Cultural heritage, smart cities and digital data analytics

Abstract

This paper addresses the new opportunities and pitfalls of smart cities, with a particular view to the maintenance and use of historical-cultural resources in a city. The emergence and wide-spread application of digital technology appears to shape a new arena for urban cultural policy analysis, especially in the framework of big data in relation to social media information platforms. The paper argues that in a digital age new forms of data metrics policy are needed for an affective cultural heritage policy in cities.

Keywords

• smart cities
• intelligent cities
• cultural heritage
• urban cultural capital
• digital technology
• big data
• social media platforms