Novel technology use for digital transformation of cultural heritage

Novel technology use in Cultural Heritage (CH) research enables cultural sustainability.The aim of this paper is to reveal the current gaps, trends, and future prospects in novel technology use in CH research for Cultural Heritage 4.0 approaches.Data on the 'technology use in CH research' was collected from the Scopus database.This study adopted a scientometric analysis and mapping of bibliometric data.The scientometric analysis tool that is used in this research employ Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods.The results were discussed and synthesized in detail for the fulfilment of the research scope.The findings shed light on the divergence of research intentions in CH research field, which mainly focuses on data visualization, digital preservation, and remote sensing technologies while the next trending subjects may be digital reconstruction and artificial intelligence for CH.The novel technologies that are used in the digital transformation of CH were further discussed in detail.The paper concludes with prospects for the future research in the field.The paper may enable a higher understanding of the relationship between technologies and concepts.Thereby, CH research field may increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the project results by exploiting the suggested technologies.Because of the analyzing tool's shortfall, the language filter was used.The research input includes also limitations for publication type.These filters led to analyzing only English-written articles only.Future research may use all languages and all publication types for a broader perspective.