OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
ArtStory Beats: Highlighting Interactions between Visual Arts and Music with Storytelling	219
Web-Based BIM and GIS Technologies for Architectural Heritage Management: The Case of Pueblo de Esquivel, Spain	55
Intrinsic Shape Analysis in Archaeology: A Case Study on Ancient Sundials	53
A Comprehensive User Experience Analysis of Cultural Heritage Progressive Web App Using a Hybrid UEQ-IPA Approach	47
Virtual Reconstruction of the Deconstructed Heritage: The Former Building of the Belo Horizonte School of Medicine	38
A Self-Supervised Learning Approach for Pairwise Matching of Ancient Dunhuang Fragments	35
Immersed in the Mind of a Music Composer: A VR Memoryscape for Exploring Archival Material	33
Automatic Computation of Meaning in Authored Images Such as Artworks: A Grand Challenge for AI	31
Dancing through Time: An Interactive Installation to Discover a Dance Audiovisual Archive	31
Around the GLOBE: Numerical Aggregation Question-answering on Heterogeneous Genealogical Knowledge Graphs with Deep Neural Networks	28
Eyes on City Heritage: Enhancing Consultations with Accessible Eye-Tracking Data Visualization	28
Beautified QR Code for Museum Audiovisual Assistant System	27
Automatic Recognition and Digital Documentation of Cultural Heritage Hemispherical Domes using Images	27
Automatic Extraction of Specimens from Multi-specimen Herbaria	26
Full-Fledged Access and Usability of Content in a Digital Cultural Heritage Library: Approaches, Paradigms, and Implementation	23
Preserving Southern Thai Traditional Manora Dance Through Mobile Role-Playing Game Technology	22
Engaging Youth in Moorish Architectural Heritage through Virtual 3D Experience of the Bardo Palace of Algiers	22
Mobile Phone Color Accuracy for Practical Cultural Heritage Imaging	22
A Digital Approach to Revisiting the Byzantine Past of Al-Madrassa Al-Halawiyya in Aleppo	20
DoubleCheck: Designing Community-based Assessability for Historical Person Identification	20
Text Classification for Records Management	19
Automating the Extraction of Structured Data from Large Newspaper Corpora Using Layout Analysis, OCR and Generative AI	19
Revealing the Layers of History: Enriching Medieval Cultural Heritage 4D Models with Interactive Narratives	19
Improving the Understanding of Arabic Political Text Through Emotion Analysis and Text Mining	18
Toward Multi-area Contactless Museum Visitor Counting with Commodity WiFi	18

Virtual Empathy: Usability and Immersivity of a VR System for Enhancing Social Cohesion through Cultural Heritage	18
New Perspectives and Usual Challenges: Present Technologies for Document Management in Architectural Heritage Conservation-Restoration Works	18
Extracting Linear Features in Archaeological Contexts	17
Coloration Parsing and Transfer Design of Han Folk Costumes	17
From Scenes to Places: Enhancing Film Exploration through the RevIS Ontology-based consultation App	16
Towards the Virtual Reconstruction of Physically Lost Altarpieces through Differentiable Rendering	16
The Problem of Introduction of Digital Technologies in the Performing Arts	16
Automatic Extraction and Linkage between Textual and Spatial Data for Architectural Heritage	16
Erratum: Knowledge Graphs vs. Large Language Models: Competitors or Partners in Supporting Virtual Museums	15
Exploring the Impact of an IoT-based Game on the Experience of Visitors at a Natural Science Museum	15
A Computational Framework for Organizing and Querying Cultural Heritage Archives	15
Detection of Cracks in Cultural Heritage Buildings Using UAV Photogrammetry-Based Digital Twin	15
Vested Authorities, Emergent Brokers and User Archivists: Power and Legitimacy in Information Provision	15
Semantic and Geometric Datasets Creation for Monument Analysis: A Framework for Expert-Guided Annotation and AI Models	15
MaDiH (): A Transnational Approach to Building Digital Cultural Heritage Capacity	14
An Extended Reality Platform for Cultural Gaming: Enabling Interactive Narratives in Spatial Contexts	14
How to Limit Label Dissipation in Neural-network Validation: Exploring Label-free Early-stopping Heuristics	14
Application and Evaluation of Stable Diffusion-Based Generative AI in the Digital Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage Patterns	14
Differences in Heritage Tourism Experience between VR and AR: A Comparative Experimental Study Based on Presence and Authenticity	14
Introduction to the Special Issue “Applying Innovative Technologies to Digitised and Born-Digital Archives”	13
Tracking Museums’ Online Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study in Museum Analytics	13
Comparative Study of HMD-based Virtual and Augmented Realities for Immersive Museums: User Acceptance, Medium, and Learning	12
On the Automatic Recognition of Jeongganbo Music Notation: Dataset and Approach	12
Story Inspiration Station: Deeper Engagement with Museum Objects via Participatory Interpretation	12
Beyond the Item: Digitising Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in the Natural History Museum Vienna and beyond, the bITEM Project	12
Integrating Textual-Based and Visual-Based Features in Poem Detection for Digitized Historical Newspaper Document Images	12
Tangible User Interfaces for Enhancing User Experience of Virtual Reality Cultural Heritage Applications for Utilization in Educational Environment	11
An Automatic Chinaware Fragments Reassembly Method Framework Based on Linear Feature of Fracture Surface Contour	11
Enhancing Online Accessibility of Digitized Artifacts from Small Museum Collections in Cyprus: An Empirical Evaluation of the CyprusArk Solution	11
Multi-Temporal Image Analysis for Preventive Conservation of Historical Musical Instruments	11
Designing an Augmented Experience for a Music Archive: What does the Audience Need Beyond the Sense of Hearing?	11
Towards Enhancing Virtual Museums by Contextualizing Art through Interactive Visualizations	11
Performing a Systematic Literature Review on the Implementation of the CIDOC CRM in Cultural Heritage	11
Quantitative Evaluation of Cultural Heritage Development in Ancient Towns from the Perspective of Tourist Experience	11
The Effect of Muqarnas on Acoustic Quality of Traditional Turkish Bath Interior Space	10
New Method for Museum Archiving: “Quantitative Analysis Meets Art History”	10
O-City: Implementation of an Innovative Multimedia Platform for Promoting Orange Economy	10
LetterSampo–Historical Letters on the Semantic Web: A Framework and Its Application to Publishing and Using Epistolary Data	10
Inpainting Digital Dunhuang Murals with Structure-Guided Deep Network	10
Comparing Heuristic Rules and Masked Language Models for Entity Alignment in the Literature Domain	10
Technologically Mediated Experiences of Visitors to the Frederic Chopin Museum: Postphenomenological Perspective on Touchscreens Affordances	10
TTProfiler: Types and Terms Profile Building for Online Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs	10
Using Semantic Web to Create and Explore an Index of Toponyms Cited in Medieval Geographical Works	9
A Low-Cost Method and Surveying of the Historical Structures from Digital Resources	9
Research on the Effect Evaluation and the Time-series Evolution of Public Culture's Internet Communication under the Background of New Media: Taking the Information Dissemination of Red Tourism Cultur	9
The Value of Preexisting Structures for Digital Access: Modelling the Resolutions of the Dutch States General	9
New AIR for the Archaeological Process? The Use of 3D Web Semantic for Publishing Archaeological Reports	9
Evaluating and Adapting Image Retrieval for Visual Localization: A Study on Monumental Architecture	8
Procedural Modeling Based Shape Grammar as a Key to Generating Digital Architectural Heritage	8
Design and User Experience of a Hybrid Mixed Reality Installation that Promotes Tinian Marble Crafts Heritage	8

Multivocal Exhibition: Exploring Cultural Perspectives through User-Curated Art Exhibitions	8
Augmented Reality Supported Learning for Cultural Heritage of Taiwan in On-Site and Off-Site Environments: The Case of a Daxi Old Street	8
A User Perspective on HTR Methods for the Automatic Transcription of Rare Scripts: The Case of Codex Runicus	8
A Computer-Aided Design Tool for Muqarnas	8
An Evaluation of Graph Databases and Object-Graph Mappers in CIDOC CRM-Compliant Digital Archives	8
A Deep Transfer Learning Approach for Writer Identification in Greek Papyri	8
“The Spanish Cathedral”, a Prototype of Mobile Application for the Access to the Religious Cultural Heritage of Gothic Hispanic Cathedrals	7
Describing Inscriptions of Ancient Italy. The ItAnt Project and Its Information Encoding Process	7
Integrating Citizen Experiences in Cultural Heritage Archives with a Linked Non-Open Data Hub	7
Designing User Interaction with Linked Data in Historical Archives	7
Applying Cinematic Virtual Reality with Adaptability to Indigenous Storytelling	7
Networks of Migrants’ Narratives: A Post-authentic Approach to Heritage Visualisation	7
Connecting Contemporary Industry and Society with Cultural Heritage Through Semantic Tools for Searching and Visualizing the Content of an Archive that Preserves the Valencian Design Legacy	7
An Evaluation of LLM-based Chatbots for Enhancing the Visitor’s User Experience at Cultural Exhibits	7
The Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach	7
Depth-of-Field Segmentation for Near-lossless Image Compression and 3D Reconstruction	7
Digital Cultural Items in Space: The Impact of Contextual Information on Presenting Digital Cultural Items	7
A Ding Ontology of Chinese Bronze	7
Efficient and User-Friendly Visualization of Neural Relightable Images for Cultural Heritage Applications	7
Understanding Key Building Attributes Influencing Flood Vulnerability in Masonry Structures after the 2023 Kakhovka Dam Breach in Ukraine	7
Defining Map System for Collaborative Map Creation and Data Reuse	7
Expanding Perspectives to Improve Access to Visual Archives through Multimodal Image Enrichment	7