A Visual System for Exploring Digital Cultural Relics and Generating Narrations

The development of digital humanities provides the entrance and the support for exploring cultural relic data. As the manager of exhibitions, curators would like to create such a tool to help them carrying out a reasonably content curation. However, a challenge is how to connect the separate cultural relics from the perspective of narration. Knowledge map could connect cultural relics as entities and make them associated. In this paper, we combine the cultural knowledge map and visualization, and realize a visual system to assist curators. The system supports experts conducting query and theme-associated exploration on cultural relics. By calculating the imagery similarity, a group of clustered cultural relics will be recommended. Besides, we design flexible interactions to generate the cultural relic network with narrative ideas from multiple perspectives. Thematic words are dynamically extracted from the narrative network for intuitive semantic support. We used the data from the Hunan museum and the Shanxi museum to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of our system.