Strathclyde

Additional Partnerships

National Galleries of Scotland; National Museums of Scotland; Towards a National Collection; Dublin City University; University College Dublin; Indiana University