Heritage transformations

This special theme examines the dynamic relationships between production, availability, and usage of Big Data, laying out a research agenda for digital heritage at time ‘data turn’. Over past 15 years, proliferation data has been generated by ‘ecosystems distributed practices’ enacted co-working bodies, cultural identities, organisational workflows, software, application programming interfaces, etc. The authors articles commentaries in this collection explore three macro-dimensions along which we can map transformations Data ecologies: (a) ontologies or as datified resources, (b) interactions (c) methodologies epistemologies.